Scientist

Bénédicte Ménez (Professor, Paris Diderot University) is leading the geobiology group at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (France). Her main research interest is the study of the deep biosphere, for which she developed microimaging and spectroscopic approaches that allow characterizing the interactions between the intraterrestrial life and its rocky habitats.

Lab

The Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris-Sorbonne Paris Cité is a Joint Research Unit CNRS-Paris Diderot University (265 scientists/engineers/technicians and 155 postdocs/PhDs) which conducts research and provides teaching in all fields of the solid Earth (geophysics, geochemistry, quantitative geology). It is involved I numerous international collaborative projects (IODP, French National research agency …) and research programs involving industry (TOTAL, SCHLUMBERGER, ADEME …).

IPGP has access to high resolution equipments for in situ analysis (clean labs, electronic microscopy, Raman, FTIR, DNA/RNA labs, mass spec, stable isotopes labs …) along with close collaborations with synchrotron beamlines. It manages the doctoral school of Earth Sciences of the Paris Diderot University).

Team

• Bénédicte Menez, Professor (Geomicrobiology, Microimaging)
• Mark Van Zuilen, CNRS Research scientist (Geomicrobiology)
• Emmanuelle Gérard, IPGP Research engineer (Molecular ecology)