Alain Potrel

I was born in Granville (Normandy, France) in April 1964 and stayed there until the end of my secondary school. Then I moved to Rennes (Brittany, France) to attend the University and stayed there more or less ten years, the time I completed my PhD in Earth Sciences. My PhD field trip was in the Sahara desert (Mauritania) and represents my first experience outside Europe.
In 1995 I was hired by a Peruvian gold mine and stayed five months in the Peruvian Andes. Then I started a two years and a half contract as a visiting lecturer at the Federal University of Brasilia (Brazil).
I arrived in Canada in 1999, first for a three years contract at the University of Quebec in Montreal and then at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John's where I became a Canadian citizen in July 2009. I moved to Tucson, Arizona, with my wife and cat in November 2010 and plan to stay there, for the moment...
Between my different contracts directly linked to my field of study I had a lot of periods of unemployment during which I had to work in various jobs and places: encyclopedia seller in Paris, house renovator in Normandy, dishwasher, doorman and bartender in St John's, and so on...
I started to paint in September 2005 and since this date I h...

PhD in Earth Sciences
University of Rennes I - France