Benjamin comes from France and recently joined the Anthropocene Laboratory as a Research Assistant. He holds an Erasmus Mundus MSc in Marine Environment and Resources (MER+), completed across the University of Bordeaux, the University of the Basque Country, and the University of the Azores. For his thesis, he collaborated with the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and the University of British Columbia’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries to map the global carbon footprint of marine sand dredging, integrating vessel tracking data, geospatial modelling, and high-performance computing.

Prior to joining the Lab, Benjamin spent time as a visiting scholar at Stanford’s Woods Center for Ocean Solutions, where he worked on translating his thesis into a peer-reviewed manuscript, and contributed to ongoing research at emLab (UC Santa Barbara). Before focusing on marine sediment science, he worked in cetacean research, conducting photo-identification surveys with the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute in Spain and collecting field data for cetacean conservation in the north-western Mediterranean with the Swiss Cetacean Society, before pivoting through EU policy consulting at Steinbeis Europa Zentrum in Germany, where he worked on critical raw material supply security and sustainable sourcing strategies.
His broader interests lie in ocean-climate interactions, data-driven environmental assessment, and understanding how human pressures on the seafloor connect to planetary-scale carbon dynamics.