Comités

Members of the Organising Committee:

Doris BARBONI, Researcher at CNRS, Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Géosciences de l’Environnement (CEREGE), Aix-Marseille University /CNRS/ IRD, Aix-en-Provence, France

Jean-Dominique MEUNIER, Director of research at CNRS, Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Géosciences de l’Environnement (CEREGE), Aix-Marseille University /CNRS/ IRD, Aix-en-Provence, France

Anne ALEXANDRE, Director of research at CNRS, Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Géosciences de l’Environnement (CEREGE), Aix-Marseille University /CNRS/ IRD, Aix-en-Provence, France

Marine PASTUREL, Postdoc scientist at Laboratoire d’Ecologie Systématique et Evolution (ESE), Université Paris-Sud /CNRS/ Agroparistech, Orsay, France

Members of the Scientific Committee:

Patricia ANDERSON, Director of research at CNRS, Laboratoire Cultures et Environnement, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge (CEPAM), Nice, France

Terry BALL, Professor, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

Mikhail BLINNIKOV, Professor, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA, and President of the International Phytolith Society (IPS)

Laurent BREMOND, Assistant professor at EPHE, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution (ISEM), Montpellier, France

Marcia CALEGARI, Professor, Universidade Estadual do Oeste, Paraná, Brazil

Claire DELHON, Researcher at CNRS, Laboratoire Cultures et Environnement, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge (CEPAM), Nice, France

Doreen BOWDERY, researcher at The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Aline GARNIER, Assistant professor, University Paris-Est Créteil, Créteil, France

Yansheng GU, Professor, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, P.R.China

Valentin KINDOMIHOU, Assistant professor, University Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin

Anupama KRISHNAMURTHY, Researcher at French Institute of Pondicherry, Pondicherry, India

Marco MADELLA, Professor at Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

Katharina NEUMANN, Professor at Goethe-Universität, Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Germany

Alice NOVELLO, Postdoc scientist at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburgh, South Africa

Margarita OSTERRIETH, Professor at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina

Dolorès PIPERNO, Senior scientist and Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA, and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

Caroline STRÖMBERG, Professor at University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and Treasurer of the IPS.

Florence SYLVESTRE, Director of research at IRD, Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Géosciences de l’Environnement (CEREGE), Aix-en-Provence, France

Luc VRYDAGHS, Researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgique, and former President of the Society for Phytolith Research

David WILLIAMSON, Director of research at IRD, Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentation et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Bondy, France, and The Representative of IRD in Eastern Africa