Planetology and Space Sciences Team PhDs

October 2021

In progress

Soil surface roughness mapping by multi-angular remote sensing

October 2021

In progress

Super-resolution mapping methods for icy moons

Development of super-resolution mapping methods for icy moons: applications to Enceladus, Titan and to future observations of Ganymede and Callisto by...

September 2021

In progress

Outgassing efficiency in terrestrial magma oceans

December 2020

In progress

Convecting mixing efficiency in rotating terrestrial magma oceans

October 2019 - December 2022

Defended

Modeling soil reflectance as a function of water content

Soil moisture content (SMC) is a key variable at the Earth’s surface. Its estimation is essential in many fields such as agriculture, hydrology, clima...

October 2019 - April 2022

Defended

Seismo-tectonic study of the seismic sources detected by the InSight mission in the Elysium Planitia province, Mars

The InSight mission landed in the Elysium Planitia province on Mars on November 26th, 2018. Since February 2019, thanks to the deployment of the SEIS ...

October 2015 - October 2018

Defended

Effect of the north/south dichotomy on the thermal structure and evolution of Mars

Mars’s crustal dichotomy in altitude and aspect between the southern highlands and the northern lowlands is one of the most stricking feature of the p...

October 2012 - November 2015

Defended

Dynamics of shallow magmatic intrusions: theory and application to the detection of planetary intrusion

Intrusive magmatism plays a fundamental role in the accretionary pro- cesses of terrestrial crust. Indeed, when magma is forced to the surface, only a...

October 2011 - November 2014

Defended

Ionospheric tomography by Over-The-Horizon radar

October 2010 - December 2013

Defended

Thermal evolution of the Moon

October 2005 - October 2008

Defended

Modeling the impact bombardment of the planets and moons, with applications to the dating of surfaces by crater counting

The aim of this work is to give new estimates of the cratering rate on the Moon and terrestrial planets. We first build a realistic impacting populati...