Origins Theme Projects

Coordinators : Guillaume Avice

March 2023 - February 2028

European partnership

ERC - ATTRACTE

Planetary atmospheres are fundamental reservoirs controlling the habitability of planets. The chemical and isotopic compositions of atmospheric consti...

Coordinators : Elvira Astafyeva

January 2023 - December 2026

IONO-DIET

The Project IONO-DIET aims to develop, for the first time, ionosphere-based methods that will detect earthquakes and tsunamis in near-real-time (NRT),...

Coordinators : Mark Wieczorek

September 2022

National organization

Ile-de-France Planets

Ile-de-France Planets is a community of planetary scientists who work in Paris and the surrounding region of Ile-de-France.

Coordinators : Marc Chaussidon

April 2022 - April 2024

National partnership

INSU PNP : SiChert

Triple Si isotopes in archean cherts The goal of this project is to determine the fractionation systematics of the 3 silicon isotopes during silica...

Coordinators : James Badro

October 2021 - October 2026

European partnership

ERC SEPtiM - solidification of earth’s primitive mantle

Coordinators : Frederic Moynier

January 2021

European partnership

ERC - METAL

Understanding the formation and early evolution of terrestrial planets is one of the most important goals of science. The objectives of METAL (Making ...

Coordinators : Sebastien Charnoz, Patrick Michel

January 2021 - December 2028

Campaign and mission, European partnership

HERA mission (ESA)

I (Sébastien Charnoz) am part of the science team. I am a co-I of the workpackage 3 "Dynamics". The objective is to understand how the orbit of Dimorp...

Coordinators : Mark Wieczorek

January 2021

International partnership outside Europe

Lunar Vertex (NASA)

Co-investigator of the Lunar Vertex (NASA) rover. Launch towards the Moon: 2024

Coordinators : Sebastien Charnoz

January 2021 - December 2030

International partnership outside Europe

MMX mission - MIRS instrument

Coordinators : Marc Chaussidon

December 2020 - November 2024

National partnership

ANR-20-CE49-011X : MIFs

Mass-independent isotopic fractionations in cosmochemistry The aim of this project is to explore the existence of mass-independent isotopic fracti...

Coordinators : Sebastien Charnoz

January 2020 - December 2025

National partnership

ANR - DISKBUILD

This project aims at better understanding the formation of the protoplanetary disk starting from the infalling of the molecular cloud, the formation a...

Coordinators : Sébastien Rodriguez

January 2020

National partnership

APR CNES: Development of super-resolution mapping methods for Icy moons: Applications to Titan and future observations of Ganymede and Callisto by ESA's JUICE mission

Preparing the forthcoming JUICE mission by benefiting from super-resolution mapping methods developed for Cassini/Huygens data. JUICE mission aims ...