Damien Jougnot

Born and raised in Dijon, France, Damien Jougnot received a Master of Hydrogeology from the University of Avignon in 2006 and a PhD degree in Geosciences in 2009 from University of Savoye on the geophysical study of transfer properties of a potential host rock for nuclear waste storage. Then, from 2009 to 2014, Damien was a Junior Lecturer at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Since 2015, Damien is a CNRS Researcher at UMR METIS in Sorbonne University, Paris, France. His current research activities mainly focus on how geophysical methods data can be used to better understand, quantify, and predict processes in the critical zone from the laboratory to the field scale. He woks on the development of petrophysical and rock physics relationship to take into account the effect of mesoscale heterogeneities (fracturation and partial saturation) on the signal generation. This was subject of the habilitation thesis (HDR) that Damien defended in 2019. Damien wants to push forward a more quantitative use of geophysics to better understand dynamic and complex processes in the critical zone, such as flow, transport, and (bio-)geochemical reactivity.