Justine Bernadet

PROFILE

Ph.D researcher at CNRS specializing in the geodynamic evolution of Earth's earliest continental crust and working on the ERC ADG PLANETAFELSIC project. My research focuses on numerical geodynamic and thermodynamic modeling of Hadean felsic crust formation and its subsequent evolution. Experienced in computational geoscience, mantle dynamics, crustal processes, and large-scale numerical simulations.

Develop and apply numerical geodynamic models to investigate the formation and evolution of Earth's earliest felsic crust during the Hadean. First author to a Science Advances article. Analyze and interpret simulation results using thermodynamic modeling and computational methods to study crust-mantle interactions and early Earth processes.

WORK EXPERIENCE

CNRS 2025 - PRESENT Ph.D student

California Institute of Technology, USA, July 2023, Internship on Thermodynamics modeling of primitive Earth processes using EasyMELTS and alphaMELTS programs. Directed by Dr. HDR Anastassia Borisova and Prof. Paul Asimow

Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France, January 2024 - June 2024, Internship on Thermodynamics and experimental modeling of Hadean Earth. Directed by Dr. HDR Anastassia Borisova. Participation to a forum Le réseau de technologie des hautes pressions hosted by CNRS (https://www.reseau-capteurs.cnrs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/03-Goujon_Presentation-du-RHP_JT-RTCE-RHP-2.pdf ).

Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France, April 2024 - June 2024 Internship on Thermodynamics and experimental modeling of Hadean Earth using EasyMELTS.

EDUCATION

Ph.D Student of ERC ADG PLANETAFELSIC, 2025 - PRESENT, Université de Toulouse/CNRS

Master’s degree in Earth, Planetary and Environmental Sciences, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, 2022 - 2024 

CONTACT

+33 7 87 13 52 55; justine.bernadet@cnrs.fr; 14 Avenue Edouard Belin, Toulouse

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MATLAB, Python, 

I2VIS geodynamics framework 

Numerical geodynamic and thermodynamic modeling

Data analysis and scientific visualization

Linux

RESEARCH FOCUS

Hadean crust formation

Mantle-crust interactions

Early-Earth geodynamics and thermodynamics

Computational geoscience

LANGUAGES

French (Fluent)

English C1 level (Cambridge certification)

PUBLICATIONS

Bernadet, J., Borisova, A. Y., Guitreau, M., Safonov, O. G., Asimow, P., Nédélec, A., ... & de Parseval, P. (2025). Making continental crust on water-bearing terrestrial planets. Science Advances, 11(13), eads6746, https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.ads6746 

Borisova, A., Bernadet, J., Henry, H., Bernadou, F., & Walther, P. (2026). Primitive (> 4 Ga) continental crust production in the planetary evolution: What we know from rocks, zircons, experiments and modeling. Geoscience Frontiers, 102282, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987126000368 

Borisova A. Y., Fred Bejina, Micha Bystricky, Pascal Munsch., & Justine Bernadet (2024, June). Adaptation de l’assemblage piston cylindre pour des pressions inférieures à 1 GPa. In Forum Hautes Pressions https://hal.science/hal-04753938/