As an international multidisciplinary research and teaching centre and a centre of excellence in terms of human and technical resources, CEREGE covers almost the entire field of environmental geosciences.
By joining forces with other major national and international research structures and with industrial and technological players, CEREGE is now a centre of excellence in the field of geosciences.
CEREGE provides the academic and industrial scientific community with a range of high-tech resources.
CEREGE's teaching covers the entire spectrum of training in Earth and environmental sciences, from undergraduate to doctoral level.
Through the dissemination of its scientific communication, CEREGE aims to establish a permanent dialogue between science, research and the general public, especially the younger generation.
Current research:
Work on impact lenses (including ANR ET-Megafire) in Indochina, Ivory Coast and Latin America. Three theses co-supervised by Van Binh Nguyen (Hanoi University), Soro Petanki (Abidjan University) and Anna Musolini (AMU).
-Study of impact craters, mainly in Africa and Asia
-Paleoenvironment (including ANR Food-RE) fieldwork in Turkey and the Mediterranean region
-Archaeometry projects: identification of granite and basalt source quarries; ancient to modern period. Study areas: Europe, peri-Mediterranean, Cuba. Institut Arkaia funding
PI of theANR ET-Megafire (2022-2025) “Tropical megafires generated by tectite-producing extraterrestrial impacts in the Quaternary".
co-PI ofANR Food-RE (2022-2025)