Damien Jougnot, Ph.D.

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.