ERC project THEIA

- Current members -

• PI : David Cébron, CNRS researcher and team leader of the Geodynamo group of ISTerre

• Research Fellow (2024-2025) : Paul Pruzina, working on semi-convection dynamo in planetary spherical fluid layers in rapid rotation

• Research Fellow (2025-2026) : Paolo Personnettaz, working on parameterization of topographic effects in spherical planetary cores

• Engineer : Max Solazzo, CNRS engineer (ISTerre), who design and build the planned project experiments (turbulence studies)

• ISTerre collaborators : the Geodynamo group, in particular D. Jault for theory, N. Schaeffer for the XSHELLS simulations, R. Deguen and H.-C. Nataf for the experiments

- Past members -

• PhD (2020-2024) : Rémy Monville, working on small scale topographic effects (local models). Phd topic: Topographic coupling in planetary cores

• Research Fellow (2020-2025) : Jérémie Vidal, working on ellipsoidal planetary cores (global models) to study large scale topographic effects