Louis Kalisky is taken on at ThéMA for seven months in the frame of the research project « rétroplanning » supervised by Thomas Buhler. Louis has received a master degree ADAUR in 2024 at the University of Franche-Comté.           Hugo Dalle also holds a master degree ADAUR. He is taken on for eight months in the frame of the research project FOREST’ADN funded by the regional council Bourgogne Franche-Comté and the Graduate School Transbio (research laboratories ThéMA and Chrono-Environnement). Hugo will map and identify forest cover that...

Melissa Poupelin is defending her thesis named : "Geoprospective and climate modelling of urban vegetation in a perspective of adaptation to heat waves: Dijon Métropole as a study case." This work was conducted under the supervision of Thomas Thévenin and Yves Richard, with the guidance of Julien Pergaud, within the ThéMA laboratory (UMR CNRS 6049, UFC-uB) and the research team at the Climate Research Center of the Biogeosciences laboratory (UMR CNRS 6282, uB) in Dijon. The defense will take place publicly on Monday, December 16th, at 2:00 PM, in the amphitheater of the Maison des...

Julie Gravier studies long-term settlement dynamics. Two questions drive her research: why and how do settlement systems persist in the same places for extremely long periods of time? What is the political role of individuals and groups in perpetuating the social functioning and spatial organization of settlement systems? Her aim is to understand the ways in which societies inhabit the world, taking into account very long-term dynamics and the temporal shifts in certain decisions on other processes. To achieve this, she studies a wide range of chronological and cultural cases, mainly on...

  The thesis prize 2024 of the French Complex Systems Society (CSS/France) awarded six young doctors among eighteen finalists. It was attributed during a colloquium organized by the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, the 19-20th of September 2024. Hanae El Gouj’s thesis has also been selected by the French National University Council to compete for the thesis prize of the Comité National Français de Géographie (CNFG), which will be attributed during the International Geography Festival in October 2024. Hanae El Gouj’s thesis, entitled “Analysis, modeling and simulation of road network...

  The book was published in July 2024 by Wiley-ISTE. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the concepts and methods used in fractal analysis and modeling in order to study the spatial distribution of human settlements. The main concepts and mathematical tools are reviewed, and emphasis is placed on the practical benefits of their application and the pitfalls to be avoided when using them. The first part of the book is devoted to the basic concepts and geometric reference figures required for fractal analysis in human geography. In the second part, the principles of four...

Manon Kohler organizes this workshop with two invited speakers: Mathias Jehling and Casper Kleiner from the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (Dresden, Germany). The workshop will take place at 10:00 am in the Geography Department of Strasbourg. Broadcasting: https://bbb.unistra.fr/b/cor-p72-tnk-avx Mathias Jehling is senior researcher at Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) in Dresden, Germany, where he leads the research group on “Urban Structure and Policy”. His focus is on geographic information in the planning context....

  He will be assisted by Cécile Tannier and Thomas Thévenin, appointed as deputy directors.Having joined the laboratory in 2019, Samuel Carpentier-Postel is Professor. He succeeds Jean-Christophe Foltête, who held this position for 12 years.    

This thesis named "Analysis, modeling and simulation of road network morphogenesis based on geohistorical data: understanding past patterns to plan future cities" was directed by Claire Lagesse and Cécile Tannier.   The defense will take place in the UFR SLHS (salon Préclin) in Besançon, on december the 15th. You will also be able to attend the defense by videoconference. If you would like, please contact Hanae El Gouj : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.       Defense jury Anne Bretagnolle -...

  The defense will take place in the UFR SLHS (salon Préclin) in Besançon, on november the 23th. This work was directed by Jean-Christophe Foltête and Emeline Comby.   Defense jury : Jean-Christophe FOLTETE, Professor, University de Franche-Comté Emeline COMBY, Associate researcher, University Lumière Lyon 2 Youssef DIAB, Professor, University Gustave Eiffel Pascal MARTY, Professor, CNRS-Maison Française d’Oxford and University  Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Rapporteur Magalie FRANCHOMME, Associate researcher, University de Lille Corinne LARRUE, Emeritus professor,...

Sima Saadi is defending her PhD thesis on april 19th, at 9 am In ThéMA main meeting room, 4 Boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon. This thesis was directed by Jean-Philippe Antoni, Geographer, University Professor, at the University of Burgundy, and Co-directed by Hossein Karimzadeh, Urban planner, University Professor, at the University of Tabriz.   Defense jury : Dominique Badariotti, Professor, University of Strasbourg, France (President) Saeed Zanganeh Shahraki‬, Associate Professor, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Iran Antoine Paccoud, Research Scientist, Luxembourg...