Dr. Cecile Blanchet

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Dr. Cecile Blanchet
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0000-0002-7146-705X
Building F, Room 455 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam

Function and Responsibilities:

Senior researcher (permanent since August 2024)

Research Interests:

During my career, I have focused on high-resolution (annually-) laminated records as archives of environmental changes, either on the continent or in the ocean. I am particularly interested in the relationships between the terrestrial and marine realms, how they influence each other and how initial forcing are either exemplified or buffered by these complex interactions.

I mostly focus on the Quaternary and the role of interactions in the climate-environment-human nexus are one of my main research interests. In that respect, I value co-operation with other disciplines (such as with archaeologists and social scientists) to build more comprehensive pictures of human-climate interactions.

I study sedimentary processes along the source-to-sink pathway: sediment generation and transportation, response of ecosystems to climatic changes, sediment deposition and post-depositional alteration through diagenesis.

My main research focuses are:

  • Quaternary record of paleoenvironmental changes
  • Sediments as high-resolution climate archives
  • Ocean-continent linkages
  • Relationships between climate, erosion, vegetation and precipitation (threshold & feedback processes)
  • Climate-environment-human nexus

Career:

  • 2018-now Research scientist at GFZ (80-100%)
    • Research scientist in the STEEPclim project, PI of the Rain6K project, Co-PI of the Warm-Hydro project
    • Scientific coordinator of the Varved Sediment Database (VARDA)
    • PI of the PRO-HYDRO project (Hydroclimates of the Dead Sea during the early Holocene) - funded by the DFG
    • Reintegration grant “Annual Nile floods during the African Wet Period” – funded by GFZ Potsdam
  • 2017–2018 Assistant Professor (Freie Universität Berlin) (6 months, 50 %)

Time outside academia (5 years):

  • 2015–2017 Project manager for the Green-Win Horizon 2020 project (Global Climate Forum Berlin) (2 years, 50 %)
  • 2013-2015 Family leave, further training “Project manager wind energy” (Proventus)

Previous postdoc positions:

  • 2010-2013 Postdoc fellow GEOMAR Kiel & NIOZ Texel (3 years, 80 %)
    • Permanent position for the project HOSINIL (Past Climates and Environments in the Nile Basin) – funded by DFG
    • PI-Project IODP Bering Sea (Paleoceanography of the Bering Sea during the Last Glacial Cycle) – funded by the DFG
  • 2008-2010 Post-doc in the West Nile Delta project (GEOMAR Kiel (sponsored by RWE-Dea) (1 year, 50 %)
  • 2006-2008 Post-doc in the research training group EUROPROX (University of Bremen) (2 years, 100 %)

Education:

  • 2002–2006 PhD in Earth Sciences, CEREGE, Université Aix-Marseille III

“Palaeoclimatic and palaeoceanographic changes at the Northwest American margin during the last glacial-interglacial cycle”

Supervision: Prof. Nicolas Thouveny & Prof. Laurence Vidal

  • 2001–2002 Master's in Earth Sciences CEREGE, Université Aix-Marseille III

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