Curriculum vitae

Condensed academic CV highlighting research leadership, space missions, funded projects, supervision, and professional experience.

This page provides a concise overview of my academic activities. For research outputs and open tools, see the Publications and Resources pages.

Current appointment

Position CNRS Research Scientist (Chargé de recherche), HDR
Institution Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Cité, CNRS
Research groups Planetary and Space Sciences and External Envelopes Geochemistry
ORCID 0000-0003-2192-4416

Research leadership

  • Current

    PHYGRAV Platform — Principal Investigator

    Physics-based models, surrogate tools, and decision support for hydro-gravitational hazards

    • Landslides, avalanches, tsunamis, and hydro-sedimentary events.
  • 2023–present

    Natural Hazards Master's programme — Head

    Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris / Université Paris Cité

  • Current

    Planetary Research Cooperative — Board member

    Community-led and diamond open-access publishing in planetary science

Space mission involvement

  • 2026–present

    EnVision — EuroSAR Science Team

    European Space Agency mission to Venus

    • Scientific preparation of radar investigations of Venusian surface processes and geological evolution.
  • 2016–2022

    InSight

    NASA geophysical mission to Mars

    • Environmental and surface-process seismology, including impacts, atmospheric activity, and mass wasting.
  • 2010–2017

    Cassini RADAR

    NASA / ESA / ASI Cassini-Huygens mission

    • Radar analysis of Titan's dunes, lakes, landscapes, and surface properties.

Selected projects and grants

  • 2026–present

    AVALIASIS — Multimodal detection of avalanches in seismic networks

    GdR IASIS

    • Principal investigator; real-time detection and classification using seismic data and machine learning.
  • 2026–present

    AVASEIS-3D — 3D Earth Observation to Decode Avalanche Seismology

    CNES Research Programme

    • Principal investigator; field seismology, remote sensing, and modeling of snow avalanches.
  • 2025–present

    LISTEN-FLASH — Lunar Impact's Seismic and Telescopes European Network for Flash

    European lunar impact and seismology collaboration

    • Collaborator; joint interpretation of impact flashes and lunar seismic signals.
  • 2024–present

    STERREO — Sediment Transport in Steep Terrains from Remote Sensing and Geochemistry

    CNES Research Programme

    • Principal investigator; sediment transfer in Alpine and tropical catchments.
  • 2021–2023

    EROSAT — Erosion from Geochemistry and Remote Sensing of Landslides in the Tropics

    LabEx UnivEarthS

    • Principal investigator.
  • 2022

    SIERRA — Remote-Sensing Modeling from Archived Glacier Images

    INSU PNTS

    • Principal investigator.

Supervision and teaching

  • Current doctoral supervision
    • Lorraine Delaroque — Titan seismology and attenuation in planetary ice shells (30%, since 2024).
    • Milan Mauro — Lunar environmental seismology and preparation for the Farside Seismic Suite (80%, from October 2026).
  • Completed doctoral supervision
    • Yassine Boukhari (2025), Coline Hopquin (2025), Dung Tri Nguyen (2024), Alice Jacob (2022), Amande Roque-Bernard (2022), and Chloé Daudon (2020).
  • Graduate and undergraduate research
    • Regular supervision of MSc and BSc projects in geomorphology, remote sensing, planetary science, seismology, and numerical modeling.
    • Research topics and former students are listed on the People page.
  • Teaching leadership
    • Head of the Natural Hazards Master's programme at IPGP / Université Paris Cité since 2023.

Professional experience

  • 2017–present

    CNRS Research Scientist

    Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

  • 2017

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

  • 2015–2016

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    CEA / AIM, Saclay, France

  • 2013–2014

    CNES Postdoctoral Fellow

    AIM, Saclay, France

  • 2010–2012

    Postdoctoral Scholar

    California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

Education

  • 2025

    Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR)

    Université Paris Cité

    • Geomorphic Transports in Terrestrial and Planetary Critical Zones.
  • 2010

    PhD in Planetary Geophysics

    Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris / Université Paris Diderot

    • Thesis: Dynamique des instabilités gravitaires par modélisation et télédétection : applications aux exemples martiens.
    • Advisor: Anne Mangeney; co-advisor: Daniel Mège (LPG Nantes).