Invited speakers

 Peter Braesicke

Peter Braesicke is professor at the KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), his main scientific interest is in the area of interactions and feedbacks between atmospheric composition and climate.

He is chair of the European Climate Research Alliance (ECRA, http://www.ecra-climate.eu), scientific coordinator of the Helmholtz-Climate-Initiative Regional Climate Change (REKLIM, https://www.reklim.de/en). For the KIT, he is contributing to an initiative that aims at creating a national research data infrastructure for Earth system sciences (NFDI4Earth). 

Peter Braesicke in his keynote will provide a scope of researches propose by the ECRA.

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Hervé Le Treut

Hervé Le Treut, member of the scientific committee of Le climat en questions website, is a Professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, former director of the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute (IPSL) and member of the French Academy of Sciences.

His work focuses on the numerical modelling of the climate system and the understanding of the radiative perturbations of the climate, in particular the role of the additional greenhouse effect linked to human activities.

He is also interested in the impacts of climate change and the analysis of associated environmental risks. He is editor of Chapter 1 of Volume 2 of the IPCC 5th Report. He is the author or co-author of several books for the general public, the latest of which deals with adaptation to climate change in New Aquitaine.

Hervé Le Treut in his keynote will provide a state of knowledge of Earth climate changes

Rosana Lopez Rodriguez

Rosana López, Ecophysiologist, Assistant Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain. Her research experience has been focused on forest species adaptation to drought, interaction between drought and Dutch elm disease and in the last years also to the improvement of the resin tapping sector in southern Europe. From 2015 to 2018 she held a Marie Curie grant in two centers of research excellence, the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment of the Western Sydney University (Australia) and INRA Clermont-Ferrand (France) where she worked with a wide group of researchers in the fields of ecology, plant physiology and modelling in deciphering the physiological mechanism leading to plant mortality and quantifying the degree plasticity of plant hydraulic traits.

The ultimate goal of her researches is to provide scientists and managers with information that helps predicting and mitigating the impact of climate change on land use in general and on forests in particular. Her scientific interest is to advance in the knowledge of the mechanisms that regulate the
acclimatization of forest species to abiotic and biotic factors.

Rosana Lopez Rodriguez in her keynote will present the current state of impacts of climate changes in Earth vegetation in general and the impact of drought on forests in particular.

Claudio Paniconi

Claudio Paniconi is a professor at INRS-ETE, Université du Québec, Canada. His primary research is in hydrological modeling. He is a co-developer of several widely known simulation models including CATHY (CATchment HYdrology), CODESA (COupled variable DEnsity and SAturation), and hsB (hillslope-storage Boussinesq). The models have been applied to address problems of climate change impact assessment, groundwater recharge estimation, seawater intrusion analyses, and many other challenges associated with water resources management.

Claudio Paniconi in his keynote will provide an introduction to hydrological modelling.

 Philippe Quevauviller

Philippe Quevauviller has been researcher in oceanography in the years 1983-1989 at the University of Bordeaux (France) in cooperation with the Portuguese Environment Ministry in Lisbon (Portugal) and the Dutch Ministry for Public Works in The Hague. He obtained two PhDs (oceanography and chemistry) and the highest French University degree (HDR). He started his career at the European Commission in 1989 as scientific officer at DG Research, then as policy officer at DG Environment, and moved to the DG Home Secure Societies Programme in 2013. Besides his work at the European Commission, he is also Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and a scientific writer and editor.

Philippe Quevauviller in his keynote will provide the Horizon Europe research program and its expectations of impacts of projects regarding adaptation to climate changes and extremes.

Research Programming and Policy Officer

European Commission, Brussels

Denis Salles

Denis Salles is Director of Research at INRAE in the New Aquitaine Bordeaux center, he is in charge of the "Environment, Actors and Territorial Dynamics" team in the ETBX unit. He directs research in the sociology of the environment and public action on the anticipation of societies in the face of climate change, on modes of water governance, on consultation, on mechanisms for making users aware of their responsibilities, and on participatory science mechanisms. He is Deputy Director of Labex COTE (www.cote.fr) in charge of transfer and valorisation. He coordinates the SHS component of the VitiREV project (Innovating for environmentally friendly territories) in New Aquitaine. He participates in the "Enabling societal transformation" action group of the JPI Climate. He is a member of the Regional Scientific Committee on Climate Change http://www.acclimaterra.fr and a member of the scientific council of the Quebec climate change consortium OURANOS.

Denis Salles in his keynote will present the role of governance in sustainable adaptation to water resource variability.

Nathalie Ollat

Nathalie Ollat received a Ph.D. in agronomic sciences from Montpellier Supagro (France), with emphases in viticulture and plant physiology. Dr. Ollat joined the INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research) viticulture research center in Bordeaux (France) in 1988, to implement studies on training systems. After dealing with berry development during her Ph-D, she initiated, in the early 2000s, a research program on the interactions of grapevine rootstocks with biotic and abiotic factors.Dr. Ollat and her research team have studied the impact of rootstocks on grapevine nutrition, water intake, vine growth and yields, providing a body of knowledge useful to breed new rootstocks. Since 2010, Dr. Ollat expanded her research efforts to focus on the impact of climate change on grape growing. She currently co-directs the “LACCAVE” program on long-term impacts and adaptations to climate change in viticulture and oenology in France (2012-2021). In April, 2018, she was promoted to the position of director of the Research Unit for Vine Ecophysiology and Functional Genomics (UMR EGFV) within the University of Bordeaux (ISVV: Institute for Sciences of Vine and Wine).