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Robin
French, 32 years old WALDMAN

EDUCATION

2013 / 2016 PhD degree – Science of the Universe, Environment and Space
Université Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France
2011 / 2013 Engineering degree on Environmental Sciences and Specialized Master on
Public Policies for Sustainable Development.
Civil and Environmental Corps of Engineers – École des Ponts Paristech, France
2009 / 2011 M. Sc Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate, Remote Sensing (OACOS)
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) – École normale supérieure (ENS),
France
2008 / 2009 B. Sc Earth Sciences
Université Paris Sud – École normale supérieure, France
2006 / 2008 Preparatory school – Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences (BCPST)
Lycée Hoche, Versailles, France
International Chemistry Olympiades (IChO) – Member of 2007 French
preselection
2006 French Scientific Baccalauréat, European English option – Upper Honors

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 RESEARCH POSITIONS
2016 / ongoing Researcher at Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (CNRM)
Research topics: understanding the drivers of the thermohaline/overturning
circulation, role of mesoscale in ocean mean state and variability, the ocean as a
regulator of climate.
2013 / 2016 PhD, Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (CNRM), Université
Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (supervision: Samuel Somot, Marine
Herrmann)
« Multi-scale study of ocean deep convection in the Mediterranean sea: from
observations to climate modelling. »

 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
OM, in Nicolas Gonzalez, Robin Waldman, Gianmaria Sannino, Samuel Somot and
preparation Hervé Giordani, A new perspective on tidal mixing at the Strait of Gibraltar
from a very high-resolution model of the Mediterranean Sea

JPO 2020 Robin Waldman, Joël Hirschi, Aurore Voldoire, Christophe Cassou, Rym Msadek,
Clarifying the relation between AMOC and thermal wind: application to the
centennial variability in a coupled climate model

JAMES 2019 Séférian et al, Evaluation of CNRM Earth‐System model, CNRM‐ESM2‐1: role
of Earth system processes in present‐day and future climate

JAMES 2019 Voldoire et al, Evaluation of CMIP6 DECK experiments with CNRM-CM6-1
OM 2018 Natalija Dunić, Thomas Arsouze, Pierre Nabat, Robin Waldman, Ivica Vilibic,
Jadranka Sepic, Robert Precali, Romain Pennel, Hrvoje Mihanovic, Samuel
Somot, Gabriel Jorda, Florence Sevault, Performance of multi-decadal ocean
simulations in the Adriatic Sea.

GRL 2018b Robin Waldman, Nils Brüggemann, Anthony Bosse, Michael Spall, Samuel
Somot and Florence Sevault, Overturning the Mediterranean Thermohaline
Circulation.
Scientific M. Peharda, I. Vilibić, B.A. Black, K. Markulin, N. Dunić, T. Džoić, H. Mihanović,
Reports 2018 M. Gačić, S. Puljas, R. Waldman, Using bivalve chronologies for quantifying
environmental drivers in a semi-enclosed temperate sea.
GRL 2018a Robin Waldman, Samuel Somot, Marine Herrmann, Florence Sevault and Pal
Erik Isachsen, On the chaotic variability of deep convection in the
Mediterranean Sea.
JGR-O 2018 Testor et al, Multi-scale observations of deep convection in the northwestern
Mediterranean Sea during winter 2012-2013 from a multi-platform approach.

JGR-O 2017b Robin Waldman, Marine Herrmann, Samuel Somot, Thomas Arsouze, Rachid
Benshila, Anthony Bosse, Jerome Chanut, Herve Giordani, Florence Sevault and
Pierre Testor, How does mesoscale impact dense water formation? Answers
from an ensemble simulation of the intense 2012-2013 event in the
Northwestern Mediterranean Sea.
JGR-O 2017a Robin Waldman, Samuel Somot, Marine Herrmann, Anthony Bosse, Guy
Caniaux, Claude Estournel, Loic Houpert, Louis Prieur, Florence Sevault and
Pierre Testor, Modeling the intense 2012–2013 dense water formation event
in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea: Evaluation with an ensemble
simulation approach
JGR-O 2016 Waldman, R., S. Somot, M. Herrmann, F. Sevault, P. Testor, C. Estournel, L.
Prieur, D. Dausse, L. Coppola, L. Mortier, A. Bosse, An uncertainty framework
to estimate dense water formation rates: case study in the Northwestern
Mediterranean, Journal of Geophysical Research.
Climate Samuel Somot, Loic Houpert, Florence Sevault, Pierre Testor, Anthony Bosse,
Dynamics Isabelle Taupier-Letage, Marie-Noelle Bouin, Robin Waldman, Christophe
2016 Cassou, Emilia Sanchez-Gomez, Xavier Durrieu de Madron, Fanny Adloff, Pierre
Nabat, Marine Herrmann, Characterizing, modelling and understanding the
climate variability of the deep water formation in the North-Western
Mediterranean Sea

 REVIEW
2017 / ongoing Reviewer for the journals Ocean Science, Scientific Reports, Remote Sensing
and Journal of Geophysical Research

 CONFERENCES

2018-2020 DRAKKAR workshops – Grenoble, France

Talks: « Where does the downwelling of the Mediterranean thermohaline
circulation take place? » (2018), "On the mixed layer heat budget on intense
cooling events in the Mediterranean" (2020)
Poster: "An intense Arctic-driven centennial AMOC cycle in the CNRM-CM6
climate model" (2020)
2018 Ocean Sciences conference – Portland, USA
Poster « On the chaotic variability of the Mediterranean Thermohaline
Circulation. »
2015-2019 EGU Meetings – Vienna, Austria
 Talks: « Ocean deep convection in the Mediterranean sea: 2012-2013 case
study in the Gulf of Lions, from observations to modelling » (2015), "Does
intrinsic ocean variability impact ocean deep convection? Answers from eddy-
resolving ensemble simulations of the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea." (2017),
"Overturning of the Mediterranean Thermohaline Circulation" (2019)
Posters: « An uncertainty framework to estimate uncertainty in dense water
formation rates: case study in the Northwestern Mediterranean. » (2015), « How
does mesoscale impact ocean deep convection? Answers from ensemble
Northwestern Mediterranean Sea simulations. » (2017)
2015-2018 SIMED Workshops
Talks: "Role of preconditionning and mesoscale on ocean deep convection:
2012-2013 case study over the Gulf of Lions" (2015), "Effect of tidal and
background mixing on deep convection in the Gulf of Lions" (2017),
"Implementation of a double diffusion and tidal mixing scheme in the
NEMOMED12 model" (2018), "Overturning the Mediterranean Thermohaline
Circulation" (2018)
2014-2018 HyMeX workshops
Talks: « Ocean deep convection in the Mediterranean sea: 2012-2013 case study
in the Gulf of Lions, from observations to modelling. » (2014), « Impact of
mesoscale eddies on ocean deep convection in the Northwestern Mediterranean
sea. » (2015), « Does intrinsic ocean variability impact ocean deep convection?
Answers from eddy-resolving ensemble simulations of the Northwestern
Mediterranean Sea. » (2017), "Overturning the Mediterranean Thermohaline
Circulation." (2018),
Posters: « An Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) to assess
uncertainty in MOOSE large-scale estimates. » (2014), « How does mesoscale
impact ocean deep convection? Answers from ensemble Northwestern
Mediterranean Sea simulations. » (2017), "Evaluating PERLE network with an
Observing System Simulation Experiment" (2018)
2014-2019 MedCordex Workshops
Talks: « Ocean deep convection in the Mediterranean sea: 2012-2013 case
study in the Gulf of Lions, from observations to modelling. » (2014)

 PROJECTS
International Med-Cordex: Mediterranean region of the International CORDEX programme
(modelling of all the components of the regional climate system, 12 km RCM,
fully coupled RCSM). Med-CORDEX is currently the regional climate modelling
task of HyMeX (former HyMeX-TTM3) on-going
HyMeX: Study of the Mediterranean hydrological cycle and related extreme
events, 2010-2020
MerMex: Study of the Mediterranean Sea physics, biogeochemistry and marine
ecosystems, 2010-2020
MISTRALS: Meta-programme, also called Chantier Méditerranée, for the
integrated study of the Mediterranean at regional and local scales, 2010-2020.
ESM2025: European project aiming at developing the next generation of Earth
System Models
National Hymex-SIMED3, MISTRALS-Simed4: French coordination for an improved
modelling of the Mediterranean Sea using in particular the NEMOMED
configurations.
ANR-ASICS-MED: Evaluate the role of the ocean meso- and submeso-scale
processes in the dense water mass formation in the North-West Mediterranean
Sea, follwing the HyMeX-2013 field campaign.
  TEACHING - SUPERVISION
2018 Lectures of physical oceanography (Master's degree) and tutorials of bibliography
and ocean/climate modelling at UNAM, Mexico

2019 / ongoing Supervisor of Nicolas Gonzalez' PhD thesis: "On the role of exhanges at the
Strait of Gibraltar as a regulator of the Mediterranean climate."

OTHER SKILLS

 LANGUAGES
Fluently French (mother tongue), Spanish (bilingual), English (fluent, TOEIC 985/990 in
2012), Portuguese (fluent), Italian (good notions)
Some notions German, Thai

 COMPUTER SCIENCES
Numerical NEMO, AGRIF, ECLIS
modelling
Programming Python, Matlab, Fortran, Shell, NCO/CDO, SOSIE
Office Latex, Open Office