Claude Jaupart is a physicist and geologist who has carried out research in several different but related research topics, the thermal structure and evolution of continents, convection in the Earth's mantle, the cooling and crystallization of magma bodies in the Earth's crust and the dynamics of volcanic eruptions.
He uses laboratory experiments and simple theoretical developments to study fluid flow phenomena of relevance to geological phenomena. His research also relies on field studies and measurements and has taken him to many different places, in particular the Tibetan plateau and remote parts of the Canadian shield. A career-long interest is in the heat generated in rocks due to radioactive decay and its impact on crustal temperatures and on the convection regime of the Earth's mantle.
Claude Jaupart has received a number of awards, including the 1995 Silver Medal of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the 1998 Mergier-Bourdeix Prize of the Académie des Sciences, the 1999 Prestwich Medal of the Geological Society of London, the 2007 Holmes Medal of the European Geosciences Union and the 2015 Harry H. Hess Medal of the American Geophysical Union.
Professional position
- Professor of Geophysics, Institut de physique du globe de Paris
- Professor of Geophysics, University de Paris-Cité
