Suzanne Leroy
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Name Suzanne Alice Ghislaine LEROY
Field palaeoclimates, past environmental changes, palynology, past natural hazards, science management
Languages fluent: French, English; basic: German, Dutch, Castillan.
Present position membre associé at the MMSH in Aix-en-Provence, and Honorary Research Fellow in Environmental Sciences at the University of Liverpool
Contact: suzleroy@hotmail.com
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Educational background
\- 27.03.1990: Doctorate in sciences at Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 'Paléoclimats plio-pléistocènes en Catalogne et en Languedoc d'après la palynologie de formations lacustres' (LPGD).
\- 1986: Diploma of 'Cycle inférieur en espagnol de la Chambre de Commerce', Brussels.
\- 01.1984: General Administration for Cooperation and Development Diploma (professional training to work in developing countries), Belgian Foreign Office, Brussels.
\- 1980-1982: Licence in Geographical Sciences, at Université Catholique of Louvain, Belgium. Thesis in Biogeography: 'Préliminaires à l'étude des distributions écologiques et géographiques du complexe spécifique Camisia segnis (Acari, Oribatida)'. (Distinction)
\- 1978-1980: Candidature in Geographical Sciences, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium.
\- 1978: Proficiency, diploma of English Language, in 10 months, Cambridge, U.K.
Employment
Honorary Research fellow
\- Mars 2018– current: collaborateur bénévole au LAMPEA de la Maison Mediterranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence, France.
\- Oct 2017-Sept 2018: vacataire at University of Aix-Marseille, France
\- 1 Dec 2016-31 Nov. 2017: collaborateur bénévole au CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France
\- 1 October 2016 - 30 September 2019, Honorary Research Fellow in Environmental Sciences at the University of Liverpool, U. With F. Marret
Professor of Geography and Earth Sciences at Brunel University, London, UK
\- 2014-2016, Chair at the BioSciences department
\- 2007-2014, Chair at the Institute for the Environment (strategic research institute), leader of the “Catastrophic and Environmental Change” Research Group and head of post-graduate research students
\- 2000-2007: Chair at the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences and leader of the “Catastrophic and Environmental Change” Research Group.
\- adoption leave from March to mid-Aug. 2004.
Lecturer at the centre for palaeoecology, at Queen's University, Belfast, UK
\- Research on palaeoclimates from Holocene lakes of the Middle East, as well on Irish lakes.
\- 01.10.1998 - 31.12.1999: Lecturer B in palaeoecology and environment reconstruction, confirmed in post.
\- 01.03.1995-01.10.1998: NI Dev R lecturer B in palaeoecology and environment reconstruction.
Management of past climate change research programs, Switzerland
\- 01.11.1993 to 28.02.1995: Associate director of the core project office of PAGES/IGBP (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme) at University of Berne, in charge of the information and organisation of contacts between international specialists. Establishment of research and recommend implementation plan for funding agencies. Editor of PAGES Newsletter. Office funded by US NSF and Swiss NSF.
Study of abrupt climate fluctuations, not directly linked to astronomical parameters and attributed to the postglacial reorganisation of the atmospheric and oceanic circulations
\- the Lateglacial in the yearly sediments of Holzmaar, Eifel, Germany.
\- the last climate cycle in Vico maar, Latium, Italy and the Heinrich and Dansgaard-Oeschger events.
\- the last 1000 years in a lake of Mecklenburg, N.-E. Germany and the beginning of industrialisation.
\- 04.1991 to 31.10.1993: post-doctoral position funded by SPPS-Global Change-PAGES project, at Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Holocene infilling of the Aude laguna (S. France) and the human impact
\- 12.1992: "vacataire", laboratory of Palynology of Montpellier, France.
Global changes over the last 30 thousands years
\- 11 to 12.1990: post-doctoral position on EEC contract: EPOCH, UCL, Belgium.
Pliocene climates of the Sahara from ODP and DSDP marine cores, NW of Africa.
\- 04 to 10.1990 and 01 to 03.1991: post-doctoral position in the climate project of BMFT, at the Institute of Palynology, Göttingen, and Institute of Geology of Kiel, Germany.
Palynological evidence of Azolla nilotica Dec. in Recent Holocene of eastern Nile Delta, and its environments
\- 10 to 12.1986 and 10 to 11.1987: short-term visiting fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA. Laboratories of sedimentology and paleobotany.
Plio-Pleistocene palaeoclimates in Catalunia and Languedoc according to palynology of lacustrine formations
\- Research fellow from 09.1982 to 03.1990 including:
\* 12.1987 to 05.1989: Research fellowship from EEC at Laboratoire de Palynologie de Montpellier, France.
\* 10.1983 to 09.1986: Research fellowship from 'Institut pour l'Encouragement de la Recherche Scientifique en Industrie et Agriculture' (IRSIA), Belgium.
Management of environment research programs
\- 09.1982 to 02.1983: Administrative training at the Commission of the EC, Brussels, section D.G.XII-G-1: benthic ecology.
Publications
Vegetation history and sea level changes at the terminals of the Gorgan and Tammisheh Walls (SE Caspian Sea)20th INQUA Congress, Jul 2019, Dublin, Ireland
Conference papers
hal-02352311v1
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