Dr. Julien Ruffault - CV
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MAIN SKILLS
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Research themes : fire regimes, process-based modelling of vegetation functionning, climate change
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Author of 33 publications in peer-reviewed international scientific journals
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
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Current Position: Postdoctoral research fellow (From January 2022)
URFM, INRAE, Avignon, France
Mentors: Jean-Luc Dupuy, François Pimont, Thomas Opitz
Drivers and predictions of Extreme Wildfire events in Europe
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Postdoctoral research fellow (September 2019-September 2021)
URFM, INRAE, Avignon, France
Mentors: Hervé Cochard, Nicolas Martin-StPaul
Tree desiccation and mortality during hot droughts
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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
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Postdoctoral research fellow (August 2014-December 2014)
CEFE, Montpellier, France
Mentor: Florent Mouillot
Real-time prediction of wildfire danger in South America
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Ph.D (2008-2012)
CEFE, Montpellier, France
Mentors: Florent Mouillot, Serge Rambal
Drought and wildfires in Southern France: A regional modeling approach
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PEER-REVIEW WORK
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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)