Armelle is a geochemist and paleoclimatologist with a focus on regional and global paleoclimate and environmental change. Since April 2025, she has been working in the Climatology and the Biosphere group (AG Rehfeld) at the University of Tübingen. Her work involves an extensive high-resolution monitoring program at several caves sites in the Swabian Alb, including Hohle Fels and Schertelshöhle, where she records temperature, relative humidity, drip water dynamics, rainfall amount, and the isotopic composition of precipitation in the surrounding area. These modern systems serve as analogues to improve our understanding of past climate variability and human–environment interactions, and help asses how environmental signals–such as trace elements and biomolecules–are recorded and preserved in cave minerals under present-day conditions.
Mew Member: Armelle Ballian
