GIMBERT, Florent
Researcher unique identifier (ORCID): 0000-0001-7350-3563
Date of birth: 06/02/1986; Nationality: French; 3 children
URL for web site: https://sites.google.com/site/florentsprofwebsite/home
· EDUCATION
2012 Ph.D. in Geophysics. Defended the 7th of December 2012
Title: Mechanics of Arctic sea ice and granular materials : two mediums, two approaches
Institut des sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Université de Grenoble, France
Ph.D. supervisors: David Amitrano and Jérôme Weiss
2009 Master in Geophysics/Geomechanics
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France
· CURRENT POSITION
2017 – Permanent CNRS researcher
Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement, Université de Grenoble/CNRS, France
· PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2016 Postdoctoral Scholar
German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Supervisor: Niels Hovius
2012 – 2015 Postdoctoral Scholar
Seismological Laboratory, Caltech, USA
Supervisor: Victor Tsai and Michael Lamb
· FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2024 Price of polar and subpolar research from the French Academy of Sciences
2021 Award of Excellence in Research, CNRS, France
2017 Award of Excellence in Research, CNRS, France
· RESEARCH GRANTS
2024-2029
ERC consolidator Grant (European Funding) – 3 Meuros - PI : F. Gimbert
Project: Probing and predicting the dynamical response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to surface melt water (REASSESS)
2022-2027
2019-2022
2018-2022
2017-2019
· GUIDANCE, SUPERVISION
- 8 PhDs (3 defended, 1 submitted, 5 ongoing) : U. Nanni (glacier seismology, 2017-2020, 4 led publications, now postdoc at the University of Oslo, Norway), J.P. Roldan Blasco (glacier physics, 2019-, 2 lead drafts under review, now R&D researcher in industry in Spain), M. Piantini (river seismology, 2019-2023, 2 led publications, now postdoc in University of Padua, Italy), A. Togaibecov (glacier geodesy, 2020-, 1 lead publication), T. Lebris (glacier seismology, 2022-, 1 lead draft under review), Samidha Revankar (river seismology, 2023-), N. Paris (glacier seismic imaging, 2024-), M. Zeller (glacier basal sliding and hydrology, 2024-).
- 3 Postdocs: N. Maier (2019-2022, glacier dynamics, 3 led publications, now researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA), M. Bakker (2018-2021, environmental seismology, 2 led publications, now R&D researcher in industry in Danemark), A. Gilbert (2019-2022, glacier modelling, 2 led publications, now hired as a permanent researcher at CNRS).
- External reviewer in 5 Ph.D. defenses: T. Pétrut (river acoustics, 2017), A. Gonzalez (river seismics, 2019), R. Law (Greenland dynamics, 2022), J. Vérité (Glacial bedforms 2022).
- Member of 4 Ph.D. committees: Agathe Serripierri (sea ice seismology, 2020-2023), Mohamad Nasr (river acoustics, 2020-2023), Aurélien Rigotti (granular and sea ice physics, 2021-2024), Clemence Daigre (glaciers and ground water, 2022-2025).
· TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2020 – Responsible of a research internship teaching module in Master 1 “Earth,
planetary and environmental sciences”, option “Earth Surface” (50 hours/yr)
· ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2023-2024 Co-organizer of the Cargese Summer School on Ambiant Seismic noise, Apr. 2024, Cargese, Corsica, France.
2017-2020 Convener of the EGU session: "Environmental Seismology"
2017 Co-organizer of the EnviroSeis workshop, June 2017, Oldstadt, Germany
· REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
2012- Peer-reviewer (8 papers/year on average)
Science, Nature Communication, GRL, JGR, The Cryosphere, ESurf, ESPL, Journal of Glaciology, Annals of Glaciology
2017 Co-editor in Earth Surface Dynamics (EGU journal)
Special issue Environmental seismology
RESEARCH IN NUMBERS
Total publications: 44 (full list: https://sites.google.com/site/florentsprofwebsite/home/publications?authuser=0), including
· 5 publications in high impact journals (Nature, Science, Nature Geoscience, PNAS) and 33 publications in a large range of lead international journals (Geophys. Res. Lett., J. of Geophys. Res., The Cyrosphere, etc…)
· 34 publications without my Ph.D. supervisors
· 10 publications as a first author and 10 publications as main supervisor driving the research (materialized by my name as second author in my authors list).
Total citations (Google Scholar, Oct. 4 2024): 1907, including 1000 over the past two years.
Invited talks: 12 (AGU, ETH-Zurich, UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, Lamont Doherty, USC California, ENS Paris, ENS Lyon, Univ. Lausanne, IPG-Strasbourg, IPG-Paris, Caltech)
Total funding obtained: 4,5 M euros.