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Matthias Bernet
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: +33 476 514 075
– fax: +33 476 635 252

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

  • 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

  • 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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