Damien Jougnot

After multi-disciplinary environmental studies, Damien Jougnot focused his research on environmental geophysics applied to unsaturated porous media. During his PhD thesis, Damien worked on the physical relation between geoelectrical measurements (electrical resistivity, spectral induced polarization, and self potential) and transport properties in porous media (ionic diffusion, hydraulic conductivity and thermal conductivity). This work was applied to a very low permeability clay-rock in order to better understand how the potential drying of a host rock might affect the migration of nuclear waste. Damien is now a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Niklas Linde at the Institute of Geophysics. His present research focuses on how spectral induced polarization and self-potential data can be used to better understand, quantify, and predict vadose zone processes from the laboratory to the field scale.

Born on December the 23rd 1982, in Chenôve (France)

2009-Present:
Post-doctoral fellow in the group of Niklas Linde
Institute of Geophysics, UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland

2007-2009:
Visiting scholar in the Hydrogeophysics group of André Revil
Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado, USA

2007-2009:
Teaching assistant, Exploration geophysics
University of Savoy, Le Bourget du Lac, France

2006-2009:
Ph.D., Environmental Geosciences
LGIT, University of Savoy, Le Bourget du Lac, France (2007-2009)
CEREGE, University of Aix-Marseille 3, Aix en Provence, France (2006-2007)
Supervisor: André Revil, Jean Vandemeulebrouck

2006:
Research assistant, Soil Science
LTHE, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France
Supervisor: Jolanta Lewandowska

2005-2006:
M.Sc., Environmental Hydrogeology
University of Avignon, Avignon, France

2002-2005:
B.Sc., Environmental & Geology Engineering
Institute EGID, University of Bordeaux 3, Bordeaux, France

2000-2002:
Technical degree, Environmental Biology
Institute of Technology, Jean Monnet University, St Etienne, France