Prof. Dr. Cyril Chelle-Michou

Research area

Cyril Chelle-Michou’s research focuses on the study of mineral resources. He takes a cross-disciplinary approach where methods, data and concepts encompassing a broad range of fields (economic geology, geochronology, petrology, geochemistry, tectonics and numerical modelling) are interconnected to unravel the processes that have shaped our planet and generated the natural resources upon which our society relies. His approach considers mineral resource systems at the scale of the entire crust within which a range of geological processes may have converged to form small-scale metal concentrations.

His group’s main research objectives are to (1) identify as well as quantify the relative importance of various geological processes in controlling the size of mineral deposits and the endowment of mineral belts, (2) quantify magmatic-hydrothermal fluxes of dynamically (temporally and spatially) evolving systems, (3) develop new exploration methods and decision tools to help targeting the mineralisation with the biggest potential as early as possible, and (4) develop high-precision geochronological methods.