Ugo Nanni has started his PhD in October 2017 at the University Grenoble Alpes under the supervision of Christian Vincent and Florent Gimbert. He did a bachelor of Geosciences focused on structural geology and geodynamic processes (2014). After a first year of master at the Ecole Normale Supérieur de Paris he joined the University of Hong Kong to conduct a six-month research on the initiation of the South China Sea rifting (2015). He then integrated the team of Frederic Herman at the University of Lausanne to work on the development of the optically stimulated luminescence applied for glacial erosion quantification (2015). He continued his work with a focus on glacier dynamics by first joining the team of Jean Philippe Avouac at the California Institute of Technology (2016) before finishing his master at the University Grenoble Alpes (2017) where he worked on the coupling between subglacial hydrology and ice dynamic, with Olivier Gagliardini and Fabien Gillet-Chaulet.

He then joined Christian Vincent and Florent Gimbert to do his PhD with the objective to bring new constraints on the physics of glacier sliding and its modulation by subglacial hydrology using seismic observations and dedicated modelling. He is now working on the seasonal evolution of the seismic signal recorded on the Glacier d’Argentière (4 boreholes seismometers) in relation with physical quantities such as glacier sliding, surface velocity, water discharge and subglacial water pressure. He has actively took part on the preparation of the RESOLVE-Argentiere project as this deployment represent an important comitment for his PhD. He will work on the dense array dataset in close collaboration with P. Roux to study the subglacial hydrology evolution and with A. Helmstetter regarding the basal sliding and stick-slip processes.

Updated on 5 septembre 2018