Recently completed PhD theses
| Defense Year | Student | Supervisors | Title | Group | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Andrea Fucelli | Rossana Martini | Sedimentology and stratigraphy of Upper Triassic carbonates from Hosselkus Limestone and Luning Formation (Western USA) | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2024 | Şafak Utku Sönmez | Robert Moritz | Late Cretaceous Epithermal Systems of the Bolnisi Mining District, Georgia and the Artvin District, Turkey | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2024 | Corin Jorgenson | Luca Caricchi | The Curious Case of Colli Albani: a petrological view of explosive mafic-alkaline systems | Petrology and Volcanology | |
| 2023 | Elliot Jiwani-Brown | Matteo Lupi | The Anatomy Of A Magmatic System, Revealed By Multi-Disciplinary Seismological Methods In Central Costa Rica | Crustal Deformation and Fluid Flow | |
| 2023 | Davide Carraro | Andrea Moscariello | Architectural and Compositional Analysis of a Large Fluvial-Fan Succession: a Multidisciplinary Case Study from the Paleocene-Eocene Colton Formation, Uinta Basin, Central Utah | Reservoir Geology and Sedimentary Basin Analysis | |
| 2023 | Stefano Mannini | Joël Ruch | Multi-Temporal Deformation at Active Volcanic Rift Zones Combining Photogrammetry and Field Observations | Volcano Tectonic Laboratory | |
| 2023 | Clémentine Antoine | Urs Schaltegger | Timescales and emplacement rates of the Karoo Large Igneous Province: the case of the Drakensberg flood basalts (Lesotho/South Africa) | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2023 | Nikhil Sharma | Sébastien Castelltort | Enregistrement sédimentaire de la propagation de signaux climatiques à travers la reconstitution des paléopentes et l'architecture fluviatile Eocène de la formation Escanilla, bassin d'avant-pays sud-pyrénéen, Espagne | Earth Surface Dynamics | |
| 2023 | Martin Senger | Urs Schaltegger | Dating the Great Oxidation Event in South Africa | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2023 | Ali Aluç | Robert Moritz | Magmatic-Hydrothermal Evolution and Geological Framework of the Kirazh Epithermal Au and Porphyry Cu deposits, Turkey | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2023 | Cheikh Ibrahima Faye | Robert Moritz | Contribution to the study of the gold mineralization associated with the granitic complex of Boboti (West African Craton, Kedougou Kenieba inlier) metallogenic and tectonic implications | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2023 | Valentin Marguin | Guy Simpson | Investigation of interactions between fluids and earthquakes based on numerical modelling | Earth Surface Dynamics | |
| 2023 | Alessandro Musu | Luca Caricchi | Quantifying the thermo-chemical evolution of magma reservoirs using experimental mineral chemistry | Petrology and Volcanology | |
| 2023 | Tamara El Hossny | Elias Samankassou | Evolutionary history of tselfatiiforms, a weird group of Cretaceous ray-finned fishes: with a Focus on Lebanese Taxa | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2023 | Göksu Uslular | Joël Ruch | 3D modelling of Central Anatolian Maars Using Unmanned Air Vehicles and Comparison of Morphological, Depositional, Geophysical and Geochemical Characteristics | Physical Volcanology and Geological Risks | |
| 2022 | Marion Alcanié | Matteo Lupi | Integration of geophysical and geological data into Basin-scale groundwater flow models for the investigation of geothermal resources | Crustal Deformation and Fluid Flow | |
| 2022 | Marion Grosjean | Robert Moritz | Cenozoic subduction to post-subduction epithermal-porphyry systems of the Lesser Caucasus | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2022 | Christophe Ferrante | Rossana Martini | Evolutionary history of coelacanth fishes (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) based on new evidence from Triassic and Jurassic of Switzerland | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2022 | Jeanne Armelle Bilobé | Elias Samankassou | Structure et évolution tectonostratigraphique du bassin sédimentaire de Mamfé, sud-ouest Cameroun. | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2022 | Inés Segovia Campos | Daniel Ariztegui | Investigating the potential of intracellular mineral inclusions (micropearls) in microorganisms as a novel bioremediation method | Limnogeology and Geomicrobiology | |
| 2022 | Oliver Higgins | Luca Caricchi | Physical processes controlling the recurrence rate of eruptions at St Kitts and St Martin magmatic systems (Lesser Antilles) | Petrology and Volcanology | |
| 2022 | Inès Barrenechea | Daniel Ariztegui | «Marine Biodiversity from Past to Recent : Insights from Sedimentary DNA» | Limnogeology and Geomicrobiology | |
| 2021 | Aaron Hantsche | Kalin Kouzmanov / Robert Moritz | Distal skarns as an ore-forming environment | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2021 | Verónica Ferreira Antunes | Matteo Lupi | Seismic Study of the Great Geneva Basin in a Geothermal Exploration Context : Characterization of the Low-Rate Microseismicity Background and Tool-Development for Locating Weak Emergent Events | Crustal Deformation and Fluid Flow | |
| 2021 | Ariadni Georgatou | Massimo Chiaradia | Behaviour of chalcophile metals during crustal evolution of subduction and post--subduction magmas | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2021 | Nicolò Del Piero | Rossana Martini | Upper Triassic carbonate systems from the Panthalassa: new insights into their sedimentology, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and rock-forming organisms | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2021 | Abdallah S. Bakri now postdoc at Caltech | Sébastien Castelltort | Martian drainage networks | Earth Surface Dynamics | |
| 2021 | Lucas Vimpere | Sébastien Castelltort | Multi-scale quantitative sedimentology of Upper Pleistocene coastal dunes from the Northern Bahamas and Western Australia | Earth Surface Dynamics | |
| 2021 | Francisco Bataller Torre | Andrea Moscariello | The Late Ordovician Deglacial: a Geochemical, Sedimentological, Seismic and Modern Analogue Depositional Characterization in the Murzuq Basin, Lybia | Reservoir Geology and Sedimentary Basin Analysis | |
| 2021 | Weikai Li | Zoltán Zajacz | Controls of Oxygen Fugacity on Porphyry Copper Deposits : From Sources to Ores | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2020 | Maria Teresa Bellver Baca | Massimo Chiaradia | Magmatic and time-scale factors controlling the association of porphyry-type deposits with high Sr/Y magmas. | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2020 | Luis Ordonez Rendon | Daniel Ariztegui | Geochimical cycles in Lake Towuti, Indonesia, and the dominant factors ruling Fe isotopes fractionation. | Limnogeology and Geomicrobiology | |
| 2020 | Joaquin Bastias | Richard Spikings | Tectonic history of the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2020 | Stefano Pollastri | Costanza Bonadonna | Theoretical, Experimental and Field Constraints of Volcanic Particle Aggregation | Physical Volcanology and Geological Risks | |
| 2020 | Louis Honegger now Scientific Mediator at EPFL | Sébastien Castelltort | Source-to-sink propagation of climate signals - Example of the Eocene South-Pyrenean basin. | Earth Surface Dynamics | |
| 2020 | Marine Maillet | Elias Samankassou | Pennsylvanian reefs in South China | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2020 | Lucia Dominguez Barragan | Costanza Bonadonna | Impact Assessment Framework Accounting for the Life Cycle of Volcanic Ash. | Physical Volcanology and Geological Risks | |
| 2020 | Daniil Popov | Richard Spikings | Advancing alkali feldspar and muscovite 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2020 | Antoine Haddad | Matteo Lupi | Earthquakes, Fluids and Neotectonics: Cases Studies of two Plate Boundaries in the Mediterranean Region | Crustal Deformation and Fluid Flow | |
| 2020 | Anna Rauch | Mario Sartori | Dealing with Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Geological Maps with Focus on Bedrock Geology. | Physical Volcanology and Geological Risks | |
| 2020 | Giovan Peyrotty | Rossana Martini | Sedimentology, biostratigraphy and diagenesis of Upper Triassic shallow–water carbonates from Japan and Russian Far East: New investigations on the Panthalassa Ocean | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2020 | Matthew Edwards | Costanza Bonadonna | Fragmentation of mafic magmas | Physical Volcanology and Geological Risks | |
| 2020 | Gregor Weber | Luca Caricchi | 'Magma fluxes, timescales and petrological diversity in volcanic plumbing systems | Petrology and Volcanology | |
| 2020 | Adam Curry | Luca Caricchi | Forecasting the recurrence rate of volcanic eruptions (FEVER Project) | Petrology and Volcanology | |
| 2020 | Emmanuelle Ricchi | Urs Schaltegger / Edwin Gnos | Time and temperature of Alpine hydrothermal monazite crystallization | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2020 | Inès Eymard | Daniel Ariztegui | Organomineralisation in freshwater stromatolites of northern Patagonia (Argentina) - A geomicrobiological study | Limnogeology and Geomicrobiology | |
| 2019 | Chen Chen | Sébastien Castelltort | Propagation of multi-millennial sediment supply signals down river systems. | Earth Surface Dynamics | |
| 2019 | Simon Boivin | Rossana Martini | Coral Recovery after the End-Triassic Mass Extinction: Insights on the Liassic Biodiversity from Moroccan and French New Collections | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2019 | Bocar Sy | Corine Frischknecht / David Consuegra | Le rôle de la science citoyenne dans l'évaluation de l'aléa d'inondation | Physical Volcanology and Geological Risks | |
| 2019 | Raphael Normand | Guy Simpson | Geomorphological and sedimentological signals of deformation in a silent subduction zone: An investigation of the Makran (Iran). | Earth Surface Dynamics | |
| 2019 | Agathe Martignier | Daniel Ariztegui | "Micropearls: a New Biomineralization Process in Eukaryotes" | Limnogeology and Geomicrobiology | |
| 2019 | Philipp Widmann | Urs Schaltegger | High-precision time resolution of environmental change and biotic response during Permian and Triassic climate variations | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2019 | Luis Otavio Fortes De Lena | Urs Schaltegger | Establishing a robust timeframe for environtmental change in the geological past though combined use of high-precision U-pb geochronology of zircon form volcanic ash and age-depth modeling | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2018 | Erika Baldessin | Pascal Kindler | Les dolomies cénozoïques de la plate-forme de Mayaguana (Bahamas). | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2018 | Gabriel Hunger | Andrea Moscariello | High resolution study of sedimentary and paleo-environmental responses to tectonic and climatic forcing: The Marino Formation (Agentina). | Reservoir Geology and Sedimentary Basin Analysis | |
| 2018 | Vincent Casanova | Lluís Fontboté | Fluid processes and deposition mechanisms in a zoned high-sulfidation carbonate-replacement epithermal system: Colquijirca. | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2018 | Eduardo Rossi | Costanza Bonadonna | A new perspective on Volcanic Particle Sedimentation and Aggregation | Physical Volcanology and Geological Risks | |
| 2018 | Annette Suessenberger | Susanne Theodora Schmidt | Thermal evolution of the Jurassic to Tertiary sedimentary sequence in the Patagonian Fold-and-thrust belt. | Petrology and Volcanology | |
| 2018 | Eva Hartung | Luca Caricchi | The fate of magma in the Earth's crust: plutons and volcanic eruptions. | Petrology and Volcanology | |
| 2018 | Aymeric Le Cotonnec | Andrea Moscariello | Sedimentary Facies, 3D Architecture and Modelling of Coal-bearing Coastal Plain Deposits (Eastern Kentucky, US). | Reservoir Geology and Sedimentary Basin Analysis | |
| 2018 | Mahmoud Leila | Andrea Moscariello | Sedimentology, organic geochemistry and reservoir characterization of the Upper Miocene sediments onshore Nile Delta, Egypt | Reservoir Geology and Sedimentary Basin Analysis | |
| 2018 | Maud Brentini | Andrea Moscariello | Subsurface stratigraphy and architecture of the Geneva Basin. | Reservoir Geology and Sedimentary Basin Analysis | |
| 2018 | Gyongyver Jennifer Fischer | Pascal Kindler | Géologie de la subsurface de l’île de Mayaguana, SE de l’archipel des Bahamas. | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2018 | Valerie Baumann | Costanza Bonadonna | Rain-triggered Lahar Initiation in Volcanic Areas | Physical Volcanology and Geological Risks | |
| 2017 | Eric Heerwagen | Rossana Martini | Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Upper Triassic shallow water carbonates from the Sonora and Vizcaino terranes, Mexico. | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2017 | Marta Marchegiano | Daniel Ariztegui | Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Lake Trasimeno (Italy) since the Late Pleistocene. | Limnogeology and Geomicrobiology | |
| 2017 | Elme Rusillon | Andrea Moscariello | Rock Typing of Deep Geothermal Reservoirs in the Greater Geneva Basin. | Reservoir Geology and Sedimentary Basin Analysis | |
| 2017 | Federico Brogi | Costanza Bonadonna | Combining geophysical observations and numerical modelling for an improved prediction of volcanic ash dispersal. | Physical Volcanology and Geological Risks | |
| 2017 | Christian Bergemann | Urs Schaltegger / Edwin Gnos | Age and crystallization duration of Alpine cleft monazite. | Earth Surface Dynamics | |
| 2017 | André Navin Paul | Richard Spikings | Advancing U-Pb high temperature thermochronology by combining single grain and intra-grain dating. | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2017 | Hervé Rezeau | Robert Moritz | Tracing metal enrichment of two porphyry deposits in the Tertiary Meghri-Ordubad pluton, southern Armenia: The Agarak Cu-Mo deposit (Eocene) and the world-class Kadjaran Mo-Cu deposit (Miocene). | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2016 | Antonio Benvenuti | Andrea Moscariello | Tunnel valleys and terminal glacial systems: an integrated study approach of complex sedimentary environments | Reservoir Geology and Sedimentary Basin Analysis | |
| 2016 | Valentin Chesnel | Elias Samankassou | Facies, Geometry and Stratal Patterns of the Valdorria Carbonate Platform (Pennsylvanian, Northern Spain) | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2016 | Camille Peybernes | Rossana Martini | The Upper Triassic atoll-type carbonates of Japan : sedimentology and hight resolution biostratigraphy. | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2016 | Arnoud Slootman | Andrea Moscariello | Supercritical density flows on cool-water carbonate ramps - The Lower Pleistocene of Favignana Island, Italy | Reservoir Geology and Sedimentary Basin Analysis | |
| 2016 | Marie-Caroline Pinget | Sébastien Castelltort | Supergene enrichment and exotic mineralization at Chuquicamata, Chile. In cooperation with CODELCO. | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2016 | Bertrand Rottier | Kalin Kouzmanov / Lluís Fontboté | Magmatic and hydrothermal fluid processes at the origin of the giant porphyry-related epithermal polymetallic deposit of Cerro de Pasco (Central Peru) | Physical Volcanology and Geological Risks | |
| 2016 | Bjoern Baresel | Urs Schaltegger | High-precision chronology across the Permian-Triasic boundary in southern China using U-Pb dating of zircon from volcanic ash beds | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2015 | Haseeb Zia | Guy Simpson | Advance and application of a surface process model for the simulation of sediment routing systems. | Earth Surface Dynamics | |
| 2015 | Neda Ghazipour | Guy Simpson | Study of the size and distribution of landslides in an active mountain belt: Lorestan and Fars area, Zagros. | Earth Surface Dynamics | |
| 2015 | Camille Thomas | Daniel Ariztegui | The Dead Sea Drilling Project: Investigating the Subsurface Biosphere. | Limnogeology and Geomicrobiology | |
| 2015 | Gholamhossein Bagheri | Costanza Bonadonna | Numerical and experimental investigations of particle aggragation. | Physical Volcanology and Geological Risks | |
| 2015 | Mélissa Ortelli | Kalin Kouzmanov / Lluís Fontboté | Chemistry and P-T conditions of fluids trapped in co-genetic opaque ore and transparent gangue minerals: What are the real ore-precipitating fluids? | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2015 | Nicolas Saintilan | Lluís Fontboté | Spatial controls, age and origin of stratabound sandstone-hosted and vein Pb-Zn deposits in the Swedish Caledonides. | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2015 | Monsalve Marin Carlos Albeiro | Georges Gorin | Etude paléoécoloque de haute résolution de l’Holocène inférieur dans le Páramo de Frontino (Antioquia, Colombie). | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2015 | Aldo Bendezu Juarez | Kalin Kouzmanov / Lluís Fontboté | Petrology, Geochronology, Mineralization, and Structural Control of Multiple Porphyry Centers in the Miocene Magmatic-Hydrothermal (Cu, Mo, Ag, Pb, Zn) System of Morococha, Central Peru. | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2015 | Jeremy Ragusa | Pascal Kindler | Pétrographie, stratigraphie et provenance du Flysch des Voirons (Nappe du Gurnigel, Haute-Savoie, France) | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2015 | Sébastien Biasse | Costanza Bonadonna | New strategies for volcanic hazard and risk assessment. | Physical Volcanology and Geological Risks | |
| 2015 | Neda Ghazipour | Costanza Bonadonna | Study of the size and distribution of landslides in an active mountain belt: Lorestan and Fars area, Zagros. | Physical Volcanology and Geological Risks | |
| 2014 | Seyedabolfazl Hosseini | Pascal Kindler | Biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of Lower Cretaceous formations from SW Zagros Basin (SW Iran). | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2014 | Katrina Kremer | Stéphanie Girardclos | Reconstructing 4000 years of event history in deep Lake Geneva (Switzerland-France): Insights from the sedimentary record. | Limnogeology and Geomicrobiology | |
| 2014 | Birane Niane | Robert Moritz | Impacts environnementaux liés à l'utilisation du mercure lors de l'exploitation artisanale de l'or dans la région de Kédougou (Sénégal oriental). | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2014 | Alexandra Skopelitis | Urs Schaltegger | Formation of a Tonalitic Batholith through Sequential Accretion of Magma Batches: a Study of Chemical Composition, Age and Emplacement Mechanisms of the Adamello Batholith, N Italy. | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2013 | Mortaza Pirouz | Guy Simpson | The Geometry and Sedimentary Record of Tectonics in the Neogene Zagros Foreland Basin. | Earth Surface Dynamics | |
| 2013 | Cyril Chelle-Michou | Massimo Chiaradia | Geochronologic and petrologic evolution of composite batholiths and the formation of giant porphyry-related Cu deposits. | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2013 | Joern Frederik Wotzlaw | Urs Schaltegger | From precise date to process rate: a high-precision zircon U-Pb geochronology perspective on the timing, rates and durations of geological processes | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2013 | Mélanie Gretz | Rossana Martini | Biotic, environmental and climatic changes across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary: causes and effects highlighted via the Liassic coral reef associations | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2013 | Lina Maria Ospina Ostios | Pascal Kindler | Géologie des Voirons, Haute-Savoie, France). | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2013 | Aurèle Vuillemin | Daniel Ariztegui | Characterizing the subsurface biosphere in Lake Potrok Aike sediments (Argentina). | Limnogeology and Geomicrobiology | |
| 2013 | Chloé Pretet | Elias Samankassou | Climate reconstructing usig 44/40Ca and 88/86Sr isotopes in annually banded reef corals. | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2013 | Cindy Ann Broderick | Urs Schaltegger | Timescales and petrologic processes during incremental pluton assembly: a case from the Val Fredda Complex, Adamello batholith, N. Italy. | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2013 | Roelant Van Der Lelij | Richard Spikings / Urs Schaltegger | Reconstructing North-Western Gondwana with implications for the evolution of the Iapetus and Rheic Oceans: a geochronological, thermochronological and geochemical study. | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2013 | Ryan Cochrane | Richard Spikings / Urs Schaltegger | U-Pb thermochronology, geochronology and geochemistry of NW South America: rift to drift transition, active margin dynamics and implications for the volume balance of continents. | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology | |
| 2013 | Johannes Mederer | Robert Moritz | Regional setting, geological context and genetic aspects of polymetallic hydrothermal ore deposits from the Kapan ore district, Southern Armenia: a contribution to the Mesozoic island arc metallogeny of the Lesser Caucasus. | Mineral Resources and Geofluids | |
| 2012 | Sylvain Rigaud | Rossana Martini | The Late Triassic Martin Bridge carbonate platform (Wallowa terrane, NW U.S.A.): Sedimentology, biostratigraphy, and contribution to the understanding of aragonitic and microgranular foraminifers. | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology | |
| 2010 | Jérome Chablais | Rossana Martini | Sedimentology and Biostratigraphy of the Upper Triassic Atoll-type Carbonates of the Sambosan Accretionary Complex (Panthalassan Domain, Japan) : Depositional Setting, Paleobiogeography and Relationship to their Counterparts in the Tethys. | Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology |