News

25 June 2025

General public, Institute Life, Press

Director position of the Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP)

The position of Director of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) is vacant as of March 24, 2026.

25 June 2025

Education, Events, General public

IPGP is now on Twitch!

Following on from the MOOC Notre Planète (Our Planet), which is still open for enrolment, the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris is launching its ...

17 June 2025

Events, Press, Research

Three ERC advanced grants awarded to the IPGP: new advances in cosmochemistry and planetary sciences

The Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP) has just been awarded three advanced grants from the European Research Council (ERC) for projects le...

16 June 2025

Press, Research

Active weather and organic chemistry on Titan: new observations from the James Webb space telescope

The James Webb space telescope (JWST), in collaboration with the ground-based Keck II telescope, has for the first time observed cloud convection in t...

16 June 2025

Press, Research

Evidence for a marine carbon recycling mechanism in Earth’s mantle

Recent work by PhD student Zhengyu Long, under the supervision of Frédéric Moynier, and their colleagues at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris...

11 June 2025

Institute Life

Tribute to Gilbert Hammouya (1946-2025)

It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Gilbert Hammouya, former CNRS chemical engineer and iconic figure at the Guadeloupe Volcano...

10 June 2025

Education, Events, General public, Institute Life

Subscribe to "Our Planet"

This MOOC proposed by a team from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris is aimed at anyone interested in Earth sciences and wishing to deepen the...

02 June 2025

Events, General public, Research

New Publication: Évolution(s). Science, art et littérature — A Unique Contribution from Nobuaki Fuji, Geophysicist at IPGP

The book Évolution(s). Science, art et littérature, published in May 2025 by Éditions Matériologiques, brings together contributions from 18 members o...

28 May 2025

Research

New insight into the origin of the Moon's depletion of volatile elements

The Moon's arid surface, devoid of liquid water and subject to extreme temperature variations, has long intrigued observers. These characteristics ind...

21 May 2025

Events, Research

VATMOS-SR: a space mission to understand the origin and evolution of Venus, candidate for the European Space Agency

Under the leadership of Guillaume Avice CNRS researchers at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) and Christophe Sotin (Pr. at Nantes Univ...

16 May 2025

General public, Institute Life

Junior Professor position “Geology of exoplanets”

A junior professor position is open to recruitment by Université Paris Cité for an assignment at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris on the the...

14 May 2025

Press, Research

Discovery of a crustal lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) topping a large magma reservoir at Axial volcano in the Eastern Pacific

A team from the United States and Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP) has imaged a crustal lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) as the t...