Roxane TZORTZIS

PhD student in oceanography


  • What is New ?
  • Publications
  • Studies
  • Experiences
  • Oceanographic campaigns
  • Other informations

  • Hello my name is Roxane Tzortzis. I am a french PhD student in physical and biogeochemical oceanography at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (Marseille, France). I study the impact of physical processes occuring at fine scale, on the biogeochemistry in the Mediterranean Sea.


    Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO)

    Address :

    MIO - Institut Méditerranéen d'Océanologie,
    Campus de Luminy - Case 901, 13288 MARSEILLE cedex 9, France.

    Phone :

    +33-(0)4-86-09-06-12

    E-mail :

    roxane.tzortzis@mio.osupytheas.fr

    About me :

    Birth : 20 November 1994, Marseille (France)
    Nationality : French
    Languages : French (mother tongue), English, Spain

    Computer knowledge :

    Operative Systems : Linux, Windows
    Programming : FORTRAN 90
    Scripting : Matlab, R
    Writing : LaTeX, HTML

    To download my CV (pdf format) click CV .


  • What is New !
  • * April 2022 : Meeting at LOG (Wimereux, France). To download my presentation (pdf format) click PRESENTATION.

    * March 2022 : Science meeting onboard of the RV Pourquoi Pas during Calypso cruise. To download my presentation (pdf format) click PRESENTATION. To download my report (pdf format) click REPORT.

    * December 2021 : Meeting at LOPS (Brest, France). To download my presentation (pdf format) click PRESENTATION.

    * October 2021 : Fête de la Science, Marseille. Conférence : "En océanographie, la physique et la biologie liées pour la vie". To download my presentation (pdf format) click PRESENTATION.

    * June 2021 : ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Session: SS28 - Aquatic microbial community structure and dynamics: new insights from non-destructive high throughput automated single-cell analysis 2. To download my presentation (pdf format) click PRESENTATION. See also my video presentation VIDEO !

    * April 2021 : EGU General Assembly 2021 : Tzortzis R., Doglioli A.M., Barrillon S., Petrenko A.A., d'Ovidio F., Izard L., Thyssen M., Bhairy N., Pascual A., Barceló-Llull B., Cyr F., Tedetti M., Garreau P., Dumas F., Bordois L., Comby C., Rousselet L., Grégori G., Recent progress in the study of fine-scale physical-biological coupling in the Mediterranean Sea. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7133 . To download my presentation (pdf format) click PRESENTATION .

    * April 2021 : Meeting "Congrès École doctorale". To download my abstract (pdf format) click here ABSTRACT. To download my poster (pdf format) click POSTER.

    * March 2021 : FerryBox workshop : Session Algal bloom observations using automated systems. To download my presentation (pdf format) click PRESENTATION.

    * May 2020 : EGU General Assembly 2020 : Tzortzis R., Doglioli A.M., Barrillon S., Petrenko A.A., d'Ovidio F., Izard L., Thyssen M., Pascual A., Cyr F., Dumas F., Grégori G., A Lagrangian strategy for in situ sampling the physical-biological coupling at fine scale : the PROTEVSMED-SWOT 2018 cruise. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7357 . To download my presentation (pdf format) click PRESENTATION .

    * November 2019 : Meeting at CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences , Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Qingdao, China). To download my presentation (pdf format) click PRESENTATION .

    * July 2019 : I defended my PhD candidature (École Doctorale "Sciences de l'Environnement" (ED251)). To download my presentation (pdf format) click PRESENTATION.

  • Publications
  • Referred papers
  • * Tzortzis R., Doglioli, A. M., Barrillon, S., Petrenko, A. A., d'Ovidio, F., Izard, L., Thyssen, M., Pascual, A., Barceló-Llull, B., Cyr, F., Tedetti, M., Bhairy, N., Garreau, P., Dumas, F., and Gregori, G.: Impact of moderately energetic fine-scale dynamics on the phytoplankton community structure in the western Mediterranean Sea, Biogeosciences, 18, 6455–6477, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-6455-2021 , 2021.

    * Comby C., Barrillon S., Fuda J.-L., Doglioli A.M., Tzortzis R., Gregori G., Thyssen M., and Petrenko A.A.: Measuring vertical velocities with ADCPs in low-energy ocean., [accepted in Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology].

    * Barrillon S., Fuchs R., Petrenko A., Comby C., Bosse A., Yohia C., Fuda J.-L., Bhairy N., Berline L., Cyr F., Doglioli A., Gregori G., Tzortzis R., d'Ovidio F., and Thyssen M.: Impact of a strong storm on phytoplankton in the north-western Mediterranean Sea., [in preparation for Biogeosciences].

  • Conference proceedings and other papers
  • * Comby C., Petrenko A., Estournel C., Marsaleix P., Fuda J.-L., Doglioli A., Tzortzis R. , Grégori G., Thyssen M., Bosse A., and Barrillon S.: Vertical velocities in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea: combining in situ and modeling approach, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-3920, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-3920 , 2022.

    * Fuda J.-L., Barrillon S., Bhairy N., Branger H., Comby C., Doglioli A., Dufosse M., Gregori G., Grenz C., Guillemain D., Lafont M., Le Gal P., Luneau C., Malengros D., Petrenko A., and Tzortzis R., Une nouvelle approche pour mesurer la composante verticale des courants océaniques. Journées Drones Capteurs embarqués 2021, Drones Cap’, Sep 2021, Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron, France, https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03575152

    * Tzortzis R., Doglioli A.M., Barrillon S., Petrenko A.A., d'Ovidio F., Izard L., Thyssen M., Bhairy N., Pascual A., Barceló-Llull B., Cyr F., Tedetti M., Garreau P., Dumas F., Bordois L., Comby C., Rousselet L., Grégori G., Recent progress in the study of fine-scale physical-biological coupling in the Mediterranean Sea. EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-7133, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7133 , 2021.

    * Comby C., Barrillon S., Fuda J.-L., Doglioli A.M., Tzortzis R., Gregori G., Thyssen M., Petrenko A.A., New insights for direct in situ measurement of oceanic vertical velocities in fine-scale studies. EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-4632, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-4632 , 2021.

    * Barrillon S., Comby C., Fuda J.-L., Petrenko A.A., Thyssen M., Gregori G., Tzortzis R., d'Ovidio F., Doglioli A.M., Study of fine-scale dynamics and their coupling with biogeochemistry - FUMSECK cruise. EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-7199, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7199 , 2021.

    * Barrillon S., Bataille H., Bhairy N., Comby C., Coulon T., Doglioli A., D'Ovidio F., Fuda J.-L., Grégori G., Petrenko A., Ricout A., Rousselet L., Thyssen M., Tzortzis R. (2020). FUMSECK cruise report. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00636/74854/

    * Tzortzis R., Doglioli A.M., Barrillon S., Petrenko A.A., d'Ovidio F., Izard L., Thyssen M., Pascual A., Cyr F., Dumas F., Grégori G., A Lagrangian strategy for in situ sampling the physical-biological coupling at fine scale : the PROTEVSMED-SWOT 2018 cruise. EGU General Assembly 2020, doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7357 .

    * Doglioli A.M., Grégori G., d'Ovidio F., Petrenko A.A., Barrillon S., Fuda J.-L., Thyssen M., Tzortzis R., Izard L., Dumas F., Garreau P., Pascual A., Marrec P., Rousselet L., Bhairy N., Cyr F., Tedetti M., Berline L., Carlotti F., Combining remote sensing and in situ observations to study the physical-biological coupling at fine scale: recent Mediterranean campaigns and outlook. EGU General Assembly 2020, doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7356 .

  • Studies

  • * Since October 2019 : PhD : The fine scale circulation and its impact on the phytoplankton biodiversity. École Doctorale "Sciences de l'Environnement" (ED251), Aix Marseille University.
    Directors : A. M. DOGLIOLI and G. GREGORI .

    * 2017-2019 : Master Sciences of the Sea. OSU Pytheas , Aix Marseille University.

    * 2014-2017 : Licence Sciences of Earth and Life. Aix Marseille University.

    * 2012-2014 : First year of Medecine. Aix Marseille University.

    * 2012 : Baccalaureat with honors.

  • Experiences

  • * Since October 2019 : PhD : The fine scale circulation and its impact on the phytoplankton biodiversity.

    * 2019 : Internship : Study submesoscale and its implications on the biogeochemistry thanks to measurements of the PROTEVSMED-SWOT 2018 cruise. Directors : A. M. DOGLIOLI and S. BARRILLON.
    To download my report (pdf format) click here REPORT. To download my presentation (pdf format) click PRESENTATION.

    * 2018 : Modeling project : Study of the Levantine basin with the ROMS model.
    To download my report (pdf format) click here REPORT. To download my presentation (pdf format) click PRESENTATION .

    * 2018 : Modeling project : Study of the Thau basin with a hydrodynamic model and an advection / diffusion model.
    To download my report (pdf format) click here REPORT.

    * 2017 : Internship : Estimation of remineralization fluxes of particulate organic carbon in the mesopelagic zone : approach by the barium tracer (Ba). Director : S. JACQUET.
    To download my report (pdf format) click here REPORT.

  • Oceanographic campaigns

  • * February/March 2022 : Participant to the oceanographic cruise CALYPSO, in the North of Mallorca (Mediterranean Sea).

    * October 2020 : Participant to the oceanographic cruise Protevs Gibraltar 2020 , in the Strait of Gibraltar. To download my report (pdf format) click here REPORT.

    * May 2019 : Participant to the oceanographic cruise FUMSECK , in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea. [doi: 10.17600/18001155].

  • Other informations
  • Graduates FFME (French Federation of Mountain and Climbing)
  • * 2017 : Federal certificate of initiator in Natural Structure of Climbing.

    * 2011 : Federal certificate of initiator in Artificial Structure of Climbing.

  • Experiences as a climbing instructor
  • * Since 2016 : Work in climbing club : ECA (Escalade Club Aubagnais) : Supervision of children and adults, in artificial and natural structure of climbing.

    * 2015-2017 : Work in climbing club : Culture Grimpe : Supervision of children, in natural structure of climbing.

  • Hobbies
  • * Sports : Rock climbing, Skiing, Bicycling, Swimming
    * Music : Playing guitar, classical music
    * Other : Reading, Astronomy, History

  • Last revision of this page 12 April 2022