GIRAULT Frédéric

Nationality: French
Date of birth: 8 January 1985

•    Education
 

2022  HDR in Geophysics, Université Paris Cité (UPC), France

2011  Ph.D. in Geophysics, Université Paris Diderot (P7), France
2008  M.Sc. in Geophysics, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France
2006  B.Sc. in Earth, Environment and Planets Sciences, Université Paris Diderot (P7), France

•    Academic appointments

2015 – present  Assistant Professor, Team Physics of Natural Sites, IPGP, Université Paris Cité, Paris
2013 – 2015  Post-Doc, Rock mechanics, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA) and École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS), Paris; Supervisors: Éric Pili and Alexandre Schubnel
2012 – 2013  Post-Doc, Fluid dynamics, EVOSS and SMASH European projects, IPGP Paris; Supervisor: Steve Tait
2011 – 2012  Teaching and research assistant (ATER), IPGP Paris
2008 – 2011  Teaching assistant during the Ph.D., Université Paris Diderot

•    Research interests

- Gas and fluid physics and transport properties
- Hydrothermal systems
- Geophysical sounding
- Geochemistry
- Rock mechanics

•    Fellowships
 
2015 – 2017  AXA Research Fund Junior Post-Doctoral Fellowship (120 k€), awarded but declined
2013 – 2015  CEA-ENS “Yves Rocard” LRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship (130 k€)

•    Supervision and co-supervision of graduate and undergraduate students
 

Post-Doctorates:

2021 – 2022  Bo Lei (1 year, CSC, co-supervision with F. Perrier)

2020 – 2022  Javiera Villalobos-Orchard (2 years, Labex MYSTHIC, co-supervision with B. Debret)

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PhD students:

2024 – actuel  Kangfu Zhu (1 year, CSC, invited PhD student, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)

2023 – present  Iñigo de Loyola Chacartegui Rojo (3 years, CEA-CNES, co-supervision with B. Sabot and P.-Y. Meslin)

2023 – present  Marie-Margot Robert (3 years, MESRI, co-supervision with G. Carazzo)

2023 – 2024  Ziqi Cai (1 year, CSC, invited PhD student, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)

2019 – 2023  Sandeep Thapa (3 years, MESRI) [now Post-Doc at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden]

2019 – 2022  Shashi Tamang (3 years, cotutelle with UniTO, co-supervision with C. Groppo)

2016 – 2019  Audrey Michaud-Dubuy (3 years, co-supervision with E. Kaminski and G. Carazzo) [now Post-Doc at LMV Université Clermont-Auvergne, France]

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Undergraduates:

2023  Marie-Margot Robert (2nd year M.Sc., 6 months, co-supervision with G. Carazzo)

2022  Barbara Baldoni (2nd year M.Sc., 6 months, co-supervision with C. Mugler)

2022  Carine Sadaka (2nd year M.Sc., 6 months, co-supervision with L. Ferrière)
2019  Elsi Guillermin (3rd year B.Sc. Univ. Paris 6, 1 month, co-supervision with F. Perrier)

2019  Chloé Magnan (2nd year M.Sc. Centrale-Supelec, 6 months, co-supervision with C. Mugler);
2018  Shashi Tamang (2nd year M.Sc., 8 months, co-supervision with K.R. Paudyal and F. Perrier)

2018  Sandeep Thapa (2nd year M.Sc., 8 months, co-supervision with K.R. Paudyal and F. Perrier)

2018  Roxane Ferry (3rd year B.Sc., 1 month)
2017  Marie Bouih (3rd year B.Sc., 1 month)

2017  Alix Fournier (1st year M.Sc., 5 months, co-supervision with A. Isambert)
2016  Roxane Ferry (1st year B.Sc., 1.5 months, co-supervision with A. Isambert)

2016  Bastien Joly (1st year M.Sc., 5 months, co-supervision with E. Williard and Y. Richard)

2016  Jérôme Aubr (2nd year M.Sc., 5 months, co-supervision with A. Schubnel)

2016  Etienne Marti (3rd year B.Sc., 1 month, co-supervision with A. Isambert)

 

Undergraduates in companies:

2018 – 2019  Fiona Le Tallec (M.Sc., 2 years, Canon France)

2017 – 2019  Alexis Simonin (M.Sc., 2 years, Routière Est Parisien)

2017 – 2019  Rose Kaysavuk (M.Sc., 2 years, BASF)

2016 – 2018  Alexandra Roques (M.Sc., 2 years, SNCF)

2016 – 2017  Clément Conti (B.Sc., 1 year, Metheor)

2015 – 2017  Audrey Pennacchioni (M.Sc., 2 years, BASF)

2015 – 2017  Bastien Plissonnier (M.Sc., 2 years, SNCF)

2015 – 2016  Paul Breuil (B.Sc., 1 year, SIVOM)

2015 – 2016  Léa Vallet (B.Sc., 1 year, Panhard Defense)

•    Teaching activities

2023 – present  Rock Physics (3rd year B.Sc.; responsible teacher)
2019 – present  Physics of Natural Sites: Concepts and Methods (2nd year M.Sc. and PhD; responsible teacher)

2019 – present  Geophysical Imagery 2: Electric, Electromagnetic and Radar (2nd year M.Sc.; responsible teacher)

2019 – present  Geophysical Imagery 1 (1st year M.Sc.; responsible teacher)

2019 – present  Field transdisciplinary traineeship (1st year M.Sc.; assistant teacher)

2015 – present  Field geophysical instrumentation traineeship (1st year M.Sc.; assistant teacher)

2021 – 2023  Non-linear dynamics in geosystems (2nd year M.Sc. and PhD; assistant teacher)
2018 – 2023  Rock Physics (3rd year B.Sc.; assistant teacher)
2017 – 2023  Tutoring for Work Experience (Secondary Schools Pupils)
2017 – 2019  Geophysical and Geochemical Methods (2nd year B.Sc.; assistant teacher)

2017 – 2019  Waves and Vibrations (2nd year B.Sc.; assistant teacher)
2017 – 2018  Experimental Physics (3rd year B.Sc.; assistant teacher)
2015 – 2019  Tutoring for B.Sc. and M.Sc. students in geophysics and environment companies

2015 – 2019  Hydrology (1st year M.Sc.; assistant teacher)
2014 – 2018  Electric, Electromagnetic and Radar Imagery (1st year M.Sc.; responsible teacher)
2011 – 2012  Overview of Earth Sciences (2nd year B.Sc.)

2011 – 2012  Experimental Physics (3rd year B.Sc.)
2010 – 2012  Natural Hazards and Environment (1st year M.Sc.)
2008 – 2010  Geophysics for the Environment (1st year M.Sc.)
2008 – 2011  Rock Samples Archive set-up dedicated to teachers and students
2008 – 2012  Bibliographical Report (1st year M.Sc.)

2008 – 2012  Tutoring for Work Experience (Secondary School Pupils)

•    Invited presentations

2025  IPGP 2nd Natural Hazard Theme Day, IPGP, Paris, France

2022  Joint Congress Italian Geological Society (SGI) and Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP), Torino, Italy

2019  Department of Earth Sciences, University of Torino, Italy
2019  Geomorphology Group, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
2018  International Workshop on the 3rd Memorial Day of 2015 Gorkha Earthquake, Kathmandu, Nepal
2015  Deep Carbon Observatory, Early Carrier Scientist Workshop, University of the Azores, Portugal
2014  22nd Hubbert Quorum, USGS, Menlo Park, USA
2014  Georadon’14: Workshop on Geoscience Radon applications, University of Lisbon, Portugal
2012  Research and Development Team, AREVA, Paris, France
2011  ISTerre, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble, France

•    Fieldwork experience

2025  Azores (Portugal): 1 trip of 2 weeks; Caldeiras da Ribeira Grande; Nepal: 2 trips of 1 month each in central Nepal; France: 2 trip of 1 week each

2024  Nepal: 1 trip of 1 month in central Nepal; France: 2 trip of 1 week each

2023  Nepal: 1 trip of 1 month in central Nepal; France: 1 trip of 1 week

2022  France: 1 trip of 1 week

2021  Nepal: 2 trip of 1 month each in central Nepal; France: 1 trip of 1 week
2020  Nepal: 1 trip of 1 month in central Nepal; France: 1 trip of 1 week
2016 – 2019  Nepal: 12 trips of 1 month each; western, mid-western and central Nepal
2017  France: 1 trip of 1 week
2016  Azores (Portugal): 1 trip of 1 week; Furnas volcano; France: 2 trips of 1 week each
2015  Nepal: 1 trip of 1 month; far-western (Jumla District) and central Nepal
2012  France, Germany, and Poland: 3 trips of 1 week each
2007 – 2011  Nepal: 8 trips from 1 to 3 months (1.5 year in total); western (Dolpo), mid-western, central, and eastern Nepal

•    International journals appointments

2010 – present  Reviewer (8/year on average): Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Geophysical Research Letters, The Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Environmental Research, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Geofluids, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Energies, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Geological Society of London Special Publications, Royal Society Open Science, Journal of Applied Microbiology, Comptes Rendus Geoscience, Transport in Porous Media, Digital Signal Processing, Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, Radiation Measurements, Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences

•    Membership of scientific societies since

2012  American Geophysical Union
2010  European Geophysical Union
1999  Association of Paleontology of Villers-sur-Mer (APSVM, Normandy, France)

•    Institutional activities

2023 – present Responsible of the French-German Double Master in Geophysics (IPGP–TUBAF)

2022– present  Member of the scientific committee of the French-Chinese project DORN     
2021 – present  Implication in the GDR GEMS (Groupe d’Etudes des Milieux Souterrains)     
2019 – present  Responsible of the IPGP team “Physics of Natural Sites”
2018– present  Responsible of the IPGP–DMG, IPGP–TU, IPGP–NAST and IPGP–NMA collaboration (France-Népal) 2018– 2023  Training Coordinator of the Graduate School STEP’UP ED560 (IPGP and ENS)

2018– 2023  Deputy Director of the IPGP Graduate School Council

2018– 2020  Steering committee member of the national initiative “More water for Sahel”
2017 – present  Implication in the GDR MIST (Group for the Modelling, Imaging, Sensing, and Tracing of emissions and volcanic plumes)

2017 – present  Responsible of Seminars of the PSN Department
2018 – 2019  Responsible of the IPGP theme ‘Natural Hazard’
2017  Thesis jury of M. Gresse (ISTerre Chambéry)

2017  Thesis committee of J. Aubry (ENS Paris)

•    Selected grants

2025  ANR DECACLIM (808k€, co-PI WP2, PI B. Lartiges); Labex UnivEarthS Frontier AURORA (70k€, PI B. Ménez, participant); PEPR Origins RADEX (49k€, PI, co-PI B. Sabot et P.Y. Meslin); CNRS INSU SYSTER (15k€, PI)

2024  ANR DECACLIM (808 k€, co-PI of WP2, PI: B. Lartiges); Labex UnivEarthS Frontier (70k€, PI: B. Ménez, participant); PEPR Origins RADEX (49k€, PI, co-PI B. Sabot and P.Y. Meslin) ; CSIIT RADEX (11k€, PI, co-PI B. Sabot and P.Y. Meslin)

2023  ANR DECACLIM (808 k€, co-PI of WP2, PI: B. Lartiges); Labex UnivEarthS Frontier (70k€, PI: B. Ménez, participant); France-Austria PHC Amadeus - OeAD-GmbH (0.5k€, co-PI L. Ferrière)

2022  Labex UnivEarthS Frontier (73k€, PI, co-PI C. Pisapia and B. Debret); CNRS INSU EC2CO MICROBIOME (14k€, participant); CNRS INSU EC2CO HYBIGE (10k€, participant); France-Austria PHC Amadeus - OeAD-GmbH (2.3k€+2k€, co-PI L. Ferrière)     
2021  Labex UnivEarthS Frontier grant (67k€, PI, co-PI C. Pisapia and B. Debret); CNRS INSU EC2CO MICROBIOME grant (11k€, participant); CNRS INSU EC2CO HYBIGE grant (10k€, participant); French-Austria PHC Amadeus - OeAD-GmbH grant (2.2k€+4.15k€, co-PI L. Ferrière)
2020  CNRS INSU SYSTER grant (8k€, PI); Labex UnivEarthS Frontier grant (70k€, PI, co-PI C. Pisapia and B. Debret)
2019  IPGP grant (10k€, PI)
2018  Collaboration IPGP–CEA (12.5 k€, PI); CNRS INSU TelluS grant (6k€, participant)
2017  IPGP grants (10k€, PI; and 20k€, participant)
2016  RBV grant (2.5k€, PI); CNRS INSU SYSTER grant (6k€, PI); Potamology grant (4k€, participant); CNRS INSU ALEAS grant (9k€, participant)
2015  CNRS INSU SYSTER grant (7k€, participant); ENS Paris grant (30k€, participant)
2009  BQR Inter-Universities grant (20k€, participant)

•    Major collaborations

Hydrothermal Systems in Active Tectonics:
Sudhir Rajaure, Ram Prasad Ghimire, Som Nath Sapkota, Lok Bijaya Adhikari, Bharat Prasad Koirala, Mukunda Bhattarai, Nabin Bika, Ratna Mani Gupta, Kapil Maharjan and Nabin Ghising Tamang (Department of Mines and Geology, DMG); Ananta Prasad Gajurel, Kabi Raj Paudyal and Lalu Paudel (Tribhuvan University); Sudhan Singh Mahat and Sunil Dhungel (Sanjen Jalavidhyut Company Ltd.); Narayan Prasad Malla (SMEC); Surendra Pant (Geophysical Research & Consultancy Service); Bishal Nath Upreti, Jyoti Maharjan, Deegendra Khadka, Ram Chandra Poudel and Rabindra Dhakal (National Academy of Science and Technology, NAST); Lakpa Phuti Sherpa and Tanka Paudel (Nepal Mountain Academy, NMA); Gilles Bourbao and François-Xavier Léger (Ambassadors of France in Nepal); Buddha Lama, Om Bahadur « Vasan » Tarum, Dawa Tamang, Nabin Tamang, Niraj Jairu, Gautam Tamang, Mingma Tamang, Khem Puri, Pemba Tamang and Hiralal Tamang (Field helpers and land owners);
Christian France-Lanord and Thomas Rigaudier (CRPG); Maarten Lüpker and Antonio Pio Rinaldi (ETH); John Galetzka (UNAVCO-USGS); Laurent Bollinger and Patrick Richon (CEA); Chiara Groppo and Franco Rolfo (UniTO); Damien Deldicque (ENS); Elodie Müller and Olivier Sissmann (IFPEN); Damien Jougniot and Alexis Maineult (Sorbonne Université); Jana H. Börner and Klaus Spitzer (TUBAF); Steve E. Ingebritsen (USGS); Dominique Genty (Université de Bordeaux); Claude Mugler, Valérie Daux, Michel Stievenard, Édouard Régnier and Monique Pierre (LSCE); Achim Bräuning and Sugam Aryal (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg); Michaël Manga (Berkeley); Fátima Viveiros, Catarina Silva and Vittorio Zanon (IVAR); Jean Vandemeulebrouck and Svetlana Byrdina (ISTerre); Monique Fort (UPC); Pierre Agrinier, Jabrane Labidi, Pierre Cartigny, François Prevot, Nelly Assayag and Carine Chaduteau (IPGP).

Radon and Radium in the Environment:
Tadeusz A. Przylibski (Wrocław University of Technology); Patrick Richon and Jean Aupiais (CEA); Robin G.M. Crockett (University of Northampton); Gavin K. Gillmore (Kingston University); Alcides J.S.C. Pereira (Coimbra University); Elodie Williard and Yoann Richard (Orano); Susana Barbosa (INESC TEC); Brigitte Zanda (LMCM-MNHN); Pierre Rochette (CEREGE); Ludovic Ferrière (NHMV); Édouard Chardat (Algade); Pierre-Yves Meslin (IRAP); Benoit Sabot (LNHB-CEA); Francis Douay (ISA Lille); Valérie Laperche, Hervé Théveniaut and Blandine Clozel-Leloup (BRGM); Jean-François Didon-Lescaut and Philippe Martin (UMR Espace); Jean-Marc Ourcival (CEFE/CNRS); Manuel Moreira (OSUC); Charles Poitou, Hélène Bouquerel, Yves Gaudemer, Jérôme Gaillardet and Julien Bouchez (IPGP).

Eruptive Volcanic Columns:
Guillaume Carazzo, Édouard Kaminski and Steve Tait (IPGP); Fabrizio Ferrucci and Antonio Costa (INGV); Yujiro J. Suzuki (University of Tokyo); Thomas Aubry (University of Cambridge).

Rock Mechanics:
Alexandre Schubnel, Damien Deldicque and Jérôme Fortin (ENS); Éric Pili (CEA); Olivier Beyssac (IMPMC); Nicolas Mélard (C2RMF); François Xavier Passelègue (Université de Nice); Javier Escartin (IPGP); Sergio Vinciguerra (University of Leicester).

Underground Microclimate and Preservation of Decorated Caves:
François Bourges (GEConseil); Dominique Genty (Université de Bordeaux); Bruno Lartiges and Stéphane Bonnet (GET); Stéphanie Touron, Faisal Bousta, Johann Leplat and Millena Frouin (CRC-LRMH); Rémi Losno and Céline Pisapia (IPGP); Claude Mugler (LSCE); Éric Mauduit (DRAC Occitanie); Michel Lorblanchet; Patrick Richon (CEA); Jean-Louis le Mouël and Aude Isambert (IPGP); Audrey Hemon and Thomas Velter (Etablissement public national du Mont-Saint-Michel); Olivier Penisson (Centre des monuments nationaux).