Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2023 HDR (habilitation to manage research), Geosciences Montpellier, University of Montpellier

since 2017      Researcher, Transfers in Porous Media Group, Geosciences Montpellier (UMR 5243), CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), University of Montpellier, France

2013-2016      Postdoctoral Researcher, Applied and Environmental Geophysics Group, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland                

2011-2012      Postdoctoral Researcher, Mathematical Modeling and Analysis Group, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA  

2009                     PhD mobility, Department of Hydrogeology, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), USA

2008-2010      PhD in Earth Sciences, EAU Group, Geosciences Rennes (UMR 6118), CNRS, University of Rennes, France                               

           Teaching assistant in Earth Sciences (187hrs/year), University of Rennes, France

2007                    MSc in Water and Environment, University of Montpellier, France                      

2006                    MSc in Mathematics and Modeling, National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), Toulouse, France  

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2024 NUM_HYDROGEO (NUMerical tools for HYDROgeology and GEOsciences challenges), Montpellier University, PI, 17.68k€ 

2024-2029 PEPR HydrauMath (Mathématiques pour les hydrosystèmes du littoral à l'aquifère), PEPR Exploratoires, Programme MathVivES, Participant and board member (PI: Frédéric Bouchette), 1 M€

2024-2025 ULTRABASIC (Quantifying fluxes, sources and sinks during serpentinization of the ULTRABASIC mantle lithosphere: A Machine-Learning approach to study H2 production and its impact on Life), Tremplin vers l'ERC, Université de Montpellier, Participant (PI: Marguerite Godard), 96 k€

2024-2028 ANR AlterAction (Alteration in Active Faults Application to geothermal reservoirs), ANR-PRC, Participant (PI: Mai-Linh Doan), 996k€

2023-2024 SWIM-CLAs (Salt Water Intrusion Modeling in Clastic Aquifers), UNESCO ICIREWARD, PI, 28.7k€

2023 Imagerie géophysique (ERT) des fractures de subsurface: approche par éléments discrets (DFN), AAP GM, co-PI (co-PI: Cédric Champollion), 6k€

2022-2023 Stochastic simulations of karstic systems from geological data : application to Durzon aquifer (Larzac, France), OREME, co-PI (PI: Yohann Cousquer), 6k€

2019-2021      PermHeat - Sheared-Induced Permeability Enhancement and its Impact on Heat Transfer in Hot Dry Rock, PRC-CNRS (Joint Research Project), PI, 18k€

2019-2020      FracTherm - Models for characterization of fractured rock from thermography experiments, France-Stanford Center Collaborative Project, co-PI, 16.2k€

2019                     Research grant - Towards quantitative critical zone monitoring with passive geophysical methods - CRITEX-OZCAR funding, co-PI, 10k€

2018-2020      Research project CROSSCALE - Anomalous hydrodynamic reactive transport in heterogeneous media: multi-scale laboratory experiments and modeling approaches, PICS-CNRS (International Programs for Scientific Cooperation), PI, 20k€

2018-2019      Research project STARTREK - Petrophysic system for characterizing reactive transport in karstic domains, EC2CO (CNRS-INSU), Scientific Leader  (PI: Linda Luquot), 34.5k€

                                Research project TREK and TREK2 - Reactive transport in karstic media, IM2E (Institute for Water and Environment in Montpellier), co-PI (PI: Linda Luquot), 7.5k€ 

2018                    Young scientist research project - Pollution and remediation in fractured aquifers and reservoirs, Geosciences Montpellier, PI, 6k€

2013                    Computers & Geosciences Research Scholarship - Elsevier and IAMG (International Association for Mathematical Geosciences), 2.2k€ 

2009                    Mobility grant - Britanny council (6 months, USA), 4k€

2008                    Funding for the creation of a scale model popularizing hydrogeology - CNRS and BRGM (French Geological Survey), 2k€

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

2024     Reviewer for ISF (Israel Science Fundation)

PhD monitoring committee (president), Arwa Rashed, Geosciences Rennes

since 2023   Expert for the INSU program EC2CO-AT HYBIGE, CNRS, France 

Expert for the high-performance computing national equipment GENCI, France

Human ressource committee member, Montpellier University

2023   Reviewer, PhD thesis of Habiba Lharti, Bordeaux University, France     

since 2022   Reviewer for the French National Research Agency 

Co-leader of the Computational Ressources Platform, Geosciences Montpellier 

Co-organizer of the CRITEX-OZCAR workshop - Passive Geophysics

2022                 Co-convener CMWR conference, session "Transport and Reactions Across Scales in Hydrological Systems" 

    PhD thesis committee, Sina Momeni, Sorbonne Université-IFPEN, France   

since 2021    Co-Head of IDIL Master, Earth and Water under Global Change (AWARE-Earth), Montpellier University, France  

2021     PhD thesis committee, Ali Asaad, University of Poitiers, France   

  Committee member, Assistant professor position in Hydrogeology, University of Montpellier, France

      Guest Editor, Engineering Geology, Special Issue: "Discrete fracture networks in geo-hydrology: advancements and practical applications"

2020-2021    PhD monitoring committee, Jingyi Wang, University of Montpellier, France

since 2020      Nominated member of laboratory council, Geosciences Montpellier, France

      Co-leader of the scientific department Hydrosystem, Gesosciences Montpellier, France

2020                   Co-convener for the EGU online session "Characterization and modeling of (coupled) THMC processes for geothermal energy" (ERE2.7)

                               Chair for the CMWR online session "Mixing and reaction - Pore scale" (11.B), Stanford University, June 21-25 2020

2019                   Reviewer, ACS-PRF (American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund), American research grant applications

                               Guest Editor, Geofluids - Special Issue: "Innovative tools to understand, image, monitor, and model physical processes in fractures"

                               Review Editor, Frontiers in Water - Water and Hydrocomplexity

                               Committee member, Assistant professor position in Geosciences, University of Montpellier, France

since 2018      Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology

2018-2020      Researcher representative at Geosciences Montpellier, University of Montpellier, France

2018-2019      Organizer of seminars for the doctoral school GAIA, University of Montpellier, France

2018                     PhD thesis committee (private and public defense), Serdar Demirel, University of Lausanne, Switzerland  

                                 Committee member, PhD candidate eligibility, Doctoral school GAIA, University of Montpellier, France                        

                                Organizing committee, CouFrac Conference, China

PhD monitoring committee, Alexandre Puyguiraud, University of Montpellier, France

2017                    PhD thesis committee, Jérôme de La Bernardie, University of Rennes, France  

                                Reviewer, ANRT (National Association of Research and Technology), French research grant applications

2016                   Committee member, Hydrogeology in MSc Environmental Geosciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

2014                    Committee member, Professorship in Vadose Zone processes, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

since 2011       Reviewer for ~10 international journals in hydrology, geophysics, and environmental sciences, ~6 reviews per year

2008                   Creation of a scale model popularizing hydrogeology which was presented at several schools and science fairs and approved for display by the International Year of Planet Earth committee

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

2018                   ERT_DDP_2D and ERT_DDP_2.5D: Electrical Resistivity Tomography simulations with Discrete-Dual Porosity models in 2D and 2.5D, Registered to CNRS under the software registration number 12420-01 and 12420-02

2013                   Platform for modeling electric current flow and streaming potential in fractured rock

2012                   HYMLAB: HYbrid Models for LABoratory experiments

2011                   PERFORM: ParticlE-tRacking model for Fractured pORous Media, Registered to APP (Agence pour la Protection des Programmes, European body for protecting authors’ and publishers’ digital works), Available at https://github.com/cageo/Roubinet-2012

2008-2010      Contribution to the platform H2OLAB (http://h2olab.inria.fr/)

COURSES TAUGHT

2016-2020  Flow modeling in fractured porous media: fractured rock representation and processus modeling

2008-2010        Characterization and modeling of natural sites in Hydrogeology
                                  Numerical modeling for Earth Sciences and Environment applications
                                  Physics of heterogeneous media at the macro-scale
                                  Cartography
                                  Hydrogeology field studies
                                  Environmental risk assessment

2008                Co-author and coach of online classes, Master’s degree in Hydrogeological Modeling (https://www.envam.org/formations/modelisation-hydrogeologique-des-milieux-souterrains)

STUDENTS SUPERVISED

2024        Nasser Olleik, Bsc student, UFR ST-Besançon, France 

 Celina Medjahed, Msc student, EOST Strasbourg, France 

  Lukas Bernier, Msc student collaboration, Montpellier University, France 

  Pu Li, Bsc student, Montpellier University (IDIL program), France 

2023-       Léa Lelimouzin, PhD candidate, Montpellier University, France

2023       Léa Lelimouzin, MSc internship, Polytech Sorbonne University, France

2022-2023    Pu Li, PhD student collaboration, China University of Petroleum 

2022-2023    Jiayan Ji, PhD student collaboration, China University of Petroleum 

2022       Léa Lelimouzin, BEng internship collaboration, Polytech Sorbonne University, France

2021-2022    Guofeng Song, PhD student collaboration, China University of Petroleum 

2021-2024    Chuanyin Jiang, PhD student collaboration, Hydrosciences Montpellier, France  

2021       Batyste Perrin, MSc internship, University of Montpellier, France

2020                  Donia Djerbi, MSc internship, University of Montpellier, France

2019-2022    Marie Leger, PhD candidate, Montpellier University, France

2019-2020    Chuanyin Jiang, MSc student collaboration, China University of Petroleum 

2019                   Noubough Alhaj Sleiman, MSc internship, University of Montpellier, France

                               Marwa Alali, MSc internship, University of Montpellier, France

                                Ricardo Pérez, MSc internship, University of Montpellier, France 

2018                    Nadine Dirani, MSc internship, University of Montpellier, France

                                Ajay Srinivasan Narayanan, MEng internship, Ecole Centrale de Nantes*, France

                                 Sapha Laaraj, BEng internship, UniLaSalle Beauvais*, France

2017                    Julie Hartz, BSc internship, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

2013-2017      Serdar Demirel, PhD candidate, University of Lausanne, Switzerland 

                                 Viktoria R. Gisladottir, PhD candidate, University of California San Diego, USA

2014                     Victor Caballero Sanz, MSc internship, University of Madrid, Spain

                                 Luis Guillermo Moscoso Lembcke, MSc internship, University of Madrid, Spain 

2013                      Florian Salaun, MEng internship, ISAE-ENSICA* Toulouse, France

                                  Floriane Gidel, BEng internship, INSA* Toulouse, France

2012                      Àlvaro Ruiz Martinez, MSc internship, University of Madrid, Spain

                                  Cédric Benslimane, BEng internship, ENSEEIHT* Toulouse, France

                                  Matthieu Galouye, BEng internship, ENSEEIHT* Toulouse, France

                                  Maxime Rosello, BEng internship, ENSEEIHT* Toulouse, France

                                  Margaux Jalby, BEng internship, ENSEEIHT* Toulouse, France

                                 Alexandre Constantin, BEng internship, École Polytechnique, France

2011                     Laure Bergey, BEng internship, ENSEEIHT* Toulouse, France

                                Pascal Chane-Poi-Sane, BEng internship, ENSEEIHT* Toulouse, France

                                Enzo Hausseker, BSc internship, University of California San Diego, USA

                                Xuan Zhang, BSc internship, University of California San Diego, USA

2010                    Grégorie Grenier, BSc internship, University of Rennes, France

* French Grandes Écoles (engineering schools)