CV

Curriculum Vitae

Born : Orléans, France

Citizenship: French

Education

1988	Doctorate in Earth Science, University of Orléans, France
	Title of thesis: The “Grande Couche de Bourran” from the Stephanian of Decazeville (France). Petrology and depositional palaeoenvironments of coal : the genesis of a thick seam.
1981	Post-graduate diploma (DEA) in “Mineral and Energy Resources”, University of Orléans, France.
1980	Master of Earth Sciences in Applied Geology, University of Orléans, France.
1976, 1977, 1979	Training at the Bureau de Recherche Géologique et Minière (BRGM), Orléans, France: geological field survey and mapping in France.

Professional Experience

12/2001 - present	Head and principal consultant at LAOP Consulting & Research (Laboratories for Applied Organic Petrology), Tübingen.
	Responsible for the management of the research activities and the development and application of organic petrological methods in archaeology, soil science, and environmental sciences. See also : Laboratories for Applied Organic Petrology, LAOP Consulting & Research Straße der Freundschaft 92 D-02991 Lauta Germany www.laop-consult.de
05/2000 - 11/2001	Research Associate on the project, “Organic petrography, organic geochemistry, stratigraphy, facies geology, and basin analysis of the Triassic and the Jurassic series from the Junggar Basin, NW China” (research scholarship from the German Research Foundation, DFG), Department of Geology, Geochemistry, Oil and Coal Deposits, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), Aachen, Germany and Institut of Geology and Paleontology, University of Tübingen, Germany.
12/1998 - 04/2000	Consultant in Organic Petrology and Coal Geology
	Various research and industrial projects done in collaboration with: Institut of Geology and Paleontology, University of Tübingen, Germany. Lausitzer Braunkohlen Aktiengesellschaft (LAUBAG), Senftenberg, Germany. Institut of Process Engineering and Power Plant Technology (Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Dampfkesselwesen, IVD, Universität Stuttgart, Germany). Cantonal Service of Archaeology, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
04/1989 - 11/1998	Assistant Professor, Institut of Geology and Paleontology, University of Tübingen (Germany) : Director of the Research Laboratory of Organic Petrology.
04/1984 - 03/1989	Research Scholar, Institut of Geology and Paleontology, University of Tübingen (Germany): Foundation Director of the Research Laboratory of Organic Petrology

Awards

2010 Rolf & Marlies Teichmüller Preis (German Geological Society)

Memberships

International Committee for Coal and Organic Petrology (ICCP).
The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP).
German Association for Professionals in Organic Petrology (AKOP).