Thematic of researches

Vegetation history

Fire history

Forest ecology
Disturbances ecology
Human/environment interactions

Naturalness assessment

Historical pollutions

Methods

Charcoal analysis
Palynology
Dendroecology
Forest measurements

July 2020 : HDR (Etude des trajectoires écologiques des socio-écosystèmes : vers des approches rétro-fonctionnelles intégrées) https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/LIEC-UL/tel-02979132v1

Since 2015 (Sep.)

Lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Continental Environments (LIEC) of the University of Lorraine, at Metz (France)

2014 (Dec.)-2015 (July)

Invited postdoc at the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry of the University of Padova (Italy), in collaboration with Dr. Emanuele Lingua.

2012-2014

Postdoc research at the Institute for Ecosystem research of the CAU Kiel, in the research program Holocene fire history in Northern Germany, inferred from peat and sediment charcoal records with various spatial resolution in selected areas of Schleswig-Holstein Funded by the German foundation of Research (DFG-Projekt NE970/9-1) to Dr. Oliver Nelle and Dr. Marie-Josée Nadeau.

2008-2011

PhD research  binational affiliation at the University of Kiel (Germany) & Aix-Marseille University (France). Granted by the graduate school Human Development in Landscapes of the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany: Reconstruction of fire and forest history on several investigation sites in Germany, based on long and shortterm investigations  Multiproxy approaches contributing to naturalness assessment on a local scale."

• Publications internationales

GOCEL-CHALTE D., GUÉROLD F., KNAPP H., ROBIN V., 2020. Anthracological analyses of charcoal production sites at a high spatial resolution: the role of topography in the historical distribution of tree taxa in the northern Vosges mountains France. Vegetation History And Archaeobotany     .  [doi]

GOURIVEAU E., RUFFALDI P., DUCHAMP L., ROBIN V., SCHNITZLER A., WALTER-SIMONNET A.-V., 2020. Holocene vegetation history in the Northern Vosges Mountains (NE France): Palynological geochemical and sedimentological data. Holocene     Réf. HAL: hal-02482492.  [doi]

ROBIN V., NELLE O., TALON B., POSCHLOD P., SCHWARTZ D., BAL M.-C., ALLEE P., VERNET J.-L., DUTOIT T., 2018. A comparative review of soil charcoal data: Spatiotemporal patterns of origin and long-term dynamics of Western European nutrient-poor grasslands Holocene 28, 1313-1324.  [doi]

ROBIN V., NADEAU M.-J., GROOTES P.-M., BORK H.-R., NELLE O., 2016. Paleobotanical and climate data support the plausibility of temperate trees spread into central Europe during the Late Glacial New Phytologist 212 (1), 19-21.  [doi]

ROBIN V., NADEAU M.-J., GROOTES P.-M., BORK H.-R., NELLE O., 2016. Too early and too northerly: evidence of temperate trees in northern Central Europe during the Younger Dryas New Phytologist 212 (1), 259-268.  [doi]