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I am a seismologist, with a focus on deep Earth structures and processes, using primarily array seismic methods but recently also rotational seismology. Especially the D" region, the CMB, the mantle transition zone are topic in my group. We also contribute to the mitigation of wind turbine generated seismic noise and seismic waves in connection of the Einstein Telescope for gravitational wave detection, and look at ice quakes.

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Employment (6)

Universität Münster: Münster, Northrhine-Westfalia, DE

2009-01-01 to present | Professor for Geophysics (Seismology) (Dept. of Physics, Institute of Geophysics)
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Christine Thomas

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland: Copenhagen, DK

2024-11-01 to 2027-11-01 | adjunct Professor (Geophysics and Sedimentary Basins)
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University of Liverpool: Liverpool, GB

2001 to 2008 | Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Dept. of Earth Sciences)
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University of Leeds: Leeds, Leeds, GB

1999 to 2001 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Dept of Earth Sciences)
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, GB

1995 to 1995 | Visting scientist (Earth Sciences)
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British Antarctic Survey: Cambridge, GB

1995 to 1995 | Visting Scientist
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Education and qualifications (3)

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Fakultät für Biologie und Psychologie: Göttingen, Niedersachsen, DE

1996 to 1999 | PhD (Dr rer nat)
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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg: Erlangen, DE

1991 to 1994 | Diplom (Physics)
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Philipps-Universität Marburg: Marburg, DE

1988-10-01 to 1991-04-01 | Vordiplom (Physics)
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Professional activities (3)

Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft: Hannover, DE

2020 | Ernst-von-Rebeur-Paschwitz-Preis
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Royal Astronomical Society: London, GB

2008 | Fowler Award for Geophysics
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Université de Lyon: Lyon, FR

2008 to 2008 | visiting Professor (Sciences de la Terre)
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Works (50 of 109)

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Mantle discontinuities and reflectors beneath the Arctic Ocean and Aleutian-Alaska subduction zone: Evidence for MORB crust at the top of the lower mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2025-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Y. Yuan; J.K. Magali; X. Deng; D. Sun; C. Thomas
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Constraining D" seismic anisotropy with reflections and splitting

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Christine Thomas; Angelo Pisconti
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Deriving mantle temperatures from global seismic models: A quantitative analysis in the light of uncertain mineralogy and limited tomographic resolution

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Gabriel Robl; Bernhard Schuberth; Isabel Papanagnou; Christine Thomas
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Geodynamic-mineralogical predictions of mantle transition zone seismic structure

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Isabel Papanagnou; Bernhard S. A. Schuberth; Christine Thomas; Hans-Peter Bunge
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Imaging deep subducted lithosphere beneath the Indian Ocean with seismic source array recordings

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Christine Thomas; Björn Holger Heyn
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Mantle discontinuities beneath Arctic ocean and Aleutian-Alaska subduction zone

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Ye Yuan; John Keith Magali; Christine Thomas
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Modeling pressure-dependent seismic anisotropy in the lower mantle reveals anisotropic discontinuity at 1000 km

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: John Keith Magali; Christine Thomas; Jeffrey Gay; Angelo Pisconti; Sebastien Merkel
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Waveform Fitting of Receiver Functions for Enhanced Retrieval of Crustal Structure in the Presence of Sediments

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2024-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Stephen Akinremi; Mark van der Meijde; Christine Thomas; Juan Carlos Afonso; Elmer Ruigrok; Islam Fadel
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Pressure-dependent large-scale seismic anisotropy induced by non-Newtonian mantle flow

Geophysical Journal International
2024-05-06 | Journal article
Contributors: J K Magali; E E Ledoux; C Thomas; Y Capdeville; S Merkel
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Deep Earth rotational seismology

Geophysical Journal International
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85165224398

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Abreu, R.; Durand, S.; Rost, S.; Thomas, C.
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Christine Thomas via Scopus - Elsevier

Deformation Mechanisms, Microstructures, and Seismic Anisotropy of Wadsleyite in the Earth's Transition Zone

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85177084081

Part of ISSN: 15252027
Contributors: Ledoux, E.E.; Saki, M.; Gay, J.P.; Krug, M.; Castelnau, O.; Zhou, W.-Y.; Zhang, J.S.; Chantel, J.; Hilairet, N.; Bykov, M. et al.
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Christine Thomas via Scopus - Elsevier

Effects of scattering parameters on seismic observables of PKP precursors and apparent D″ reflections – A parameter study

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85173147848

Part of ISSN: 00319201
Contributors: Hiemer, V.; Thomas, C.
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Christine Thomas via Scopus - Elsevier

Geodynamic predictions of seismic structure and discontinuity topography of the mantle transition zone

Geophysical Journal International
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85160294476

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Papanagnou, I.; Schuberth, B.S.A.; Thomas, C.
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Christine Thomas via Scopus - Elsevier

Mineralogy, fabric and deformation domains in D″ across the southwestern border of the African LLSVP

Geophysical Journal International
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85144618136

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Pisconti, A.; Creasy, N.; Wookey, J.; Long, M.D.; Thomas, C.
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Christine Thomas via Scopus - Elsevier

The seismic attenuation signature of collisional orogens and sedimentary basins within the Carpathian Orogen

Global and Planetary Change
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85150786400

Part of ISSN: 09218181
Contributors: Borleanu, F.; Petrescu, L.; Seghedi, I.; Thomas, C.; De Siena, L.
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Christine Thomas via Scopus - Elsevier

Studying inner core and lower mantle structure with a combination of PKP and converted SKP and PKS waves

Geophysical Journal International
2023-09-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Samira Hosseini; Christine Thomas; Edward J Garnero; Rafael Abreu
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On the Importance of Using Directional Information in the Search for Lower Mantle Reflectors

The Seismic Record
2023-04-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Federica Rochira; Christine Thomas
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A New Seismic Phase to Detect Mid‐Mantle Scatterers

Geophysical Research Letters
2023-01-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Y. Yuan; D. Sun; C. Thomas
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Imaging seismic wave-fields with AlpArray and neighboring European networks

International Journal of Earth Sciences
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85124711192

Part of ISSN: 14373262 14373254
Contributors: Tesch, M.; Stampa, J.; Meier, T.; Kissling, E.; Hetényi, G.; Friederich, W.; Weber, M.; Heit, B.; Hetényi, G.; Abreu, R. et al.
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Christine Thomas via Scopus - Elsevier

Kinetic effects on the 660-km-phase transition in mantle upstreams and seismological implications

Geophysical Journal International
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85135217065

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Lessing, S.; Dobson, D.P.; Rost, S.; Cobden, L.; Thomas, C.
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Mapping the edge of subducted slabs in the lower mantle beneath southern Asia

Geophysical Journal International
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85130113559

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Rochira, F.; Schumacher, L.; Thomas, C.
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Christine Thomas via Scopus - Elsevier

Textures Induced by the Coesite‐Stishovite Transition and Implications for the Visibility of the X‐Discontinuity

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2022-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Matthias Krug; Morvarid Saki; Estelle Ledoux; Jeffrey P. Gay; Julien Chantel; Anna Pakhomova; Rachel Husband; Arno Rohrbach; Stephan Klemme; Christine Thomas et al.
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UNIBRA/DSEBRA: The German Seismological Broadband Array and Its Contribution to AlpArray—Deployment and Performance

Seismological Research Letters
2022-07-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Antje Schlömer; Joachim Wassermann; Wolfgang Friederich; Michael Korn; Thomas Meier; Georg Rümpker; Christine Thomas; Frederik Tilmann; Joachim Ritter
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Reduction of wind-turbine-generated seismic noise with structural measures

Wind Energy Science
2022-06-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Rafael Abreu; Daniel Peter; Christine Thomas
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Generation of Reflections and PKP Precursors From a Scattering Layer in D″

Geophysical Research Letters
2022-02-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Vanessa Hiemer; Christine Thomas
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Reduction of windturbine generated seismic noise with structural measures

2022-01-25 | Preprint
Contributors: Rafael Abreu; Daniel Peter; Christine Thomas
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D" reflection polarities inform lowermost mantle mineralogy

2022-01-05 | Preprint
Contributors: Christine Thomas; Laura Cobden; Art R. T. Jonkers
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On the wobbles of phase-velocity dispersion curves

Geophysical Journal International
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85099634448

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Kolínský, P.; Bokelmann, G.; Hetényi, G.; Abreu, R.; Allegretti, I.; Apoloner, M.-T.; Aubert, C.; Besançon, S.; De Berc, M.B.; Bokelmann, G. et al.
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Christine Thomas via Scopus - Elsevier

Seismic and mineral physics constraints on the D" layer

Mantle Convection and Surface Expressions
2021 | Book chapter
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Seismic and Mineral Physics Constraints on the D” Layer

Mantle Convection and Surface Expressions
2021 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85113709510

Contributors: Jackson, J.M.; Thomas, C.
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Detection and modelling of strong topography of mid-mantle structures beneath the North Atlantic

Geophysical Journal International
2021-12-16 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0956-540X
Part of ISSN: 1365-246X
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Modeling of Seismic Anisotropy Observations Reveals Plausible Lowermost Mantle Flow Directions Beneath Siberia

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2021-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Neala Creasy; Angelo Pisconti; Maureen D. Long; Christine Thomas
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Sensor Validation and Diagnostic Potential of Smartwatches in Movement Disorders

Sensors
2021-04-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Julian Varghese; Catharina Marie van Alen; Michael Fujarski; Georg Stefan Schlake; Julitta Sucker; Tobias Warnecke; Christine Thomas
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Dehydration Melting Below the Undersaturated Transition Zone

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85080045817

Part of ISSN: 15252027
Contributors: Panero, W.R.; Thomas, C.; Myhill, R.; Pigott, J.S.
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Location and characteristics of the X-discontinuity beneath SW Morocco and the adjacent shelf area using P-wave receiver functions

Geophysical Journal International
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85099642044

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Rein, T.; Hannemann, K.; Thomas, C.; Korn, M.
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The signal of outermost-core stratification in body-wave and normal-mode data

Geophysical Journal International
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85094887774

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Van Tent, R.; Deuss, A.; Kaneshima, S.; Thomas, C.
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Small‐Scale Scattering Heterogeneities in the Lowermost Mantle From a Global Analysis of PKP Precursors

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2020-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiaolong Ma; Christine Thomas
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An investigation of seismic anisotropy in the lowermost mantle beneath Iceland

Geophysical Journal International
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85073419232

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Wolf, J.; Creasy, N.; Pisconti, A.; Long, M.D.; Thomas, C.
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Causes for polarity reversals of PP precursor waves reflecting off the 410 km discontinuity beneath the Atlantic

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85057543070

Part of ISSN: 00319201
Contributors: Saki, M.; Thomas, C.; Cobden, L.; Abreu, R.; Buchen, J.
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Christine Thomas via Scopus - Elsevier

Constraining lowermost mantle anisotropy with body waves: A synthetic modelling study

Geophysical Journal International
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85063750724

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Creasy, N.; Pisconti, A.; Long, M.D.; Thomas, C.; Wookey, J.
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Constraints on D″ beneath the North Atlantic region from P and S traveltimes and amplitudes

Geophysical Journal International
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85065994143

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Durand, S.; Thomas, C.; Jackson, J.M.
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Discriminating Between Causes of D″ Anisotropy Using Reflections and Splitting Measurements for a Single Path

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85065985801

Part of ISSN: 21699356 21699313
Contributors: Pisconti, A.; Thomas, C.; Wookey, J.
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Investigating the seismic structure and visibility of dynamic plume models with seismic array methods

Geophysical Journal International
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85073443043

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Stockmann, F.; Cobden, L.; Deschamps, F.; Fichtner, A.; Thomas, C.
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Localized ultra-low velocity zones at the eastern boundary of Pacific LLSVP

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85057893141

Part of ISSN: 0012821X
Contributors: Ma, X.; Sun, X.; Thomas, C.
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Christine Thomas via Scopus - Elsevier

Mapping lithological boundaries in mines with array seismology and in situ acoustic emission monitoring

Geophysical Journal International
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85074454526

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Pisconti, A.; Plenkers, K.; Philipp, J.; Thomas, C.
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Kinetics and detectability of the bridgmanite to post-perovskite transformation in the Earth's D″ layer

Nature Communications
2019-12-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Christopher Langrand; Denis Andrault; Stéphanie Durand; Zuzana Konôpková; Nadège Hilairet; Christine Thomas; Sébastien Merkel
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Erratum: Constraints on the structure of the crust and lithosphere beneath the Azores Islands from teleseismic receiver functions (Geophysical Journal International (2018) 213:2 (824–835) DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggy022)

Geophysical Journal International
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85126599241

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Spieker, K.; Rondenay, S.; Ramalho, R.; Thomas, C.; Helffrich, G.
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Improvement of coda phase detectability and reconstruction of global seismic data using frequency-wavenumber methods

Geophysical Journal International
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85042152543

Part of ISSN: 1365246X 0956540X
Contributors: Schneider, S.; Thomas, C.; Dokht, R.M.H.; Gu, Y.J.; Chen, Y.
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Irregular Transition Layer Beneath the Earth's Inner Core Boundary From Observations of Antipodal PKIKP and PKIIKP Waves

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2018-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Januka Attanayake; Christine Thomas; Vernon F. Cormier; Meghan S. Miller; Keith D. Koper
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Using SP precursor waves to detect upper-mantle discontinuities

Geophysical Journal International
2018-09-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0956-540X
Contributors: Anne-Sophie Reiss; Christine Thomas; Thomas Lecocq
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