Below you will find the list of thesis topics proposed for 2023 in STEP’UP.
If you are interested in one of the topics, you should get in touch with the person proposing it and consult the application procedure.
- List of thesis topics in Earth and Environment
Sujet n. Labo (équipe) Directeur (co-encadrant) Titre Financement T01 IPGP - Biogéochimie à l’Anthropocène des éléments et contaminants émergents Marc Benedetti, Charlotte Catrouillet, & Carole Cossu-Leguille Speciation, bioaccumulation and biological feedback: towards a new predictive model for the toxicity of metals and their cocktails Contrat doctoral ANSES T02 IPGP - Dynamique des fluides géologiques Julien Aubert Geomagnetic polarity reversals and Earth's thermal history Contrat CDSN T03 IPGP - Planétologie et Sciences Spatiales Sébastien Rodriguez Super-resolution mapping for Jupiter and Saturn icy moons: applications to future observations of JUICE and Dragonfly missions Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T04 IPGP - Sismologie Anne Mangeney & Bertrand Maury Interaction ondes-écoulements granulaires : simulation par éléments discrets Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP ou CDSN T05 IPGP - Biogéochimie à l’Anthropocène des éléments et contaminants émergents Marc Benedetti Nanoparticle and Metal Ion Interactions with Pyrogenic Organic Matter in Wildfire-Affected Environments Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T06 IPGP - Géodésie Laurent Métivier, Zuheir Altamimi, & Maylis De la Serve ITRF, plate tectonic and climate change: what insights from geodesy station horizontal motions? Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP+ contrat IGN T07 IPGP - Sismologie Anne Mangeney & Alban Leroyer Quantification de la perte de masse liée au vêlage d’icebergs en région polaire par une approche couplée modélisation numérique et sismologie Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T08 IPGP - Biogéochimie à l’Anthropocène des éléments et contaminants émergents Eric Van Hullebusch & Dominique Guyonnet Development of a numerical toolbox dedicated to the characterisation and remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated by per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS) Contrat doctoral BRGM T09 IPGP - Cosmochimie, Astrophysique et Géophysique expérimentale Razvan Caracas How redox reactions shaped the early Earth’s secondary atmosphere Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T10 IPGP - Systèmes Volcaniques Fidel Costa & Marina Rosas Carbajal Numerical Modelling and Petrological Analyses of Phreatic Eruptions of Copahue Volcano (Argentina / Chile) Contrat doctoral ANR T11 IPGP - Systèmes Volcaniques Fidel Costa, Jean-Christophe Komorowski & Carole Berthod Understanding real-time monitoring data in terms of pre-eruptive magmatic processes
to better constrain eruption forecastsContrat doctoral ANR T12 IPGP - Planétologie et Sciences Spatiales Stéphane Jacquemoud & Sylvain Douté Hyperspectral remote sensing of the arid environments on Earth and Mars Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T13 IPGP - Planétologie et Sciences Spatiales Philippe Lognonné Deep Lunar interior seismic inversion with the FarSide Seismic Suite, Chang’E 7 and Apollo seismic data. Contrat doctoral Académie Spatiale IDF & CNES T14 IPGP - Planétologie et Sciences Spatiales Antoine Lucas Understanding Seismic Signals of Dense Granular Avalanches: Unveiling Dynamics and Patterns Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T15 IPGP - Tectonique et mécanique de la lithosphère Marc Jolivet & Rémi Marsac Concentration mechanisms of metallic elements in hyper-alkaline groundwater of the Okavango Delta: role and origin of dissolved organic matter. Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T16 IPGP - Sismologie Nobuaki Fuji & Cécile Prigent Inversion of seismic waveforms for petrological structure models and their validation via geodynamic-seismic simulation Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP/Eiffel/CSC T17 IPGP - Systèmes Volcaniques Anne Le Friant, Anne Mangeney & Jean-Christophe Komorowski Potential tsunamis generated in an active seismic-volcanic zone: the example of Mayotte, from geology to numerical simulation Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T18 IPGP - Géodésie Xavier Collilieux & Coulot David Integration of Genesis data/products in ITRF computation Contrat doctoral IGN T19 IPGP - Géodésie Paul Rebischung & Alvaro Santamaria-Gomez Mitigating the impact of solar radiation pressure mismodeling in GNSS station position time series Contrat doctoral IGN T20 IPGP - Systèmes Volcaniques Aline Peltier & Bhavani Benard Volcanic Gas Emissions in Petite Terre (Mayotte) Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T21 IPGP - Géosciences marines Satish Singh Nature of Moho and lithosphere asthenosphere boundary beneath ocean spreading Contrat doctoral ERC T22 IPGP - Géosciences marines Satish Singh & Pavan Devangan (NIO, Goa, India) Anatomy of sedimented Andaman Transform Fault and Ridge-Transform Intersection Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP+ Contrat doctoral NIO (Goa, India) T23 IPGP - Tectonique et mécanique de la lithosphère Laurie Barrier Fluvio-aeolian dynamics of desert landscapes under Cenozoic climate changes Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T24 IPGP - Sismologie Lise Retailleau & Léonard Seydoux Rebuilding past seismic catalog with machine learning: how far can we go? Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T25 IPGP - Tectonique et mécanique de la lithosphère Yann Klinger & Luc Scholtes Discrete element modeling of earthquake cycle in an oblique context: From instantaneous to cumulated deformation Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T26 IPGP - Dynamique des fluides géologiques Angela Limare & Alessandro Morbidelli Accretion and differentiation of icy bodies Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T27 IPGP - Cosmochimie, Astrophysique et Géophysique expérimentale Razvan Caracas Topology of silicate liquids Contrat doctoral Institut de recherche en intelligence artificielle PR[AI]RIE-PSAI T28 IPGP - Dynamique des fluides géologiques Guillaume Carazzo The dynamics of partial column collapse during explosive volcanic eruptions Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T29 IPGP - Géochimie des enveloppes externes Julien Bouchez Variability in stream chemistry from seasonal- to event time scales: water-rock interactions, nutrient cycling, and water transport Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T30 IPGP - Géochimie des isotopes stables Pierre Cartigny & Estelle Rose-Koga Origines et compositions isotopiques du soufre des magmas d’arc et leur relation avec leur degré rédox Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T31 IPGP - Géochimie des isotopes stables Pierre Cartigny Origine, concentration et composition isotopique de l’hydrogène dans les diamants : nouvel éclairage sur le cycle interne de l’eau terrestre Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T32 IPGP - Sismologie Claudio Satriano & Mariano Supino Global determination of reliable earthquake source parameters via probabilistic spectral ratios and artificial intelligence Contrat INGV & Contrat IPGP ou Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T33 IPGP - Systèmes Volcaniques François Beauducel & Jean-Philippe Metaxian Towards understanding magma processes at Mt Merapi Volcano. Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T34 IPGP - Lithosphère Organosphère Microbiosphère (LOMs) Bénédicte Ménez & Razvan Caracas Genesis and evolution of organic compounds in Precambrian rocks of Kidd Creek: multimodal analyses and numerical simulations Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T35 IPGP - Paléomagnétisme Frédéric Fluteau & Yannick Donnadieu ROADS fROm Asia to Africa, decoding Deep-time primate journeyS Contrat doctoral CEREGE et contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T36 IPGP - Dynamique des fluides géologiques Maylis Landeau Mixing, stratification & chemical heterogeneities following giant impacts Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T37 IPGP - Cosmochimie, Astrophysique et Géophysique expérimentale Guillaume Avice & Julien Siebert Coupled noble gas and nitrogen evolution of the Earth's atmosphere Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T38 IPGP - Planétologie et Sciences Spatiales Taichi Kawamura & Etienne Parizot Probing Lunar Ice Using Seismic and Remote Sensing Observations in the Polar Regions Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T39 IPGP - Sismologie Jean-Philippe Metaxian, Loïc Viens & Léonard Seydoux Uncovering seismic signals in submarine DAS data with interpretable machine learning Contrat doctoral LANL & ASN (USA) T40 IPGP - Paléomagnétisme Julie Carlut High-resolution magnetic and detrital records in rapidly accumulating marine sediments: a window into the past 200 ka Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T41 IPGP - Tectonique et mécanique de la lithosphère Jean-Bernard De Chabalier Modélisation mécanique des déformations de la Soufrière de Guadeloupe Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T42 IPGP - Paléomagnétisme Yann Sivry & Aude Isambert Identification of Sources of Anthropogenic Metallic Nanoparticles in Urban Areas: Geochemical and Magnetic Approaches Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T43 IPGP - Sismologie Jean-Philippe Metaxian, Giorgo Lacanna & Léonard Seydoux Analysis of major and paroxysmal explosive phases of the Stromboli volcano using a multi-sensor geophysical network on land and on the seabed Contrat doctoral Université de Florence T44 IPGP - Géochimie des isotopes stables Jabrane Labidi & Magali Ader Origine, dégazage et enregistrement géologique de l'azote terrestre : approche expérimentale et modélisation Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T45 IPGP - Cosmochimie, Astrophysique et Géophysique expérimentale Frédéric Moynier, Julien Siebert & Jabrane Labidi Volatile Element Behavior and Isotopic Fractionation in Early Planetary Differentiation: Insights from Iron Meteorites Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T46 IPGP - Géosciences marines Nathalie Feuillet Aléas sismiques dans les Antilles à partir de l’enregistrement sédimentaire des HmTu (Turbidites-Homogénites) Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T47 IPGP - Cosmochimie, Astrophysique et Géophysique expérimentale Marc Chaussidon & Mickael Tharaud Detection and classification of nanoparticles in spICP-ToF-MS time series using Machine/Deep learning algorithms Contrat doctoral UPC/IPGP T48 IPGP - Sismologie Anne Mangeney & Julien De Rosny Ondes sismiques et hydro-acoustiques émises par les glissements sous- marins à l’échelle du laboratoire pour la détection et l’évaluation des aléas associés Contrat doctoral MiTI
- List of thesis topics in Physics of the Universe 2024