CNRS, France

Member at Large

I was born in France and started learning Geography at the University in Paris in 1993, and quickly shifted to physical geography, before affirming a preference for geomorphology. After my master degree, where I studied coastal geomorphology in French Brittany beaches, I decided to pursue my researches on slope processes in polar environments. In 1997 I joined the University of Clermont-Ferrand to start a PhD which led me to Northwestern Iceland. Since then, I have not left Iceland, or, more exactly, I am always back to Iceland. My research interest deals with geodynamics, natural hazard and risk, at present-time but also during the Holocene. Since 2006, I am researcher at CNRS, the largest scientific organisation in France, still working on snow avalanche, debris flow, rock fall, landslide impacts in Iceland.