PhD student

Alexandre Honiat

Innsbruck Quaternary Research Group

PhD project
The subglacial speleothem archive

Research interests
• Understanding the processes that lead to subglacial speleothem formation
• Expanding paleoclimate records during glacials using subglacial speleothems
• Cave monitoring: how dripstone caves respond to global warming

Short CV
2023-            PhD candidate in Earth Sciences at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
2022-2023   Climatological engineer at the Géologie Environnement Conseil engineering
office, Saint-girons, France
2020-2022   MSc in Earth science at the University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, France
First semester at the University of Iceland (Erasmus)
2019-2020   Bachelor in Earth science at the University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, France
2018-2019   Bachelor in Physics, Instrumentation and Energy at the University Paul
Sabatier, Toulouse III, France
2016-2018   Technician degree in Physical Measurements at the University Paul Sabatier,
Toulouse III, France

Grants and scholarships
2020 European Mobility Programme in Iceland                                                        
2018 Regional scholarship for an internship at the Brazilian National Institute of Space Research

Professional and community involvement
2022- Member of “Groupe d’études du milieu souterrain” (Underground environment study group)
2022- Member of the association Centre-Terre        
2019  French Federal diploma of caving, federal course supervision
2016- Member of the association Continent 8
2007- Member of the Speleological Group of Couserans (GSC)                                               
                                     


 

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Spötl, C., Baker, J.L., Skiba, V., Honiat, A., Fohlmeister, J., Luetscher, M., Trüssel, M. (2024): Speleothems in subglacial caves: An emerging archive of glacial climate history and mountain glacier dynamics. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 333, 108684, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108684.