I took interest in water resources management in the Rift in terms of availability and sustainability of surface and groundwaters for drinking water supply and preservation of the environment.

Origin and evolution of the Cameroon Volcanic Line.

ANR MagmAfar (Ethiopia and Djibouti).

Igneous petrology, geochemistry, metamorphic petrology, structural geology, mineralogy, experimental petrology, volcanology…

to study…

…Magma reservoir processes.

I am interested in magmatic processes related to the initiation of continental rifting; Identifying the source and composition of hyperalkaline and carbonatitic magmas and complex deep fluids that can facilitate melting or weaken the lithosphere. Identification of the processes behind crustal thinning by combining petrogeochemistry, geophysics, and petrophysics.

I am supervising the ANR NILAFAR project, which aims to quantify hydrological fluctuations and document their consequences on human communities during the transition from hunter-gatherers to agro-pastoralists over the last 20,000 years in Afar region, Ethiopia & Djibouti. It also aims to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms behind the fluctuations of the African monsoon and the episodes of hyper-aridities that occurred within a few hundred years in the past.