•  Long CV in French (January 2024) 

• Short CV in English (March  2025)

Address :

Sébastien CHARNOZ

Bureau 271

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

1, rue Jussieu

75005 Paris

France 

e-mail :

 charnoz   @  ipgp.fr

Affiliation (for the public and journalists):

In french : Professeur à l'Université Paris cité et à l'Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

In english : Professor at University Paris Cité and the Institut for the Physics of the Globe

Affiliation (for scientific publications):

Université Paris Cité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, 1 rue Jussieu Paris, F-75005, France

Orcid Id (for publications):

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7442-491X

1. Full publication list

In July 2025 I have about 160 papers in international journals .

If you like data, I have about H=50 and 8091 citations by July 2025

Source : Google Scholar

Find here the detailed list of my publications 

PHD Students :

Augustin Maller (2021-2024), co-direction with Maylis Landeau (IPGP)

Leando Esteves (2022) , co-direction with Othon Winter (Sao Paulo State University , Br)

Gustavo Madeira (2019-2022), co-direction with Othon Winter (Sao Paulo State University , Br)

Laetita Allibert (2018-2021), co-direction with Julien Siebert (IPGP)

Ryuki Hyodo (2016-2019)  , co-direction with University of Osaka (Japan)

Esther Tailliffet (2013-2016), co-direction with Jérôme Aléon (MNHN)

Julien Salmon (2011-2013)

Etelle Déau (2006-2009)

Postdocs mentoring :

Patrick Franco (2024)

Gustavo Madeira (2023-2024)

Yueh-Ning Lee (2021-2022)

Francesco Pignatale (2018-2019)

Kevin Baillie (2015-206)

and others...

Master Degree Internships :

Nathan Maindon (2024) M2 "magma oceans exoplanets"

Elodie Dufaux (2024) M2"origin og Titan in Saturn's rings"

Lina KEBAILLIE (2022)  M1 « tidal deformation of Dymorphos”, 

Guillaume GRU (2021)  M1 « Devolatilization of the Moon »

Thomas HOUE (2019) M2, "hydrocode for Saturn's rings"

Laetita ALLIBERT (2017)  M2 "Earth erosion by impact and crust evolution" 

and others...

Undegraduates Internships (License):

2023 : Paulin Bruno (L3, UPC): Atmosphere of hydrogen rich magma ocean exoplanets

2022 : Remi Battiglione  (L1)  PSL : Analyse des courbes de Lumière CHEOPS

2022 : Paulin Bruno (L2, UPC) : magma ocean exoplanets: atmosphere calculation

2019 : Samuel BERA (L3, ENS Lyon) : Recherche d’Exolunes

2016 : Amande Roques Bernard (L3 UPC) : Detection d’Exolunes avec Phobos

2015 : Etienne JAUPART  (2ème Année, ENS LYON) : Atmosphère primitive des embryons terrestres

2015 : Amande Roques Bernard  (L2 Univ Paris Diderot) : Effets de marée sur les exo-lunes

2015 : Lisa Bugnet  (L3, Univ Paris Diderot))

And many ... others

Find here many PDF files of my publications

Some publications I am especially proud of :

Moons and rings of the Solar System 

• Formation of giant's planets satellites from rings :

Charnoz et al., 2010, Nature 

Charnoz et al., 2011, Icarus

Crida &  Charnoz , 2012 Science (supplementary material)

• I am the discoverer ot two saturnian moons (with the Cassini Imaging Team):

Methone and Pallene , see original IAU circular (s/2004/S1 and S2)

• Age of Saturn's rings

Crida, Charnoz et al., 2019, Nature

• Formation of Phobos and Deimos in a giant impact:

   Rosenblatt, Charnoz et al., 2016 Nature Geoscience

• Devolatilisation of the Earth'Moons after a giant impacts, due to Earth's tides

Charnoz et al., 2021, Icarus

Protoplanetary Disks 

• Formation of a protoplanetary disk  in the collapse of a molecular cloud. MHD simulations

Lee et al., 2021

• Condensation of the first solar system solids in a young disk fed by the molecular cloud

Pignatale, Charnoz et al., 2019, ApJ

Exoplanets 

• Evaporation of magma oceans with an hydrogen rich atmosphere

Charnoz et al, 2024 A&A 

•  Discovery of an exo-system with 6 mini neptunes with CHEOPS ! 

Delrez et al., 2023 A&A

• Why we do not detect exomoons ? answer here : 

Dobos, Charnoz et al., 2021 PASP

etc..

I teach about 4-5 lectures per year. My current teaching includes (as of 2024):

• Exoplanets (master degree)

• Numerical methods for physicist (master degree)

• Introduction to Astrophysics (undergrad)

• Introduction to numerical methods 1,2 (undergrad)

Previous years :  classical mechanics, thermodynamics, physics for non physicistes, mechanics practical work, mathematics for physicists, electromagnetism... etc... etc.....

Here are some online lectures

• "La Terre, notre planète" a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) , in 6 weeks

•   "L'histoire du concept de gravitation" (I wrote this page during my PHD... )

Ongoing funded projects

• CNRS International Collaborative partnership (2024-2025): IPGP-Université of Arizona to work on the physics of giant impacsr.

• ANR:  DISKBUILD 2019-2026  (PI : Sébastien Charnoz) : Assembling of protoplanetary disk and condensation and transport of the first Solar System solids . Funded by french ministry of research

• ANR:  ROCHE 2024-2028 (PI : Nicolas Rambaux) : environement, shape and formation of small bodies of the Solar System. Funded by french ministry of research

• Cutting Edge International Project  : EXO-INTERIORS 2024-2027  (PI : Sébastien Charnoz) :  magma oceans in sub-neptune. Atmosphere composition and impact of magma ocean on atmosphere composition. Funded by Université Paris Cité.

Current Space Missions

• MMX mission   (Mars Moons eXploration mission, JAXA) : Mission to phobos. I am Co-I of the MIRS instrument. I am  Funded by CNES . Launch in 2026

• HERA mission   (Mission to Didymos an Dimorphos, ESA ) : Mission to Didymos and Dimorphos. Launch in October 2024

• VIDEO : Formation of Saturn's moons from the rings, 3D rendering , french audio 

• VIDEO : Conference on the origin of saturnian moons (in french), 2022

• PODCAST : Formation of the Earth's Moon in a giant impact (in french), 2022

•  ANIMATION :  Formation of Saturn's moons from massive rings ((c) ANIMEA) 

• WEBSITE : Original Cassini Imaging Team website with thousands of wonderful Cassini images !

• INTERVIEW for Le Monde, with a nice video "Pourquoi cherchez-vous ?" (Le Monde / UniverScience)

• MY BOOK (2023) :  "Les mondes de Saturnes" (Belin Edition), published with my wonderful co-authors Alice Le Gall, Sandrine Guerlet, Sandrine Vinatier.  For this book we won the prize of "Astronomy Book of the Year 2023" , given by the Ciel & Espace magazine.

old stuff... but still interesting : 

• "Les anneaux de Saturne vus par la mission CASSINI" (I wrote this article in 2005, after the arrival of Cassini at Saturn)

• "Bac to Basics : Saturn" I wrote this article for "La Recherche" a while ago 

Formation of saturnian moons : videos from our ring formation model

• Formation of Saturn's mid sized moons, from my serie of NAture and Science  and Icarus papers 2010, 2011, 2012 : Video

Evaporation from hydrogen rich magma ocean exoplanets

• talk given at Magma oceans workshop, in spring 2024 and Rocky Worlds dicussion : talk  PDF

Evaporation from the proto-Moon due to Earth tides

• talk given in Giant Impact meeting in Rochester in March 2024, and in USTC in June 2024 :talk in  PDF

Formation of Phobos and Deimos in a giant impact 

• our model woth Pascal Rosenblatt (Rosenblatt et al., NatGeoscience 2016) : talk in PDF

2025

• Rapporteur Thèse de Paul Segretain (Université Nice Sofia Antipolis)

• CS de l'Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur

2024

• Président du jury,  thèse Arhur Walbeck (USPC/IPGP) "Caractérisation de l’efficacité du dégazage des océans de magma." (Advisors : H. Samue, A. Limare)

• Field Trip in the French Alps, with students of USTC (China) to study the French Alps geology and structural system.

• Rapporteur thèse Sarah JOIRET (LAB Bordeaux) "Constraining the origin of Earth’s volatiles with dynamical simulations and isotopic measurements of noble gases in meteorites" (Advisors : S. Raymond, G. Avice)

• Rapporteur HDR de Quentin Kral (LESIA/Observatoire de Paris)

• Président du jury ,  thèse Alexandre Gilet (DAP/CEA) "Interactions multi-physiques entre les atmosphères des exoplanètes et leurs étoiles" (Advisors : A. Garcia Munoz, A. Strugarek)

• Président du jury , thèse de NGO Duy-Tung (DAP/CEA) "Modélisation synthétique pour évaluer les observables communes pendant la formation des étoiles et des planètes" (Advisors : P.Hennebelle, L. Testi)

• Nommé membre extérieur du CS de l'Observatoire de Nice Côte d'Azur