Odilon Joël Houndegnonto is a post-doctoral fellow at LOPS, with a PhD in physical oceanography from the Université de Brestagne Occidentale (France). His research focuses on ocean physics with links to societal needs, including the response of the ocean to climate change through air-sea interactions at regional to global scales, and freshwater plume dynamics (rivers, sea-ice melting and precipitation). He has used in situ and remote sensing observations, combined with numerical model simulation outputs.