I am a French Post-doc within the Geodynamics research group of the Insitut für Geowissenschaften, at the Goethe Universität of Frankfurt. My research interests modelling and understanding physical processes that control the evolution of Earth and planetary surfaces and interior. I am more specifically attached to physical volcanology and melt migration within the lithosphere, using two-phase flow numerical modelling and multi-scale approachs.
I did my Ph.D. in Physical volcanology in France, at the Earth Sciences Institute (ISTerre), in Chambéry. My Ph.D. thesis aimed at improving our understanding of magma degassing evolution in andesitic volcanic conduits, and its influence on the eruptive regime. It included theoretical and numerical developments for two-phase magma flow modelling, a multi-scale approach of magma permeability for better understanding gas loss dynamics in the conduit, and GNSS data interpretation from fluid-structure interaction models to connect conduit processes to near field observations.
During my Post-doc, I keep dealing with two-phase flow, this time with liquid melt in a compacting solid matrix, rather than gas and magma. My research focuses on understanding the evolution of melt transport at the transition from partially molten to sub-solidus regions, where dikes initiate. Particularly, I use two-phase flow models with Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium (LTNE) to see how the development of a thermal disequilibrium between melt and matrix may influence melt segregation and transport.
On this website you can learn a little bit more about this research. My CV, as well as a list of my publications are also available.
Key words : two-phase flow, multi-scale approach, magma flow, magma degassing, melt migration