Fellowships and projects funding

Fellowships

 2008-2010 Postdoctoral research fellowship, French Research Agency (ANR)

 2007 Sportswoman and scientific expedition : sampling of Eurasian mosses (pollen traps) along a 12,000 km-Transect from Lyon (France) to Beijing (China) done by bicycle. Winner of the Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation price. Sponsored by the explorer J.-L. Etienne 30,000€

 2003-2007 Ph.D. fellowship, French Ministry for of Higher Education and Research


Projects funding


 2010-2013 Humans and environments in mountainous habitats, the case of Armenia. French-Armenian International Associated Laboratory, Principal Investigators (PIs) : P. Avetisyan and C. Chataigner

Participation : field and running costs on holocene cores 60,000€

 2007-2010 Changes in the Holocene environments, climate and human societies as reflected by lake and marine records from the Central Mediterranean. ANR, PIs : M. Magny, N. Combourieu Nebout

Participation : Postdoctoral research (palynologic analyses and fields) 209,070€

 2006-2008 Human society, climate and environmental changes during the Holocene around the Strait of Ormuz. ANR, PIs : S. Cleuziou, A.-M. Lézine and E. Fouache. Participation : postdoctoral research (palynologic analyses)

 2005-2007 Quaternary environments of the Lesser Caucasus : volcanoes, glaciations and humans. CNRS-Eclipse program, PIs : P. Roiron and C. Chataigner

Participation : field and running costs on an Early Pleistocene section 60,000€


Academic visits and long-lasting stays abroad


 2007 (9 months) Mosses sampling through Eurasia (Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizstan, China), on a bicycle

 2001 Canada : 1 year at the Québec University at Montreal