Dr. Julien Ruffault - CV
MAIN SKILLS
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Research themes : fire regimes, fire-vegetation interactions, process-based modelling of vegetation functionning, climate change
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Author of 40 publications in peer-reviewed international scientific journals
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Current Position: Researcher at INRAE (2024)
Postdoctoral research fellow (2022-2024)
URFM, INRAE, Avignon, France
Mentors: Jean-Luc Dupuy, François Pimont, Thomas Opitz
Drivers and predictions of Extreme Wildfire events in Europe
Postdoctoral research fellow (September 2019-September 2021)
URFM, INRAE, Avignon, France
Mentors: Hervé Cochard, Nicolas Martin-StPaul
Tree desiccation and mortality during hot droughts
Postdoctoral research fellow (October 2018-March 2019)
Labex OT-MED, Aix-en-Provence, France
Mentors: Ricardo Trigo, Thomas Curt, Vincent Moron
Projecting fire danger in the Mediterranean basin
Postdoctoral research fellow (January 2015-July-2017)
Labex OT-MED, Aix-en-Provence, France
Mentors: Ricardo Trigo, Thomas Curt and Vincent Moron
Meteorological drivers of wildfire activity in France
Postdoctoral research fellow (August 2014-December 2014)
CEFE, Montpellier, France
Mentor: Florent Mouillot
Real-time prediction of wildfire danger in South America
Ph.D (2008-2012)
CEFE, Montpellier, France
Mentors: Florent Mouillot, Serge Rambal
Drought and wildfires in Southern France: A regional modeling approach
PEER-REVIEW WORK
Journal Reviewer (>50 manuscripts) for Nature Communications, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Global Change Biology, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, New Phytologist, International Journal of Wildland Fires, Anthropocene, Regional Environmental Change, Environmental Earth Sciences, International Journal of Climatology, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Land degradation and development, Journal of Environmental Management, Fire, Forests, Remote sensing, Climate Resilience and Sustainability and Science of the Total Environment.
Grant reviewer for the French national research agency (ANR) and German research funding Programme (DFG)