Group

Current PhDs

• Samuel John Gardiner-banks (Octobre 2025-onwards)
  • Impact of CO2 mineralization on the poromechanical properties of basalt.
• Guadalupe Flores (Octobre 2024-onwards)
  • Seismic attenuation caused by squirt flow in fluid-saturated rocks.
  • PhD between UNIL (advisor Beatriz Quintal ) and ENS
• Maxime Guillou (Octobre 2024-onwards)
  • The becoming of carbonate aquifers under shallow burial conditions : influence of the early diagenesis on the evolution of physical and mechanical properties, spatialization and modeling of geological processes
  • PhD between CYU (Bertrand Maillot and Jean Baptiste Regnet) and ENS
• Emile Gros (Octobre 2023-onwards)
  • Recherche multidisciplinaire pour la caractérisation du fonctionnement hydrogéologique des aquifères volcaniques de la Martinique : édifice volcanique du Morne Jacob.
  • Collaboration with Sophie Violette (ENS) and Benoit Vittecoq (BRGM)
• Julien Doucot (Octobre 2022-onwards)
  • La diagenèse précoce des sédiments carbonatés au laboratoire : approche expérimentale des processus géologiques et leur rôle sur les propriétés réservoirs.
  • PhD between CYU (Jean Baptiste Regnet and Philippe Robion) and ENS

Former PhD Students

• Gang Lin (defended the 15 of September 2025)
  • Competition between brittle creep and fluid diffusion during time-delayed hydraulic fracturing.
  • Now Post-doc at ENS
• Théo Briolet (defended the 24 of March 2025)
  • Integrated experimental study of the impact of the alteration on the hydromechanical properties of rocks.
  • Now Post-doc at ENS
• Augustin Thomas (defended the 08 of March 2024)
  • Contributions of tidal analysis in the understanding of earthquakes impacts on volcanic aquifers : field study in Martinique.
  • Now Researcher at BRGM
• Ariel Gallagher (defended the 20 of June 2022)
  • Characterization of the elastic properties of rocks at different scales : link between seismic, sonic and ultrasonic wave velocities
  • Now baker in Montreal
• Sun Chao (defended the 14 december 2020)
  • Effect of mechanical compaction and biphasic saturation on the frequency dependence of elastic wave velocities in porous rock.
  • Now Assistant Professor at CUMT
• Hanjun Yin (defended the 6 June 2020)
  • Experimental and theoretical studies of elastic properties of sandstones at different frequency bands
  • Now Assistant Professor at Hebei GEO University
• Cedric Bailly (defended the 19 december 2019)
  • Multi-scale geological and geophysical characterization of lacustrine carbonates of Samos Island (Upper Miocene, Greece) – Relationship between facies, diagenesis and elastic properties
  • Now Assistant Professor at University Paris Saclay
• Li Zhi (defended the 22 of March 2019)
  • Physical properties of a thermally cracked andesite and fluid-injection induced rupture at laboratory scale.
  • Now at the China University of Geosciences
• Jan Borgomano (defended the 24 of January 2018)
  • Dispersion of the elastic moduli of saturated carbonate rocks : experimental study and modelisation.
  • Now Researcher at Total R&D
• Lucas Pimienta (defended in 2015)
  • Fluid and frequency effects on the elastic properties of sandstones and limestones.
  • Now Researcher at UNIL
• Aurélien Nicolas (defended in 2015)
  • Mechanical behavior of low-porous carbonates : experimental study and micromechanical modeling.
  • Now Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore - Structure research team
• Céline Mallet (defended in 2014)
  • Etude de la fissuration des verres de stockage : comportement en condition de stockage géologique.
  • Now Assitant Professor at ISTO Orlean University
• Audrey Ougier-Simonin (defended in 2011)
  • Mechanical and transport properties of cracked glasses.
  • Now Researcher at the British Geological Survey
• Mathilde Adelinet (defended in 2010)
  • From field to laboratory, study of the elastic properties of basalt.
  • Now Assitant Professor at IFP School