Climate theses

If you are interested in joining our team on a doctoral project, please contact the scientific members here.

Most projects start in spring but can also be opened at other times of the year.

Climate theses 2023- 2026

Paul BOTTÉ

Reconstructing the evolution of Eocene palaeoclimates in southern Eurasia using geological and geochemical tools to better understand past mammal dispersals

Supervisor: Alexis Licht (CEREGE)

Yohan LICHTERFELD

Reconstitution of modes of climate variability in the Indian Ocean on seasonal and interannual scales: calibration and application to the Pleistocene

Supervisors: Guillaume Leduc and Clara Bolton (CEREGE).

Vincent GUARINOS

Oxygenation variability in the Mediterranean Sea during the last two interglacial periods

Supervisors: Kazuyo Tachikawa and Tom Chalk (CEREGE).

Virgile DERVIS

Sediment dynamics of the Middle Durance over the course of cycles
glacial/interglacial: paleoclimatic, tectonic and environmental implications

Supervisors: Alexis Nutz and Magali Rizza (CEREGE), Hélène Tissoux (BRGM)

Erwan PINEAU

Stability/Instability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: What can we learn from the past and what have been the consequences for the oceanic carbon sink?

Supervisors: Yannick Donnadieu (CEREGE), Camille Lique (LOPS, Brest)

Climate theses 2022- 2025

Lou SPANNEUT

Elucidating feeding behaviour in the face of climate change during the Late Pleistocene. Development of an innovative biomolecular approach.

Supervisors: Thibaut Devièse (CEREGE), Gwenaëlle Goude (LAMPEA)

Charlotte MENTION

Respective roles of climatic and anthropogenic changes on the opening of the African rainforest during the recent Holocene: a multi-proxy analysis combining ecology, isotope geochemistry and modelling

Supervision: Christelle Hély (ISE-M) and Julie Aleman (CEREGE).

Perrine POIRIER

Impact of global climatic and tectonic forcing on landscape dynamics in the Turkana Depression (Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia) during the Plio-Pleistocene: what local responses to global changes?

Supervision: Alexis LICHT (CEREGE) and Alexis NUTZ (CEREGE).

Guillaume LASSUS

Design and development of an automated microscopy system applying the microfluidic approach for the identification of marine plankton and species sorting of coccolithophore microfossils

Supervision: Luc Beaufort (CEREGE)

Climate theses 2021 - 2024

Anaëlle ALCAINO

Spatial and temporal dynamics of microplastics in the bay of Marseille: experimental approach and link with modelling

Supervision: Laurence Vidal (CEREGE) and Laetitia Licari (CEREGE).

Climate theses 2020 - 2023

Souleyman ABBA

Hydrological, geochemical and isotopic functioning of the volcanic lakes of the Adamoua plateau (North Cameroon)

Supervisors: Bruno Hamelin (CEREGE), Pierre Deschamps (CEREGE), Yannick Garcin (AMU) and Benjamin Ngounou Ngatcha (University of NGAOUNDERE, Cameroon)

Gabriel BERA

Recent geochronology of glaciers in Central Asia

Supervisors: Franck Lavigne (LGP-CNRS), Vincent Rinterknecht (CEREGE)

Joanna CHARTON

Paleoclimatic reconstruction for the last 40,000 years from glacial chronologies on the Kerguelen Archipelago, established using cosmogenic chlorine-36 nuclide

Supervisors: Irene Schimmelpfennig (CEREGE) and Vincent Jomelli (CEREGE)

Mélanie GUARDIOLA

Hydroclimatic dynamics and carbon cycle in the central Congo basin during the Holocene (ORACLE)

Supervisors: Yannick Garcin (CEREGE) and Edouard Bard (CEREGE)

Elise LUCIANI

Dynamics of the Central American monsoon during the Late Pleistocene: contributions of molecular biomarker isotopy

Supervisors: Guillaume Leduc (CEREGE) and Edouard Bard (CEREGE)

Quentin PILLOT

Ecological and climatic evolution during the Late Miocene, a cross-section of marine data and numerical modelling of the Earth System

Supervisors: Baptiste Suchéras-Marx (CEREGE) and Yannick Donnadieu (CEREGE)

Climate theses 2019 - 2022

Michael Babatunde ADEBAYO

Dynamics of the Equatorial Ocean during Plio-Pleistocene Warm Periods by Automated Analysis of Planktonic Foraminifera

Supervisors: Thibault de Garidel-Thoron (CEREGE), Clara Bolton (CEREGE)

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