Christophe Tournassat
Christophe Tournassat is currently a Visiting Faculty in the Energy Geosciences Division, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Laboratory. He is a Professor at the University of Orléans, France, and the Director of the Earth and Space Science Observatory in Orléans (OSUC). His scientific interest covers a range of topics from thermodynamics and kinetics of low-temperature water/solutes/rock interactions to multi-scale numerical modeling of retention and transfer processes in geological media. He co-developed, with Carl Steefel, the code CrunchClay, which can simulate coupled non-Fickian/non-Darcian transport together with reactive processes in nanoporous media. Christophe Tournassat is an associate editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, a member of the editorial board of Applied Clay Science, and the 2023 recipient of the Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Clay Scientist Award of the Clay Mineral Society.
Area of Interest
- Geochemistry
- Geology
- Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
- Environmental Science and Management
- Geophysics
Education
- Habilitation à diriger des recherches|University of Nantes, France|2016
- PhD|University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France|2003
