Research
Projects:
- 2023 / 2025: European 4DMEDSEA project,
funded by the European Spatial Agency (ESA) through CNR (Italy). Total budget is 700 k€ and
lead PI. is B. Buongiorno-Nardelli. WP lead & responsible for 2 scientific case studies: V. Rossi (80 k€) .
- 2022 : Bilateral BIOFAT (Bio-physical Interactions at Ocean Fronts Across Trophic levels) grant funded by
Conservation International (USA) to build
and deploy a multi-instrumented mooring in the Mozambique Channel; PI V. Rossi (22 k€) .
- 2020 / 2023: European BIOPHYCOAST (Developing Downstream applications and services on BIOPHYsical
characterization of the seascape for COASTal management) project, funded by EU-Copernicus FPA;
PIs V. Rossi and C. Pinazo; budget: 106 k€ .
- 2020 / 2024: International Ocean Front Change
project, funded by Belmont Forum ;
international consortium is composed of natural and social scientists from France, Germany, USA, Mozambique and Kenya. Total budget is 1188 k€, lead PI: L. Hannah;
French budget is 250 k€; PI: P. Penven (125 k€), co-PI: V. Rossi (125 k€) .
- 2020 : European Foresight Workshop TUTTI (From
species connectivity To fUncTional connecTIvity), funded by EuroMarine (7.5 k€) ; PIs: L. Lopez-Lopez, M. Hidalgo,
M. Coll, V. Rossi .
- 2018 / 2021: European project SEAMoBB (Solutions for
sEmi-Automated Monitoring of Benthic Biodiversity), funded by ERA-Net Mar-Tera, PI: A. Chenuil (total budget: 589 k€),
Budget WP2 40 k€; co-PI V. Rossi.
- 2018 : Make Our Planet Great Again Short Visit grant
and project entitled “Impact of the Loop Current variability on connectivity and dispersal across the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean”;
visit at MIO from 15th September to 15th November 2018; 10 k€, PI: C. Harrison and V. Rossi.
- 2016 / 2019 : TEASAO (Turbulence Effects on Active Species in Atmosphere and
Ocean; TEASAO), funded by Toulouse IDEX program
“Attractivity Chairs 2014”, France, PI: Y. Morel & P. Haynes.
- 2016 / 2017 : Juan de la Cierva – Incorporacion fellowship , ranked 2nd nationally in
area “Earth Science”, Spain (renounced when entering CNRS in January 2017), 64 k€, PI: V. Rossi.
- 2016 / 2018 : LAOP (Estudios lagrangianos de procesos oceánicos: patrones de conectividad, barreras al
transporte y poblaciones marinas), funded by MICINN, Spain, PI: C. Lopez.
- 2015 / 2016 : HYDROGENCONNECT (HYDROdynamic networks, population GENetics and oceanic
CONNECTivity for the design of Marine Protected Areas), France, 18 k€, PI: V. Rossi.
- 2013 / 2015 : ESCOLA (EStructuras COherentes LAgrangianas en la dinámica del océano), funded by MICINN
and FEDER (CTM2012-39025-C02-01), Spain, PI: C. Lopez.
- 2011 / 2015 : LINC (Learning about Interacting Networks in Climate), Marie-Curie initial training network 289447,
funded by the European Union (EC-FP7), EU, local PI: E. Hernandez-Garcia.
- 2012 / 2015 : GDR MarCo (Marine French Connection), funded by IFREMER and CNRS, France, PI: S. Arnaud-Haond
and N. Bierne.
- 2010 / 2012 : Discovery Project “Ocean-reef interactions as drivers of continental shelf productivity in a
changing climate”, funded by the Australian Research Council (DP1093510), Australia, PI: A.Waite.
- 2005 / 2013 : EUR-OCEANS (EURopean research on OCean Ecosystems under Anthropogenic and Natural forcingS)
Network of Excellence and Consortium, funded by the European Union (ECFP6), EU, local PI: V. Garçon.
- 2007 / 2008 : OCEANTECH (Herramientas avanzadas para el estudio de la dinámica océanica y la gestìon medio-ambiental)
funded by CSIC (PIF06-059), Spain, PI: C. Lopez.
- 2006 / 2009 : MOUTON (Modélisation Océanique d'Un Théâtre d'Opération Navale), funded by SHOM-DGA (PEA012401),
France, PI: Y. Morel.
- 2004 / 2007 : “Linkage between Climate Change and Fisheries in Hervey Bay, Australia”, funded by USQ
and DPI&F, Australia, PI: J. Ribbe.
Training:
- Supervisor of Akash Dutta (from IISER-Pune, India) for his M2 internship (co-advisor: F. Sudre; June 2023 –
February 2024) at MIO, Marseille, France, partly supported by the competitive
Charpak bilateral grant funded through
Campus France.
- Supervisor of Madiop Lo (AMU) for his 9-month academic stay (April to December 2023) at MIO as a computer science
engineer employed by SINAY, Marseille, France.
- Supervisor of Chaimaa Rwawi for her 18-month contract (June 2023 – February 2025) at MIO as a computer science
engineer in the framework of the ESA funded 4DMEDSEA project, Marseille, France.
- Co-supervisor of Maria J. Lagunes for her M2 internship (co-advisor: L. Berline; January-July 2023) at MIO,
Marseille, France.
- Co-supervisor of Georgios Keratmetsidis for his PhD thesis entitled “Exploring the functional connectivity
within a complex population system of a highly commercial demersal resource in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea” (co-advisors:
M. Hidalgo and A. Sureda; Sept. 2021 to August 2025, based at COB Mallorca IEO-CSIC, Spain), including 2 research stays (Feb.-May 2023
& August 2023) at MIO, Marseille, France.
- Organizer & host of a 1-week visit (Sept. 2022) at MIO/AMU (Marseille, France) of 27 undergraduate students
(Master level) enrolled at the IMAU (under the
supervision of Drs. W.J. van de Berg & E. van Sebille), Utrecht University, Netherlands.
- Supervisor of Chaimaa Rwawi for her M2 internship (co-advisor: M. Tedetti; April-Aug 2022) at MIO,
Marseille, France.
- Supervisor of Dr. Nathaniel Bensoussan, research engineer in the framework of the BIOPHYCOAST project
(Mar 2021 - June 2022) at MIO, Marseille, France.
- Supervisor of Chaimaa Rwawi for her M2 internship (co-advisor: M. Tedetti; Mar-Aug 2021) at MIO,
Marseille, France.
- Supervisor of Axel Eugène for his M2 internship (co-advisor: J-C. Poggiale; Feb-July 2021) at MIO,
Marseille, France.
- Supervisor of Floriane Sudre for her PhD thesis (co-advisors: B. Dewitte and V. Garçon March 2021-2024)
at MIO, Marseille, France.
- Supervisor of Marine Di Stefano (AGROCAMPUS) for her M2 internship at MIO (March-August 2020) and
for her PhD thesis at MIO (co-advisor: D. Nérini; Nov. 2020 to Nov. 2023), Marseille, France.
- Co-supervisor of Ana Wasielesky (WACOMA) for
her M2 internship (Nov. 2020 to July 2021) at UniBo, Bologna, Italy and at MIO, Marseille, France.
- Supervisor of Maxime Odic (ENSTA Paris) for his M2 internship at MIO (May-November 2020).
- Local supervisor of Veronica Morales-Marquez (UIB – IMEDEA, Mallorca, Spain) during her 2-month
research stay (June-July 2019) at MIO, Marseille, France.
- Supervisor of Madiop Lo (AMU) for his 1-y contract (March 2019 – February 2020) at MIO as a computer
science engineer.
- Co−advisor of Dr. Joao Bettencourt, post−doctoral fellow at LEGOS (TEASAO project), over 2017-2019.
- Co−advisor of Dr. Enrico Ser−Giacomi, post−doctoral fellow at LOCEAN, over 2018-2019.
- Supervisor of Térence Legrand (Aix Marseille Univ.) for his M2 internship at MIO (January-July 2018)
and for his PhD thesis at MIO (Oct. 2018 – Oct. 2021), Marseille, France.
- Supervisor of Dr. Ehsan Sadighrad (IMS, Turkey) for a 2-month research stay (June-July 2016) at IFISC,
in the framework of the HYDROGENCONNECT project.
- Co-supervisor of Pedro Monroy for his PhD thesis (2013-2018), IFISC (UIB-CSIC), Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
- Supervisor of Mélodie Dubois (February to August 2014) for her master´s thesis,
AGROCAMPUS Rennes, France.
- Co-supervisor of Enrico Ser-Giacomi for his PhD thesis (2013-2015), IFISC (UIB-CSIC), Palma de Mallorca,
Spain.
- Supervisor of Eunice Edwige Gandote Sonagnon (April to September 2014) for her master´s thesis,
CIPMA – Chaire UNESCO, Cotonou, Bénin.
- Supervisor of José Sánchez Pelegrín (June to August 2014) for his bachelor´s thesis,
IFISC, Spain.
- Co-Supervisor of Adam Davies (2011) and Tom Sullivan (2012) for their master’s thesis,
University of Western Australia, Australia.
- Co-supervisorof Laura Antoine and Charlotte Grange (2008/2009) for their bachelor’s thesis
(laboratory work and report writing), CERAM, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
