PhDs

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 2019 - April 2023

In progress

Seismological Monitoring of Calving Events in Greenland: A Machine Learning Approach.

Greenland and other polar regions are highly sensitive to global warming. The impact of climate change on Greenland's glaciers can be seen through an ...

October 2019 - March 2023

Defended

Towards a dynamic view of slip along faults

Slip modes are various along a fault: rapid through an earthquake, steady slow at the tectonic plate velocity or as transient pulses, called slow slip...

October 2019

In progress

Tracking millenal-scale climate and environnemental change across eurasian loess

The cyclicity of glacial and interglacial conditions, triggered by variations in Earth’s orbital parameters (Milanković cycles), favor over mid-latitu...

September 2019 - December 2022

Defended

Spatio-temporal dynamics of the magmatic plumbing systems, towards an « early-warning clock ». Application to Dominica island (Lesser Antilles) and Kamchatka (Russia)

Volcanic eruptions are among the most devastating events on Earth. In a subduction context, eruptions generally involve differentiated magmas: after l...

September 2019 - June 2023

Defended

Thermal analysis of (bio)carbonates for the search for traces of life in extraterrestrial environments

The search for organic compounds related to life in extraterrestrial environments is currently the main strategy to highlight a possible extinct or ex...

September 2019 - December 2022

Defended

Tracking the long term carbon cycling in subduction zones

The long-term carbon cycle has major implications on a global scale, notably on the atmosphere composition and on the emergence and persistence of lif...

October 2018 - July 2022

Defended

Biological, structural, and chemical controls on manganese mineralization

In natural environments, microorganisms are mostly organized in the form of biofilms, composed of microbial cells and self-secreted extracellular poly...

October 2018 - February 2022

Defended

Contribution of the West Andean flank in Northern Chile to early stages of the Andean orogeny: insights from structural geology, thermochronology and analog modeling

Using a variety of approaches (structural geology, thermochronology, analog modeling), this PhD project aimed at providing answers to the following qu...

October 2018 - April 2022

Defended

Detection and classification of volcano-seismic signals of la Soufrière de Guadeloupe volcano by machine learning

Seismic activity at La Soufrière volcano of Guadeloupe is composed of various transient signals, which are classified manually by the Observatoire Vol...

October 2018 - January 2023

Defended

Tephro and cryptotephrostratigraphy of deep-sea marine sequences. What could be learnt from Montagne Pelée volcano and Young Toba Tuff eruption?

Understanding past volcanic history in terms of frequency, chronology, magmatic evolution and eruptive dynamics is a fundamental and crucial challenge...