People
Current supervision, former team members, and student research projects.
I supervise and co-supervise doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate research at the interface of geomorphology, geophysics, remote sensing, and planetary science. These projects combine field observations, space-mission data, image analysis, seismology, numerical modeling, and machine learning.
Research topics span mass wasting and sediment transport on Earth; active surface processes on Mars, Titan, and the Moon; and mission-driven environmental seismology.
Current doctoral supervision
Lorraine Delaroque
CurrentTitan seismology and seismic attenuation in planetary ice shells, in preparation for NASA's Dragonfly mission.
Co-supervised with S. Rodriguez and T. Kawamura.
Milan Mauro
IncomingLunar environmental seismology and scientific preparation for NASA's Farside Seismic Suite.
Co-supervised with A. Mangeney.
Recent student projects
Selected MSc and BSc projects completed or undertaken in 2026.
Noémie Divoux
InSAR time-series analysis of the May 2025 Blatten rock avalanche.
Kean Ruzicska
Numerical modeling of rock avalanches for hazard scenarios and constraints on exposed infrastructure.
Fidèle Mochael
Detection and analysis of boulder avalanches on the Moon.
Ségal Le Roy
Multiscale characterization of bare-soil roughness.
PhD alumni
| Name | Year | Research | Supervision |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yassine Boukhari | 2025 | Sediment transport in small Alpine and tropical catchments using satellite imagery, LiDAR, observatory records, and machine learning. | 80%; with S. Jacquemoud |
| Coline Hopquin | 2025 | Slow hillslope dynamics at Grand Éboulis on Réunion Island. | 30%; with E. Gayer and L. Michon |
| Dung Tri Nguyen | 2024 | Bayesian inversion of bidirectional reflectance data for bare-surface roughness retrieval. | 50%; with S. Jacquemoud |
| Alice Jacob | 2022 | Seismotectonics and planetary photogrammetry for NASA's InSight mission. | 25%; with P. Lognonné and C. Perrin |
| Amande Roque-Bernard | 2022 | Suspended-sediment transport in Guadeloupe from field observations and remote sensing. | 60%; with E. Lajeunesse |
| Chloé Daudon | 2020 | Titan fluvial geomorphology and topographic reconstruction of the Huygens landing site. | 30%; with S. Rodriguez and S. Jacquemoud |
Former team members
Léa Bonnefoy
Dielectric properties and surface characterization of the Dragonfly landing region on Titan.
Shen Liang
PARKKER project and development of the FARMYARD machine-learning framework.
Matthieu Gougeon
Image-analysis and quality-control tools for airborne, drone, and satellite remote-sensing data.
Student project archive
View MSc, BSc, and engineering projects since 2017
| Name | Programme | Research project |
|---|---|---|
| Grégoire Vest | Final-year engineering student EPITA |
Physics-informed neural networks for SAR surface-property inversion and avalanche detection. |
| Marceau Cottrez | Final-year engineering student EPITA |
Machine learning applied to 3D LiDAR point clouds for vegetation structure and biomass estimation. |
| Valentine Hoscoet | 1st-year MSc, Natural Hazards IPGP |
Scattering-network classification of seismic signals from debris, rock, and snow avalanches. |
| Thibault Chardon | 1st-year MSc, Natural Hazards IPGP |
Machine-learning detection of snow avalanches in medium-resolution SAR imagery. |
| Lisa Corzani | 1st-year MSc, Planetary Sciences PSL |
Mapping rockfalls near the Farside Seismic Suite landing site on the Moon. |
| Marta Ducamp | 2nd-year engineering student, Geomatics and Photogrammetry ENSG-IGN |
Multiscale lunar-surface roughness from Apollo imagery. |
| Mathilde Ballot | 3rd-year undergraduate, Geophysics Sciences Po–IPGP |
Modeling snow-avalanche backscattering in Sentinel-1 SAR data. |
| Matthieu Lecocq | 1st-year MSc, Geophysics IPGP |
Detection of dust avalanches on Mars using orbital imagery. |
| Mathilde Griffaton | 3rd-year BSc Université Paris-Saclay |
Development and testing of prototype turbidity sensors for field applications. |
| Lounis Ait Oufella | 1st-year MSc Sorbonne Université |
Energy dissipation in landslides across the Solar System. |
| Yassine Boukhari | 2nd-year MSc Sorbonne Université |
Snow-avalanche backscattering in Sentinel-1 SAR data. |
| Manon Le Teuff | 1st-year BSc PSL |
Post-seismic decay of dust-avalanche activity on Mars. |
| Justine Vilette | 2nd-year MSc Sorbonne Université |
Physics-based machine learning for topographic retrieval from radar backscattering. |
| Adama Bah | 1st-year MSc IPGP |
Convolutional-neural-network detection of dust avalanches on Mars. |
| Alexandra Le Contellec | Undergraduate internship Four-month project |
Photogrammetric analysis of imagery of the Jovian satellites. |
| Lucas Bourdon | 1st-year MSc Université de Paris and IPGP |
Detectability of slope-instability seismic signals in InSight data. |
| Julie Losen | 2nd-year MSc Université de Paris and IPGP |
Earth–Mars comparison of landslides and molard formation under permafrost degradation. |
| Ayah Taihi | 1st-year MSc, Physics | Light scattering in water–mineral particulate mixtures. |
| Sahand Sharifi | 2nd-year MSc Université de Paris and IPGP |
Microwave backscattering of avalanches and estimation of surface roughness. |
| Tuyen Nguyen | 2nd-year MSc Université de Paris and IPGP |
Evolution of fluvial sediment transport from radar interferometry. |
| Thomas Frasson | 1st-year MSc ENS Lyon |
Parameterization of friction laws in numerical models of gravitational processes. |
| Bastien Gonzalez | 1st-year MSc Sorbonne Université |
Twentieth-century evolution of the Bossons Glacier from aerial photogrammetry. |
| Valérie Genoud-Prachet | 2nd-year MSc Université Paris-Diderot |
Satellite monitoring of surface-state evolution in high-erosion tropical regions on Réunion Island. |
| Alice Jacob | 2nd-year MSc Université Paris-Diderot |
Seismotectonics and planetary photogrammetry in preparation for InSight. |
| Ivan Osorio | 1st-year MSc Sorbonne Université |
Numerical modeling of Titan's landscape dynamics. |
| Amande Roque-Bernard | 2nd-year MSc Université Paris-Diderot |
Microwave-domain photogrammetry using Cassini RADAR data. |