Research projects

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...

Coordinators : Sébastien Rodriguez

January 2020

National partnership

CNES Research project: Dragonfly landing site characterization on Titan: geological and climatic history on the region of the Selk crater

Our project aims at implementing an original methodology coupling information extraction on the nature of Titan's surface (analysis of Cassini-Huygens...

Coordinators : Catherine Chauvel

January 2020 - December 2024

European partnership

ERC- SHRED

Studies of modern-day volcanic processes have revealed material surviving from the Hadean Eon, which occurred between 4.6 and 4 billion years ago. The...

Coordinators : Antoine Lucas

January 2020

Campaign and mission

EROSAT

Because of their role in erosion and sediment supply in rivers, gravity instabilities are one of the most important geophysical processes in explainin...

Coordinators : Frederic Moynier

January 2020

National partnership

HAYABUSA 2

Study of the materials of the asteroid Ryugu brought back by the JAXA Hayabusa2 mission in 2020.

Coordinators : Frederic Moynier

January 2020

National partnership

MMX

Preparation of the JAXA MMX sample return mission from Phobos (Mars moon) with a departure from Earth in 2024.

Coordinators : Cécile Ferrari

January 2020 - December 2023

International partnership outside Europe

PNP - PISTE - Properties of Icy Surfaces from their Thermal Emission

Coordinators : Eric van Hullebusch

November 2019 - April 2023

National partnership

Siderophores assisted Biorecovery of Technology Critical Elements: Gallium (Ga), germanium (Ge) and indium (In) from end-of-life products (SIDEREC)

The SIDEREC project is aiming at recovering Gallium (Ga), germanium (Ge) and indium (In) from end-of-life products end-of-life (EOL) products as a way...

Coordinators : Philippe Lognonné

September 2019 - February 2024

National partnership

Mars Geophysical InSight (MAGIS) ANR

The InSight mission (Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport) landed successfully on Mars on November 26, 2018....

Coordinators : Zacharie Duputel

January 2019 - June 2024

European partnership

PRESEISMIC

Exploring the nucleation of large earthquakes: cascading and unpredictable or slowly driven and forecastable