Scientific coordinator of RESOLVE-Argentière, Research scientist CNRS

Florent Gimbert is interested in the mechanics of various Earth’s surface processes associated with ice, rock and water dynamics. He develops innovative observational and theoretical frameworks that allow making use of geophysical (mainly seismic) methods to infer key physical properties related to Glacier flow (basal sliding, internal ice deformation), open and confined channel flows (rivers, subglacial channels and associated sediment transport) and sea-ice drift. Florent is also interested in studying more fundamental aspects of granular-like transport as well as fracturation processes in mono- and multi-phasic flows using simple experimental and numerical experiments.

Florent acquired an initial background in Mathematics as an undergrad, and then studied Earth and Climate sciences as a master student at ENS Paris, France. He then completed a Ph.D. in mechanics applied to Earth systems supervised by Jérôme Weiss and David Amitrano at the ISTerre Laboratory of Grenoble, France, which he defended in November 2012. Florent then moved to the Caltech Seismolab (USA) for a 3-year postdoc (2013-2015) working mainly with Victor Tsai and Michael Lamb, before conducting a second 9 months postdoc (2016) in the Geomorphology group of Niels Hovius at the GFZ-Postdam (Germany). In June 2016 Florent was hired as a research scientist at CNRS (French National Research Centre) to work at the IGE (Environmental Geoscience Institute) laboratory in the University of Grenoble. In this context, Florent leads field instrumentation and modelling projects related to glacier and river dynamics, with the emphasis of designing innovative observational frameworks to unravel new physics at the field scale and test physically-based models.

Updated on 19 mars 2018