Apart from the PI, our ab initio group comprises postdoctoral researchers, PhD and master students, visitros and various other internal and external collaborators . We are actively hosting Marie-Curie incoming fellows, China Scholarship Council, and various other visitro fellowss. If you are interested, do not hesitate to contact us!
Current members:
Researchers/postdocs:
* Tianhua Wang (2024-2026), trace element partitioning during magma ocean crysallization (ERC Septim)
* Xi Zhu (2024-2026), realistic planetary ices under extreme conditions (ANR Exotic Ices)
* Mattia La Fortezza (2025-2027), defects in diamond (ERC Inherit, Univ. Padova)
PhD students:
* Adrien Saurety, Behavior of chondrites under shock and giant impacts, 2022-2025
* Ana Anzulovic, Modelling impact of melts on mantle diffusion and viscosity with geodynamic implications, started 2022-2025
* Mathilde Andronaco, Dissolution of atmospheres in magma oceans, 2023-2026
* Emma Stoutenburg, Liquid iron hydrides at planetary core conditions (incoming Univ. Chicago fellow), 2022-2026
* Fumiya Satai, Exsolutions from the iron lilquid core (incoming Univ. Tokyo fellow), 2024-2206
* Dong Wang, Sulfur evaporation from the magma ocean (incoming CSC fellow, University of Science and Technology of China), 2024-2026
* Zishian Shi, Impact simulations o fthe proto-Earth-Theia system (incoming CSC fellow, China University of Geosciences Wuhan), 2024 – 2026
* Ziyue Gao, Minor and trace elements in pyrite deposits (incoming CSC fellow, China University of Geosciences Beijing), 2025 – 2027
* Tong Zhou, Data correlations in iron meteorites (incoming CSC fellow, China University of Geosciences Beijing), 2025 – 2027
Former:
Researchers:
* Sarah Figowy (2022-2024), noble gases in deep Earth reservoirs, HIDDEN NFR funding
* Tim Bögels (2023-2024), condensation of the protolunar disk, VADIS UnivEarthS Labex funding
* Anne H. Davis (2022-2025), noble gases in deep Earth reservoirs, HIDDEN NFR funding
* Ozge Ozgurel (2021-2023), CEED internal funding
* Natalia Solomatova (2017-2021), ERC Impact post-doc
* Mandy Bethkenhagen (2020), ERC Impact postdoc, (2020-2022) Marie-Curie fellow
* Francois Soubiran, Marie-Curie fellow (2017-2019), Transport properties in Super-Earths
* Ema Bobocioiu, vibrational spectra, WURM project (2008-2017), ERC Impact (2017-2020)
PhD students:
* Xi Zhu, Behavior of volatiles during vaporization (incoming CSC fellow), 2023-2024
* Tim Bögels, Supercritical state in Mg- and Fe-based oxides and silicates, ERC Impact, graduated in 2023
* Renata Brandelli, Supercritical state in volatile-bearing silica, ERC Impact, graduated in 2022
* Zhi Li, Supercritical state in the iron-based alloys, (ERC Impact), graduated in January 2021
* Anais Kobsch, Supercritical state in the silicate systems, (ERC Impact), graduated in July 2020
* Jean-Alexis Hernandez, First-principles modeling of the superionic phases and of the rheology of dense water ices under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature”, graduated July 2017
* Alexandra Catalina Seclaman, Chemical and physical behavior of trace elements in the silicate melts of the Earth’s mantle, graduated April 2016
* Alexandre Martin, Calculations of the linear response under strain and electric field in the Projector Augmented Wave formalism. Application to the computation of the sound wave velocities for relevant materials in geophysics, graduated fall 2015 (co-supervised with Marc Torrent, CEA)
* Baptiste Journaux, Mineralogical study of planetary ices under pressure, graduated in 2013 (co-supervised with Isabelle Daniel)
* Lucile Bezacier, Elastic properties of hydrated minerals: Application to the seismic anisotropy in the subduction zones, graduated in 2011 (co-supervised with Bruno Reynard)
Other collaborators:
* Lena Martin, museologist in charge of the exhibition “MoonImpact – a geological story”, ERC Impact (2019-2022)
* Kevin Jiguet-Covex, software engineer
Master students:
* Nidarsana Thanapalasingam, Diffusion of noble gases in diamond, 2025
* Maceo Pellegrino, Transport properties and chemical speciation along Hugoniots, 2024
* Marco Brasini, Onset of superionicity in iron-bearing dense water ice, 2022
* Adrien Saurety, Diffusion of noble gases in the magma ocean, Hidden NFR grant, 2022
* Anais Kobsch, Supercritical state of feldspar minerals, 2017
* Nina Bothamy, Raman spectra of Na-based Martian sulfates, 2015
* Eugenia Vasile, Raman spectra in the magnesite – dolomite – calcite series, 2014
* Alina Ilie, Raman spectra diamond and related phases at high temperature, 2014
* Vincent Clesi, Elasticity of Fe3+-bearing perovskite and post-perovskite, 2012
* Christian Cardenas, Mineral interfaces in the lower mantle, 2012
* Alejandra Vargas Calderon, Fe3C under pressure, 2010
* Rosa Davila Martinez, Methanol monohydrate under pressure, 2010
UNDERGRADUATE students:
* Romain Castagnet (2025)
* Kalyani Balanchandran (2025)
* Nidarsana Thanapalasingam (2023)
* Adrien Saurety (2020)
* Helene Plihon, graduated in 2018
* Olivier Hercot, graduated in 2002 (co-supervisor Prof. Jean Naud, Université Catholique de Louvain)
* Colinne Lannoye, graduated in 2003 (co-supervisor Prof. Jean Naud, Université Catholique de Louvain)