Research projects

Coordinator(s): Julien Bouchez

September 2023

Campaign and mission, European partnership

PALAVAS: Present and pAst weathering fLuxes from tropicAl Volcanic islAndS

On the geologic time scale, chemical weathering of silicate rocks is the largest sink for atmospheric CO2. It has been suggested that the weathering o...

Coordinator(s): 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...

Coordinator(s): Nobuaki Fuji

October 2022 - December 2027

National partnership

MuseSeLFiE

when science sings to your heart

Coordinator(s): Julien Bouchez, Marc Benedetti

October 2022

International partnership outside Europe

TOF-COL

The formation of nano-sized (between 1 nm and 1 µm) particles is one of the most under-constrained processes of soil formation, while their export by ...

Coordinator(s): 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.

Coordinator(s): Sébastien Rodriguez, Conor A. Nixon

July 2022 - December 2023

International partnership outside Europe

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Guaranteed Time Observer cycle 1: Titan Climate, Composition and Clouds

We focus on the extremely broad capability of the combined JWST instrument suite to advance our understanding of Titan’s gases, hazes, condensates (cl...

Coordinator(s): 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...

Coordinator(s): Magali Ader

January 2022 - December 2025

National partnership

ANR SUBSILAKE - english version

 The ANR SUBSILAKE is an interdisciplinary project funded for 4 years (2022-2025) by the French National Research Agency (ANR). It is led by Magali Ad...

Coordinator(s): Frederic Moynier

January 2022

National partnership

MAMI - Medical Applications of Stable Isotopes

Elements such as Cu and Zn play critical roles in normative brain function, and thus their dysregulation is intrinsically linked to neurodegenerative ...

Coordinator(s): Eric van Hullebusch

November 2021 - April 2025

European partnership

Preventing Recalcitrant Organic Mobile Industrial chemicalS for Circular Economy in the Soil-sediment-water system

The project targets chemical pollutants often identified in brownfields: additives, chlorinated solvents, but especially perfluorinated compounds (PFA...

Coordinator(s): James Badro

October 2021 - October 2026

European partnership

ERC SEPtiM - solidification of earth’s primitive mantle

Coordinator(s): Sébastien Rodriguez, Sandrine Vinatier

January 2021 - December 2025

National partnership

ANR project : 3D radiative transfer in cloudy planetary atmospheres: applications to Titan, Venus and Mars

The main objective of this project is to develop a full 3D radiative transfer (RT) model in spherical geometry for the study of horizontally heterogen...