Christophe Neff (born 10 June 1964 in Tübingen, West Germany) is a Franco-German [1] geographer, working on Mediterranean ecosystems, the geography of the Mediterranean Basin and fire ecology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
[2] He is considered as one of the rare German experts on the Mediterranean ecosystem and fire ecology.
[5] Since 2009, Neff regularly contributes to a blog called 'Paysages' [6] (engl.= landscapes) at le Monde.fr, which is mostly written in French, sometimes in German, and very occasionally in English.
In the same post he also expressed his regrets that the cultural gap between France and Germany had never been as large as in 2019,[7] reminding readers that the original idea had been to create a franco-german blog.
[9] In January 2022, he noted that a large part of the links from the times when paysages was still hosted by le Monde.fr had disappeared in the meantime[10]