Dr. Loraine Gourbet
Haus
A 27,
Raum
101 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Funktion und Aufgaben:
Group leader of the Active Landscapes Systems in Section 4.7Wissenschaftliche Interessen:
Active Landscapes Systems working group
Current members
- Dr. Daniel O’Hara (postdoctoral researcher): Extreme precipitation events, erosional thresholds and landscape evolution modelling
- Florian Jocham (Uni Potsdam MSc research assistant): Fluvial grain size distribution inferred from 3D point clouds
Past members
Ghozy el Fatih (Uni Aachen student research internship): Eruptive center and geometry reconstruction of Rodrigues Island, Indian Ocean
More information: lorainegourbet.wordpress.com
Karriere:
- 2023-: Senior research scientist in the Earth Surface Modelling Section, German Research Center for Geosciences, Potsdam
- 2023-: Associate researcher, Géosciences Réunion, Réunion Island
- 2020 – 2022: Lecturer, Géosciences Réunion – IPGP, University of La Réunion
- 2019 – 2020: Lecturer, Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Université Grenoble Alpes
- 2016 – 2018: Postdoctoral fellow, Earth Surface Dynamics group, ETH Zürich
- 2014-2015: Lecturer, ENS Lyon-University Lyon I
- 2011: Visiting student researcher, Berkeley Geochronology Center
Werdegang / Ausbildung:
- Ph.D., Earth Sciences, Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon, 2015
- M.S., Geology, FU Berlin/ENS Lyon, 2011
- MS., Earth Sciences and biology (Agrégation/teaching degree), ENS Lyon, 2010
- B.A. Geology, ENS Lyon, 2008
Projekte:
Current projects
- Landscape evolution of volcanic islands
- Impact of cyclones on erosion
- Co-PI of the RELICT project in collaboration with Duna Roda-Boluda and Benjamin Campforts, VU Amsterdam, and Taylor Schildgen, GFZ (Relief, sediment and tectonics: What is the role of sediment supply and inherited relief in modulating transient adjustment to tectonics?)
- Co-PI of the ANR Plum-BeatR project in collaboration with Vincent Famin, IPGP-LGSR (Réunion Plume Beat and the Rheology of the mantle)
more information here: lorainegourbet.wordpress.com
Wissenschaftliche Gremien:
Academic services
Reviewer for GSA Bulletin, Terra Nova, Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters, Earth Sciences Review, Quaternary Research, G3, Geology, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
Auszeichnungen:
- 2023 MSCA EROVOL project (Erosion of volcanic islands: dating volcanic surfaces and modeling river profile evolution to quantify the impact of rainfall variability on erosion)
- 2022 INSU SYSTER grant (co-PI: Vincent Famin)
- 2020 BQR grant from Grenoble Alpes University
- 2018 Swiss Geomorphological Society supported conference contribution
- 2016 ETH postdoctoral fellowship
- 2013 AGU student travel grant
- 2013 Explora'doc mobility grant from the Région Rhône-Alpes