Past and current collaborative research projects

Currently I participate in the following collaborative research projects on the national and international level:

FRANCE

Western Alps Mountain Building and Biodiversity

This project on the tectonics and exhumation of the Western Alps was funded by LabEx OSUG in 2021, and was done in collaboration between members of the Tectonics Relief Basin team at ISTerre and the LECA at the University Grenoble Alpes.

Connected to this LabEx project is the Ph.D. thesis of Dorian Bienveignant on "Late stage deformation of the Western Alps foreland dated with calcite U-Pb dating of fault zones."

COLOMBIA

(U-Th)/He thermochronology and characterization of serpentinites in the Northern Andes of Colombia)

This project was supported by an ISTerre BQR SUD Grant 2022 and COLCIENCIAS grant71555
Caracterización de serpentinitas en Colombia y análisis de su relación con procesos sísmicos y volcánicos recientes
Convocatoria: 852-2019

The Northern Andes of Colombia hold the long-term record of the geological evolution of the northwestern South American plate. Evidence of a long-lasting subduction related arc volcanism during the Jurassic and from the Late Cretaceous to today is well exposed in the present-day Central Cordillera. Former suture zones and evidence of ancient subduction zones are preserved in the wide range of serpentinite outcrops throughout the Western and Central Cordillera, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Guajira.

Since 2021 I am participating in a collaborative research project with colleagues from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the Servicio Geologico Colombiano in Bogotá, which was funded by COLCINECIAS. The objective of this project is the characterization of serpentinites in Colombia and analysis of their relationship with recent seismic and volcanic processes, including (U-Th)/He dating of magnetite and spinel in collaboration with ISTerre, and prospecting for hydrogen anomalies. Fieldwork for sampling was done in July 2022.

Floresta massif thermal history

The Floresta massif project on the thermal history of the Floresta massif in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia was supported by a CNRS PICS grant. This project was done in collaboration with Prof. Carlos Zuluaga and Prof Carlos Vargas of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Bogota and Prof. Mauricio Bermudez of the UPTC at Sogamosa, as well as Prof. Barry Kohn of the University of Melbourne.

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