Curriculum Vitae

 

Name            Olivier Magand

Address        54, Rue molière - BP 96 - 38402 Saint Martin d'Hères - France

Nationality    French

Born              In Saint-Etienne - France - January 12, 1976

Family           Married and one child

Education      PhD degree in 2009 (Sciences of the Earth and Universe)

Position         Research Engineer in scientific instrumentation (radioactivity)

 

Commissions of trust (present)

 

• Member of the South Pacific Environmental Radioactivity Association (SPERA)
• Member of the French Society on Radioprotection (SFRP)
• Member of the International Glaciology Society (IGS)

 

Present ongoing research programs

 

• Antarctic traverses during the 4th International Polar Year
• Mass Balance studies in Antarctica
• SAN VALLOR research program on Climate in the Andes
• Climate studies in lacustrine environments in the Alps, Andes and sub-Antarctic islands

 

Some National and International collaboration

 

• LSCE (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement)
• EDYTEM (Environnments DYnamiques et TErritoires de Montagnes)
• ENEA CLIM-OSS (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment)
• AARI (Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute - Russia)
• NPI (Norsk Polar Institute - Norway)
• CEP (Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern - Switzerland)

Research experience during the last 10 years

 

2002-today  Research engineer in the Laboratory of Glaciology and Geophysics of the Environment (LGGE)

2001           Engineer in International Agency of Energy Atomic (IAEA) in the Nuclear Applications and Science Department in Monaco

2000          Technician in the Institute of Research for the Development (IRD) in the oceanographical department in Noumea (New-Caledonia)

 

Field experience

 

2007            Mass Balance studies in Antarctica (Adelie Land)

2003-2005   Atmospheric and Mass Balance studies in East Svalbard

2003            Ice core drilling program in Antarctica (Dome Concordia)

2002            Sediment core drilling program in French Guyana

2001            Oceanographic cruises (Mediterranean sea)

1998-2000    Oceanographic cruises (Noumea lagoon)                 

 

Technical expertises

 

Laboratory   Alpha and Gamma spectrometries, Beta counting

                    Spectrometry techniques as ICP-OES

Field             Glaciology: Mass Balance field work techniques

                                       (stake farms building, ice coring system)

                    Oceanography: Sediment, water and biological sampling