Christine ADONGO PhD Student INSHS, UMR 8177 EHESS-IIAC, Paris adongoc[at]gmail.com Personal page Christine Adongo is currently an early stage researcher doing PhD at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS – Paris), and a member of Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporaire (IIAC). She attained both her bachelors and Masters degrees in Environmental science at…
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Doris BARBONI CNRS Researcher INSU, UMR 7330 CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence barboni[at]cerege.fr Personal page I study fossil pollen and phytoliths as paleobotanical markers of past vegetation in order to reconstruct paleovegetations associated with Mio-Pliocene and Pleistocene hominins in Central and East Africa. I am interested in the interactions between plants, vegetation and present-day climate in the tropics,…
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Xavier BOËS Researcher INEE, UMR 7194 INHP, Musée de l’Homme, Paris xavier.boes[at]inrap.fr Personal page I am a limnogeologist based at the Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Preventives (National Institute of Preventative Archaeological Research, or INRAP) in Lyon, France. Prior to joining the WTAP in 2010 and refocusing my work on the East African Rift System…
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Jean-Renaud BOISSERIE CNRS senior Researcher INEE, UMR 7262 PALEVOPRIM Université de Poitiers jean.renaud.boisserie[at]univ-poitiers.fr Personal page I study the evolutionary history of extinct large mammals, their impact on their fossil ecosystems, and the factors that shaped their paleobiology and ecological niches. In particular I work in the Lower Omo Valley, with the multidisciplinary team Omo Group…
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DAVTIAN Gourguen Research Engineer CNRS INEE, UMR 7264 CEPAM, Université de Nice gourguen.davtian[at]cepam.cnrs.fr Personal page Expertises / Field to study Geography Hydrogeology Modeling Countries of activity in the Rift Ethiopia Kenya GDR Rift Research theme The Rift Heritages Natural resources Training / Education Search for GDR Rift members by Institute / Laboratory / Other Expertises…
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Anne DELAGNES CNRS senior Researcher INEE, UMR 5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux anne.delagnes[at]u-bordeaux.fr Personal page I am a prehistorian who performs archaeological research along the eastern African Rift system in order to reconstruct the dynamics of human settlement in relation to the emergence of new technical practices, new behavioural skills and related paleoenvironments, from the…
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Christiane DENYS Professor INEE, UMR 7205, ISYEB, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité MNHN, Paris christiane.denys[at]mnhn.fr Personal page Plio-Pleistocene rodents evolution in Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and palaeoenvironmental analyses. Taphonomic studies of small mammals assemblages from modern owl and diurnal raptors pellets (establishement of a reference collection). Expertises / Field of study Evolution Paleoenvironment Paleontology Countries of…
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Jean-Baptiste FOURVEL CNRS Researcher INEE, UMR 7269 LAMPEA, Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe Afrique Aix-en-Provence jbfourvel[at]yahoo.com Personal page My research addresses the role of predation and competition pressure between hominin and carnivore and their fundamental roles in the evolution of the paleoecological status of Hominins (from prey and opportunistic collector to predator). My research fields…
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Cédric GAUCHEREL INRAE Researcher INRAE, UMR AMAP, dept ECODIV Cirad, Montpellier cedric.gaucherel[at]inrae.fr Personal page Expertises / Field to study Ecology Modeling Philosophy Countries of activity in the Rift Kenya Tanzania Uganda GDR Rift partners Nelson Mandela Institute Oikos East Africa Iles de Paix GDR Rift Research theme The Rift heritages Natural resources Search for GDR…
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Camille GROHÉ Assistant Professor INEE, UMR 7262 PALEVOPRIM, Université de Poitiers camille.grohe[at]univ-poitiers.fr Personal page My research aims at better understanding the mechanisms driving the evolutionary dynamics of communities and ecosystems. I am particularly interested in the evolution of interactions between carnivoran mammals (lions, saber-toothed cats, hyaenas, dogs…) and hominins in eastern Africa from the Miocene…
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