BRETON Florentin

Understanding climate change in territories (processes, mitigation, adaptation):

• Development and evaluation of climate models (urban meteorology, bias quantification)
• Study of past, present and future climates (spatiotemporal variability, statistical modeling and machine learning)
• Development of urban approaches for buildings (energy consumption and thermal comfort, design and renovation options)
• Development of social approaches for climate action (comparison between public perception and scientific knowledge, co-development of territorial options).

Research work partly interdisciplinary (physical and social sciences) and transdisciplinary (from theory to application).

International

• 2023-2025: Interreg RiverDiv “Protection de la diversité, réduction de la pollution de la Wieslauter : Gestion du cours d'eau adaptée aux défis du changement climatique”. https://www.interreg-rhin-sup.eu/projet/riverdiv. Climate change analysis for aquatic animal species.
• 2017-2021: ERA4CS CoCliServ “Co-development of place-based climate services for action”. https://www.cocliserv.cearc.fr/. Leader: J.-P. Vanderlinden (CEARC). Climate change analysis and codevelopment activities with decision-makers and inhabitants.

National

• 2021-2023 : ADEME PRIMEQUAL AMBRES “Approche multicritères pour un bâtiment résilient et sain”. https://primequal.fr/fr/ambres-approche-multicriteres-pour-un-batiment-resilient-et-sain. Leader: M. Mendez (Octopus Lab). Analysis of urban climate and climate change.

Regional

• 2023-2024 : EMS VESPA “Vulnérabilité des écoles à la surchauffe urbaine et à la pollution de l’air intérieur”. Leaders: N. Blond (LIVE) & M. Mendez (Octopus Lab). Analysis of urban climate and climate change.
• 2022-2023 : FERED PUNCHY “Transition, adaptation et résilience des socio-écosystèmes au changement global”. https://fered.unistra.fr/formations/projet-punchy. Leader: S. Payraudeau (ENGEES). Creation of 1 hour teaching content on climate change.

2022 to 2024

• September 2023 - August 2024: Research and teaching associate at École nationale du génie de l'eau et de l'environnement de Strasbourg (ENGEES). Co-affiliation with Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement (LIVE).
• Academic years 2022/2023 and 2023/2024: Part-time lecturer at Strasbourg University.
• January 2022 - July 2023: CNRS Postdoctoral researcher at Laboratoire image, ville, environnement (LIVE), Strasbourg University.

2018 to 2021

• January 2018 - June 2021: PhD thesis in climatology at Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), Paris-Saclay University.
• Academic years 2017/2018 and 2019/2019: Part-time lecturer at University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ).

2015 to 2017

• May - October 2017: Graduate research assistant at Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) and Servicio de Hidrografía Naval (SHN), France and Argentina.
• April - July 2016: Graduate research assistant at Laboratoire de météorologie dynamique (LMD).
• June - August 2015: Graduate research assistant at LSCE.

Teaching

Thematic (climatology, geography, hydrology, ecology) and methodological (tools, programming, analysis, communication).

• 2022-2024: about 180 hours “équivalent-TD” (HETD) at ENGEES and 50 HETD at Strasbourg University (incoming semester included).
• 2018-2019: about 12 HETD at UVSQ.

Co-supervision

• Ghislain Ponche (2022), Master internship “Etude de l'occupation du sol de la région Strasbourgeoise pour la simulation du climat urbain”. Master 1 Géographie, Aménagement, Environnement Développement : Fonctionnement des Espaces Urbains course. Strasbourg University. Co-supervisor : N. Blond.

Networks

• French Urban Climatology Group (2022-2023)
• European Geophysical Union (2020, 2023)

Summer schools

• EUCOR trinational summer school: Experimenting with transdisciplinary research - using the example of climate adaptation of cities. Freiburg University, Germany, september 2023.

Jurys

• Internship defense for first-year Master students in “Mention : Géographie, aménagement, environnement et développement (GAED), Parcours : Fonctionnement et Gestion de l’environnement urbain”. Strasbourg University, 2022.

Laboratory life

• Lab council at LSCE (2018-2021)

Animation

• 2022-2023: Fête de la Science in Strasbourg.
• 2018-2020: Forum International de la Météo et du Climat in Paris.
• 2015-2021: Fête de la Science in the Paris region.

• 2021: PhD thesis in climatology, on the topic “European climate change: co-development of local climate services and clustering approaches”, under the supervision of Mathieu Vrac (LSCE) and Jean-Paul Vanderlinden (CEARC), at the “Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement” (LSCE), Paris-Saclay University.
• 2017: Master label in entrepreneurship and innovation, EIT Climate KIC.
• 2017: Master of Climate Science, Paris-Saclay University.
• 2015: Bachelor of Earth Sciences, Paris-Sud University.

Articles in preparation

• Many others (of course)
• Breton F., N. Blond et al., Critical review of datasets and methods to analyse urban weather conditions under climate change for building impact studies.
• Micolier A., Breton F., N. Blond, M. Mendez, et al., Multicriteria approach for a resilient and healthy building in the context of a changing urban climate: evaluation of design and renovation options to optimize energy consumption, thermal comfort and air quality.

Prepublications

• Sajjad, S. H., Blond, N., Breton, F., & Clappier, A., A modeling approach to study the effect of urban structure on minimum and maximum temperatures: application to Lahore city in Pakistan. https://hal.science/hal-04250530

Articles submitted or in revision

• Da Cunha, C., Rocha, A. P. F., Breton, F., & Vanderlinden, J. P. (2023). Co-production of Climate Services and Foresight Process for Community-Led Adaptation: Lessons from the Field. Futures.

Articles published

• Breton, F., Vrac, M., Yiou, P., Vaittinada Ayar, P., & Jézéquel, A. (2022). Seasonal circulation regimes in the North Atlantic: Towards a new seasonality. International Journal of Climatology, 42(11), 5848-5870. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7565
• Mathy, S., Labussière, O., Lavorel, S., Lebel, T., Schmitt, B. & collectif « Autour du 2 °C 2019 » (2021). Les enjeux de l’interdisciplinarité de la recherche et des parcours de formation sur le changement climatique : l’école d’été « Autour du 2° C ». https://doi.org/10.1051/nss/2021017
• da Cunha, C., Rocha, A. P. F., Cardon, M., Breton, F., Labeyrie, L., & Vanderlinden, J. P. (2020). Adaptation planning in France: inputs from narratives of change in support of a community-led foresight process. Climate Risk Management, 30, 100243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2020.100243

PhD thesis

Breton, F. (2021). European climate change: co-development of local climate services and clustering approaches (Doctoral dissertation, Université Paris-Saclay). https://theses.hal.science/tel-03512518/document

Conferences

• Breton, F., Blond N., Puissant A. & Micolier, A., Modélisation du climat urbain de Strasbourg pour étudier la consommation d'énergie et le confort thermique des bâtiments. GéoDataDays2023, Reims, France, 13 September 2023.
• Breton, F., Territorial climate change: understanding, mitigating and adapting (No. EGU23-14056). Copernicus Meetings, Vienne, Autriche, 24-28 April 2023.
• Blond, N., Breton, F., Micolier, A., & Mendez, M., A modeling approach to address building energy consumption and thermal comfort under urban climate change (No. EGU23-14169). Copernicus Meetings, Vienne, Autriche, 24-28 April 2023.
• Breton, F., Blond N., Micolier, A., & Mendez, M., of building energy consumption and thermal comfort under climate change: application to Strasbourg. Journée scientifique du groupe Climat urbain, Paris, 22 March 2023.
• Breton, F., Vrac, M., Pascal, Y., Vaittinada Ayar, P., and Jézéquel, A., Seasonal weather regimes in the North Atlantic region: towards new seasonality? (EGU2020-5449). General Assembly of the European Geophysical Union, Vienne, Autriche, 4–8 May 2020.

Outreach

• Interview on heatwaves and climate adaptation in cities with Rue89 newspaper, Strasbourg, August 2023.

• Invited conference on climate change at Ecole Sainte-Madeleine, Strasbourg, May 2023.

• Invited conference on climate change at Collège des Missions Africaines, Haguenau, October 2022.
• Invited conference on climate change at Jardin des Sciences, Haguenau, October 2022.
• Conference with L. Labeyrie on "how to prepare the Gulf of Morbihan to climate change", Elven, September 2020.

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