Research projects

Coordinators : James Badro

October 2021 - October 2026

European partnership

ERC SEPtiM - solidification of earth’s primitive mantle

Coordinators : 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...

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 : Eric van Hullebusch, Ata Utku AKÇİL

November 2020 - November 2023

National partnership

Bio-assisted Closed loop recycling of E-Mobility Metals from waste PCBs and Li-Ion Batteries (BaCLEM)

Downstream treatment of pregnant leaching solutions and recovery of critical metals in marketable forms (metal carbonates, metal sulphides and nanopow...

Coordinators : Marc Benedetti

September 2020 - August 2023

National partnership

Uranium speciation and competition between organic matter, calcium and carbonates

The project will quantify the evolution of the proportion of U(VI) associated with MON as a function of MON types, total U concentration and selected ...

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 ...

Coordinators : Guillaume Avice

January 2020

National partnership

CNES - EHVAV

The objective of the project is to provide experimental constraints on potential elemental and/or isotopic fractionation induced by high speed samplin...