BRETON Florentin

I study processes linked to climate change in territories (causes and consequences) as well as mitigation and adaptation solutions (reducing GHG emissions and preparing for current and future impacts) with different communities (scientists, decision-makers, residents). This research is partly interdisciplinary (physical and social sciences) and transdisciplinary (from theory to application). My (collaborative) research activities include:

- Determining the past, present and future climatic conditions of territories (urban and rural)

• Development and evaluation of measurements and simulations
• Downscaling (dynamical, statistical)
• Analysis of spatiotemporal variability and trends (weather extremes, weather types, analogues, etc.)

- Examining climate-related territorial issues as well as mitigation and adaptation options (energy and health, water and biodiversity)

• Integration of climate change into impact models (e.g. residential buildings, aquatic fauna)
• Simulation and evaluation of mitigation and adaptation scenarios for the near and distant future  

- Co-producing knowledge and co-developing solutions with local stakeholders

• Prospective activities (interviews, workshops, projects) to support decision-making
• Comparison between local (experience, perception) and scientific knowledge

International

• 2023-2024: 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.
• 2018-2021: 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

• 2022-2023 : 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 VESPAI “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 2024 - December 2024: CNRS postdoctoral researcher at Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement (LIVE), Strasbourg University.
• September 2023 - August 2024: Temporary teaching and research fellow at École nationale du génie de l'eau et de l'environnement de Strasbourg (ENGEES). Co-affiliation with LIVE, Strasbourg University.
• Academic years 2022/2023 and 2023/2024: Part-time lecturer at Strasbourg University.
• January 2022 - July 2023: CNRS Postdoctoral researcher at 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 200 hours “équivalent-TD” (HETD) at ENGEES and 65 HETD at Strasbourg University.
• 2018-2019: about 12 HETD at UVSQ.

Supervision

• B. Clémence, March-August 2024, M1 Université Côte d'Azur (Nice). Topic: “Urban spatial prediction of air temperature via artificial intelligence methods”. Co-supervisors: R. Wenger, A. Puissant and N. Blond.
• L. Chambraud, February-August 2024, M2 Strasbourg University. Subject: “Diagnosis of a Strasbourg school vulnerable to urban overheating”. Co-supervisors: M. Kohler and N. Blond.
• U. Julien, February-August 2024, third-year ENGEES engineer. Topic: “Study of climate change in the Wieslauter region for aquatic fauna refuge areas”.
• G. Ponche, May-June 2022. M1 Strasbourg University. Topic: “Study of landuse in the Strasbourg region for urban climate simulation”. Co-supervisor : N. Blond.

Networks

• Eucor - The European Campus (2023-)
• Fédération de Recherche en Environnement et Durabilité (FERED, 2022-)
• Zone Atelier Environnementale et Urbaine (ZAEU, 2022-)
• French group of urban climatology (2022-)

• European Geosciences Union (EGU, 2020, 2023-)

Summer school

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

Laboratory life

• Lab council at LSCE (2018-2021)

Animation

• June 2024: Messenger at Tournée du Climat et de la Biodiversité (general public, including guided tours with students from elementary school and junior highschool) at the Centre culturel Marcel Marceau in Strasbourg.
• 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.

• 2024: Qualification in climatology (section 37), Conseil national des universités (CNU).
• 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).

Prepublications

• 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. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4659677
• Sajjad, S. H., Blond, N., Breton, F., & Clappier, A., (2023). 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

Accepted conference article

• El Bat, A. M. S., Breton, F., Guernouti, S., & Blond ,N. (2024). Exploring the drivers of urban microclimate: a multiparameter sensitivity analysis in Strasbourg, France. International Days on Thermal Science and Energy.

Published articles

• 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
• 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
• 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

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., Micolier, A., Abdellatif, M., Mendez, M. & Blond, N., “Effect of city and climate change on weather conditions, building thermal comfort and energy consumption: application to Strasbourg region”. EGU2024, Vienne, Autriche, 14-19 avril 2024.
• 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 septembre 2023.
• Breton, F., “Territorial climate change: understanding, mitigating and adapting” (No. EGU23-14056). Copernicus Meetings, Vienne, Autriche, 24-28 avril 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 avril 2023.
• Breton, F., Blond N., Micolier, A., & Mendez, M., “Evolution of building energy consumption and thermal comfort under climate change: application to Strasbourg”. Journée scientifique du groupe Climat urbain, Paris, 22 mars 2023.
• Labeyrie, L. & Breton, F., « Appel aux climato-impactologues : la paléoclimatologie, un savoir unique pour mobiliser les acteurs des territoires face à la transition climatique ». Colloque « Climat et Impacts », Orsay, 23-25 novembre 2020.
• 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 mai 2020.

Outreach

• Small course about heat stress with VESPAI colleagues at Robert Schumann elementary school, Strasbourg, July 2024.
• Small course about urban climate and climate change with VESPAI colleagues at Robert-Schuman elementary school, Strasbourg, June 2024.
• Guest lecture on climate change (general public) at Jardin des Sciences, Erstein, May 2024.
• Conference on climate change (general public) with Alsace Nature and teacher-researcher colleagues at ENGEES, Strasbourg, March 2024.
• Guest lecture on climate change (general public) at Jardin des Sciences, Molsheim, February 2024.
• Interview on heatwaves and climate adaptation in cities with Rue89 newspaper and N. Blond, Strasbourg, August 2023.
• Small course about climate change at Sainte-Madeleine school, Strasbourg, May 2023.
• Small course about climate change at Collège des Missions Africaines, Haguenau, October 2022.
• Guest lecture on climate change (general public) at Jardin des Sciences, Haguenau, October 2022.
• Conference-debate with L. Labeyrie on “changement climatique, comment préparer le Morbihan” (general public and decision-maker round-table), Elven, September 2020.

• French (native)
• English (scientific)
• Spanish (intermediary)
• German (basic)