Research projects

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...

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...