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Sophie Violette

Hydrogéologie

Bât. Lhomond-Erasme, pièce 325D

Tél. : 01 44 32 22 75

Email : sophie.violette@ens.fr


Characterization of aquifers/aquitards: geometry and hydrodynamic properties

Past evolution of hydro-systems for the understanding of their dynamics in the present, and even in the future: transient evolution of medium and long term hydro-systems

following climatic, geomorphological, tectonic and anthropic forcings

Study of the processes of recharge/evapotranspiration of shallow unconfined hydro-systems and quantification


Sophie Violette has joined the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Laboratoire de Géologie) for her research activity in 2014. She received a PhD (1993) then a HDR (2003) on Hydrogeology from the

University of Pierre et Marie CURIE (UPMC). She is Assistant Professor in Hydrogeology at the UPMC since 1995, and was doing her research at Laboratoire de Géologie Appliquée, then

UMR.7619-Sisyphe. She was invited as visitor scientist at John Hopkins University, team of Pr. Grant Garven (1999) then at Stanford University, team of Pr. Steve Gorelick (2005).

The main goal of her research activities is the understanding of groundwater flow at various spatial and time scales (watershed to sedimentary basins and daily to 10^6 years, respectively) by

identification of: 3D geometry (from geological and geophysical data), properties and physical processes involved (mechanical, hydrodynamic, heat and solute transfers) and boundary

conditions (Natural forcings: Tectonic, eustatism, climate and; Anthropogenic forcing: Pumping). Her scientific activity includes a large proportion of groundwater flow modelling constrained by:

geological, geochemical, isotopic or thermal data. She has a multidisciplinary background and a field experience performed in developed and developing regions submitted to various climates:

France (volcanic islands and sedimentary basins), Bulgaria and Madagascar (bedrocks), India (sedimentary basin), Ecuador and Indonesia (basaltic and andesitic volcanoes). Her expertise is

strengthened by a strong experience for collaborative research and coordination of research projects with national and international collaborators. Her research is funded by: public organisms

(AESN, ANDRA, ANR, ANRT, Chancellery of Universities, CRIF, INSU, IRSN, SEDIF), private companies (DANONE, EDF, ESA, GdF-Suez), Enterprise Foundations (Ensemble, Foundation

of France, Schlumberger, Véolia) or International organisms (PNUD, World bank). She has been serving as expert on hydrogeology for a number of national committees (ANDRA-COS,

IFPEn-CS, Universities-CSE, INRA-CSS) and reviewer for journals and funding agencies, national and international.


Main projects coordination


MBP - Paris Basin Modelling

  • 1999-2002 - Diagenesis & Hydrogeology, PNRH.99/35-01/44, CNRS-INSU & PPP
  • 2002-2005 – Paleoclimate & Hydrogeology, ECLIPSE II, CNRS-INSU & PPP
  • 2008-2010 – Tracers & Hydrogeology, PPP
  • 2012-2017 – Geothermy & Hydrogeology, CRIF & AESN
  • 2018-2019 – Albian-Water-Energy, AESN


GIIWS - Galápagos Islands: Integrated Water Study – International project

  • 2003-Present - www.galapagos-hydrology.fr


Sophie Violette is co-authored of more than 70 publications, 50 in top-tier peer-reviewed journals, contributed to 2 scientific book chapters, has given over 18 invited

lectures and seminars, and contributed to more than 120 presentations at national and international meetings. She has supervised (or co-supervised) 17 PhD fellows, 5

Post-doc fellows and 43 Master students.


She teaches the Applied Hydrogeology and the Quantitative Hydrogeology for the undergraduate and graduate levels (lectures, modelling seminars and fieldwork

training).