Research and teaching centre
environmental geosciences
Research and teaching centre
environmental geosciences
Rochette Pierre

Rochette Pierre

ECE - Emeritus Research Teacher

TP-Earth and Planets

Contact details
Email. : rochette@cerege.fr
Tel: +33 (0)4 13 94 92 48

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

  • 1991- - Professor - CEREGE AMU
  • Rock Magnetism, Planetology, Archaeometry, Paleoenvironment

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)