Emeline Bolmont's group research focuses on two aspects related to planets around low-mass stars: the simulation of the orbit and rotation of planets (in particular in multi-planet systems) and the simulation of planetary climates. The group is called DynaClim as it groups young scientists working on Dyna(mics) and Clim(ates). The list of members can be seen below.
 

She is now the director of the newly created Centre Vie dans l'Univers (https://www.unige.ch/sciences/cvu/), which regroups researchers from different disciplines: chemistry, physics, climatology, biology, geophysics, astrophysics. The aim of the center is to carry out interdisciplinary projects to advance science in the fundamental questions of: how did life appear on Earth? how could we distinguish/recognize life on other planets? 

 

Short bio: 

Emeline obtained her PhD from the University of Bordeaux, France, where she worked on the history and habitability of exoplanets orbiting low-mass stars and brown dwarfs at the Laboratoire d’astrophysique de Bordeaux (with Sean N. Raymond and Franck Selsis). She then did a two-year postdoctoral stay in the university of Namur, Belgium, with Anne-Sophie Libert, where she worked on deepening her knowledge on planetary climates. Finally, after two years as a postdoctoral researcher in the CEA, Saclay, France, where she worked on the modeling of tides with Stéphane Mathis, she joined the Observatory of Geneva as an assistant professor in November 2018. She got tenure early 2025 and is now associate professor.

 

Find the publications from Emeline and the DynaClim group here.

 

DynaClim Research group

• Mathilde Houelle (Research & teaching assistant) - Clim
• Siddharth Bhatnagar (Research & teaching assistant) - Clim
• Asena Kuzucan (Postdoctoral researcher) - Clim
• Leon Kwok (Research & teaching assistant) - Dyna
• Tim Kallioinen (Software Engineer) - DynaClim

 

Past members

• Alexandre Revol (Research & teaching assistant & Postdoctoral researcher) - Graduated PhD in January 2025 - soon postdoctoral researcher in Namur
• Marine Leyvraz (Master thesis student) - Graduated Master in July 2024 - Will start a PhD in October 2024 in Bern with prof. Thomas Frölicher 
• Guillaume Chaverot (Research & teaching assistant & Postdoctoral researcher) - Graduated PhD in September 2023 - now Postdoctoral fellow in Grenoble 
• Mariana Villamil Sastre (Master thesis student) - Graduated Master in July 2023 - now PhD student in Gröningen with Prof. Tim Lichtenberg