Ongoing Projects

The WIND2WAVES project: measurements of waves and wind characteristics from the LéXPLORE platform in Lake Geneva

2026 – 2030: NET4TIP SNSF-COST project 
Network Approaches to Climate Tipping Mechanisms
funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (400 kCHF)
PIs: Maura Brunetti, Gregory Giuliani, Cristina Masoller

1/07 – 31/12/2025: TASTE - Measuring and analysing atmospheric conditions in vegetable greenhouses
funded by OPI (15 kCHF) 
PIs: Jérôme Kasparian, Dominique Fleury, Stéphane Goyette

24/09/2024 – 23/09/2028: COST Action CA23150 - pan-EUROpean BIoGeodynamics network (EUROBIG)
The main goal of this COST Action is to bridge geodynamics, climate, and biosphere research.
Chair: Taras Gerya
Participation of our group: M. Brunetti (Management Committee, Working Group (WG) 3, 6), J. Kasparian (WG2, 3), L. Moinat (WG3, 6), B. Kang (WG3) 

1/10/2023 – 30/09/2027: Base-Top-Earth Sinergia Project CRSII5 213539
Long-term evolution of the Earth from the base of the mantle to the top of the atmosphere: Understanding the mechanisms leading to `greenhouse' and `icehouse' regimes
funded by SNSF (2120 kCHF)
PIs: Paul Tackley, Maura Brunetti, Sébastien Castelltort, Gregory Giuliani

Completed Projects

1/11/2018 – 31/10/2023:  PaleoC4  Sinergia Project CRSII5_180253/1
Quantifying decamillennial changes in carbon cycling, climatic and biotic responses to Late Permian-Early Triassic volcanism,
funded by SNSF (2990 kCHF)
PIs: Hugo Bucher, Maura Brunetti, Urs Schaltegger, Torsten Vennemann

1/06/2021 – 31/05/2023: Agora project 202262
A role-playing game on water management and conflicts
funded by SNSF (46 kCHF)
PIs: Jérémy Lucchetti, Jérôme Kasparian

1/01/2017 – 31/12/2021: EU H2020 – FET Open
Laser lightning rod, in collaboration with GAP-Biophotonics

1/07/2018 – 30/06/2020: The University of Sydney – University of Geneva Collaboration Awards
Wind waves steepening in coastal areas
funded by UNIGE – USyd Strategic Partnership (12 kCHF)
PIs: Amin Chabchoub, Jérôme Kasparian

09/2019 – 03/2020: Innoscience – Science innovation hub
Agrolase, in collaboration with GAP-Biophotonics

1/02/2018 – 31/01/2022: SNSF Project 175697
Nonlinearity in optics and natural systems
funded by SNSF Division 2 (385 kCHF)
PI: Jérôme Kasparian

1/02/2015 – 31/02/2018: SNSF Project 155970
From non-linear optics to oceanic rogue waves
funded by SNSF Division 2 (356 kCHF)
PI: Jérôme Kasparian

1/09/2013 – 9/12/2015: R+D project (CTI 15574.1 PFES-ES)
Use of global palaeo-DEM (Digital Elevation Models) for palaeo-climate modelling: tectonic/climate interaction for the past 600 million years,
funded by Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) (442 kCHF)
PIs: Martin Beniston, Cyril Hochard, Maura Brunetti, Christian Vérard

2008 – 2015: Lake Model Intercomparison Project LakeMIP
PI: Stéphane Goyette