Education and work experience
Trainings
2006 : PhD Thesis at the Faculty of Geoscience and Environnement
Title of the thesis : "Le pergélisol dans les terrains sédimentaires à forte déclivité: distribution, régime thermique et instabilités"
Director : Jörg Winistörfer
1999 : Licence ès Lettres (Geography, Geology, Computer science and Mathematical methods), University of Lausanne
Work experience
Lecturer, Institute of Geography, Institute of Geography and Sustainability, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne
2010
Postdoc (Maître assistant) at the Institute of Geography, University of Lausanne
2006
- 2010
Representative for PERMOS (Permafrost Monitoring Switzerland) at the University of Lausanne. Member of the scientific committee since 2010.
2001
Position in geomatics by Microgis SA
2001
- 2002
Assistant and PhD student at the Institute of Geography, University of Lausanne
2000
- 2005
Stage in the forestry ingenier office Patrick Chevrier SA
2000
- 2000
Others activities
Member of the committee of the Swiss Geomorphological Society (SGmS)
Competences
Alpine geomorphology
Mapping, internal characterizing and modelling of mountain permafrost
Study and monitoring of creeping mountain permafrost landforms (rock glaciers, moraines)
Thermal and geoelectrical monitoring of alpine permafrost
Study of sediment transfer processes in moutain slopes
Permafrost-related processes understanding
Geomorphological mapping
Methods
- Geoelectrical and seismic methods
- Thermal methods (BTS, continuous logging at the surface and in boreholes)
- Differential GPS
- Digital photogrammetry
- Terrestrial laser scanning (Lidar)
- Space-borne synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR)
- Field and GIS geomorphological mapping