Damien Jougnot, Ph.D.
CNRS Senior Scientist (DR2)
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, UMR 7619 METIS, F-75005 Paris, France
E-mail: damien.jougnot(at)upmc.fr
Developing hydrogeophysical tools to study the critical zone...
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Review about geophysics for 4D hydrogeology in HESS:
Hermans et al. (2023) Advancing measurements and representations of subsurface heterogeneity and dynamic processes: towards 4D hydrogeology, HESS, doi:10.5194/hess-27-255-2023.
Review about geophysics applied to forest ecosystems in STOTEN:
Loiseau et al. (2023) The geophysical toolbox applied to forest ecosystems – a review, STOTEN, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165503.
Dissemination article for a broad audience (but in French):
Jougnot, D. (2023) Voir l’eau invisible, ou comment imager le remplissage et l’évolution des nappes phréatiques, The Conversation (Cover)
...and you can follow me on twitter @DamienJougnot or the Lab account I am co-managing @UMR_METIS
(Credits: Manuel Méndez)
Born and raised in Dijon, France, I received a Bachelor in Environmental Geo-engineering from the University of Bordeaux in 2004 and a Master of Hydrogeology from the University of Avignon in 2006.
Over the course of my PhD thesis at the University of Savoie, I developed several petrophysical models to determine the transfer properties of a potential host rock for nuclear waste storage. This work was funded by the French Nuclear Waste Agency and supervised by André Revil. During this period, I spent 15 months as a visiting scholar at the Colorado School of Mines. I obtained a PhD degree in Geosciences in 2009. From 2009 to 2014, I was a Junior Lecturer working in the group of Niklas Linde at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Since 2015, I work as CNRS Scientist, later appointed Senior Scientist (DR2) in 2023, at UMR 7619 METIS, Sorbonne University, Paris, France. My research activities mainly focus on how geophysical methods data can be used to better understand, quantify, and predict processes in the critical zone from the laboratory to the field scale. I'm working on petrophysical and rock physics developments, especially taking into account the effect of mesoscale heterogeneities (fracturation and partial saturation) on the signal generation. This was subject of the habilitation thesis (HDR) that I defended in January 2020: Developing hydrogeophysics for critical zone studies, importance of heterogeneities and processes at the mesoscopic scale. I want to push forward a more quantitative use of hydrogeophysics to better understand dynamic and complex processes in the critical zone, such as flow, transport, and (bio-)geochemical reactivity.
