PhDs

October 2017 - December 2020
Defended
Climate evolution during the Cenozoic: impact of paleogeography, orbital parameters and CO2 on the Asian monsoon and the terrestrial biosphere
Doctoral dissertation - Delphine Tardif-Becquet Monsoons govern the climate of a large part of Asia from the Indian subcontinent to eastern China tod...

October 2017 - February 2021
Defended
Numerical modeling of dry and water-laden gravitational flows for quantitative hazard assessment
In this work, we assess the possibility to use empirical thin-layer models to enhance propagation hazard estimation for gravitational flows. Thin-laye...

October 2017 - July 2020
Defended
Records of paleomagnetic field intensity in sediments : Crossover approach between relative paleointensity and cosmogenic ¹ºBe
Doctoral dissertation - Tatiana Savranskaia The direction and strength of geomagnetic field had been evolving continuously in the past. One of the fe...

October 2016 - December 2019
Defended
Kinematics of active deformation of the Western Kunlun Range (Xinjiang, China): implications for potential seismic hazards
By combining structural geology and geomorphology, this PhD project aimed at quantifying the rates and loci of active deformation across the Western K...

September 2016 - January 2020
Defended
Observations and modeling of the seismic rupture development based on the analysis of source time functions
Our knowledge of earthquake source physics, giving rise to events of very different magnitudes, requires observations of a large population of earthqu...

September 2016 - December 2021
Defended
Entropic Unbalanced Optimal Transport: Application to Full-Waveform Inversion and Numerical Illustration Miao Yu (1)
Seismic tomography aims at inferring physical properties and reconstructing quantitatively the “model”, i.e. structures of the Earth interior, from th...