Matthias BERNET

Matthias Bernet, Ph.D.

Professor of Geology

– Institut de Science de la Terre
– Université Grenoble Alpes
– OSUG C
– 1381 rue de la piscine
– CS 40700
– 38058 GRENOBLE CEDEX 9
– FRANCE

– email: matthias.bernet"at"univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
– phone: +33 4 56 52 11 35

Principal areas of research interests:

Evolution of mountain belts and sedimentary basins, geo-thermochronology, multidisciplinary sediment provenance analysis, diagenesis, and interactions between mountain building, Earth surface processes, and biodiversity

Responsibilities

• 2026 - ECOS-Nord Coordinator of Agronomics and Earth and Environmental Sciences
• 2024 - Responsible for the Licence 1 : Sciences de la terre et de l’environnement (STE), DLST, UGA
• 2021 - Coordinator of the IMAP steering committee at ISTerre
• 2017 - Scientific Director of the Geo-Thermochronology Laboratory, ISTerre, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
• 2009 - Director of the Fission-track laboratory. ISTerre, Université Grenoble Alpes, France

• 2020-2023 Research team leader (Team: Tectonics, Relief, Basins)
• 2020-2021 Co-director of graduate studies in Geodynamics, UGA
• 2016-2020 Member of the OSUG research committee
• 2011-2015 Member of the ISTerre Council, UJF, Grenoble, France
• 2008-2016 Director of applied graduate studies in Geosciences, M2P GER, UJF, Grenoble, France
• 2008-2016 Member of the OSUG Teaching Committee, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
• 2006-2009 Director of the Sedimentology Laboratory, LGCA, UJF, Grenoble, France

Post-docs

• 2018-2020 Ruben Rosenkranz, post-doc (ISTerre, UGA and CRPG Nancy), Bengal fan zircon exhumation signal from the Himalaya (part of an ANR project)
• 2008-2010 Christoph Glotzbach, Post-doc, (LGCA), Université Joseph Fourier. Thermo-Europe project, detrital apatite fission-track thermochronology of the Chambaran Megafan.

Ph.D. students

• 2026-2029 Hortense Carmelle, Ph.D. student (LGL-TPE, Lyon), main advisor Philippe Sorrel, Evolution of the Oligocene hydrographic network in the SW Alps: Updating the Molasse Rouge Chronostratigraphy.
• 2022-2025 Dorian Bienveignant, Ph.D. student (ISTerre), Determining the timing of fault activation during late alpine deformation in the Western Alps.
• 2013-2017 Alejandro Piraquive Bermudez, Ph.D. student (ISTerre), cotutelle between Université Grenoble Alpes and Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá. Structural Framework, deformation and exhumation of the Santa Marta Schists: Evolution of the north-western metamorphic belt from accretion of a Caribbean Terrain to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
• 2013-2016 Sergio Amaya, Ph.D. student, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá. Thermochronology and geochronology of the Santander Massif metamorphic basement
• 2011-2014 Mélanie Noury, Ph.D. student (ISTerre), Université Joseph Fourier. Exhumation of the southern Peruvian Andes: Thermochonologic and structural constraints
• 2009-2012 Sébastien Jourdan, Ph.D. student (ISTerre), Université Joseph Fourier. Multidisciplinary approach to reconstruct the Oligocene-Miocene evolution of the western Alps.
• 2007-2011 François Chirouze, Ph.D. student (LGCA), Université Joseph Fourier. Tectonic and climatic controls on large scale drainage systems in the Himalayan belt, and their evolution through the last 15 Ma.
• 2006-2009 Mauricio A. Bermúdez-Cella, Ph.D. student (LGCA), Université Joseph Fourier. Regional exhumation history of the Venezuelan Andes determined by bedrock and detrital thermochronology.

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