Ghilardi Matthieu

I am a tenure CNRS researcher based at the CEREGE laboratory (Aix-en-Provence, France). I am a geographer-geomorphologist with skills and expertise in the field of geoarcheology. Over the last decade, I supervised multidisciplinary research programs that aimed to reconstruct the relationships between Holocene landscape changes and the history of human occupation. My area of investigation mainly concerns the Mediterranean rivers (Nile, Rhone, and Aliakmon) and islands. Finally, I conducted paleoenvironmental works on Greek islands, including Crete, Euboea, and Thasos. These were all meant to distinguish natural parameters from anthropogenic forcing on landscape evolution, especially during the Minoan period (Crete) and from Geometric to Roman times (Euboea and Thasos), with a special interest in the sedimentary crisis observed during the Classical period.

My role within MERMAID is to compare geomorphological data with other lines of evidence produced by the program with the aim of unveiling how major changes of the coastal front may have impacted coastal resources and human activities related to their exploitation.