Dr. Thomas P. Ferrand

Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in
Raum L611
12249 Berlin
Professional Experience
09/2020 – 08/2021
Postdoctoral fellow, Institut des Sciences de la Terre d’Orléans
05/2019 – 05/2020
Postdoctoral scholar, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
02/2018 – 01/2019
Project scientist, Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
03/2017 – 08/2017
Postdoctoral researcher, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Education
11/2013 – 02/2017
PhD in Earth & Environmental Sciences – Labortoire de Géologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Paris, France
01/2012 – 10/2013
Master in geology – ENSG, Nancy, France
09/2009 – 12/2011
Master in geophysics – EOST, Strasbourg, France
Professional affiliation (Memberships, editorial services for journals etc.)
Memberships
- Japan Geoscience Union
- European Geosciences Union
- Mineralogical Society of America
- American Geophysical Union
- Geophyse
Peer reviews for
- Tectonophysics
- American Mineralogist
- Scientific Reports
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Marine & Petroleum Geology
- Journal of Geophysical Research
- Contributions to Mineralogy & Petrology
- Physics of the Earth & Planetary Interiors
- Minerals
- Earth & Planetary Science Letters
Invited Conference Talks
2022
Serpentine Days, Genova, Italy
2017
Labex MATISSE annual meeting, UPMC, Paris
JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting, Chiba, Japan
2016
Rock Deformation Gordon Research Conference, Andover, NH, USA
Invited Seminar Talks
2021
Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Earth Sciences Research Group, The University of Liverpool, UK (online)
Data Science and Computational Seismology Lab, MSU, USA (online)
2020
Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Japan (online)
2019
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Building Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
Unité Matériaux et Transformations, Lille, France
Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy, France
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
2018
Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan
Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Japan
2017
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan
Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
2015
Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Strasbourg, France
2019
Mantle rheology and seismicity (SiO-UCSD; M.Sc.)
The seismic rupture: natural and experimental insights (BRI Tsukuba; M.Sc.)
2015-2017
Field geology, rheology, tectonics (ENS Paris; B.Sc., French Alps)
2016
Water & seismicity in the subduction factory (IPGP; M.Sc.)
2014-2016
Thermodynamics (ENS Paris; B.Sc.)
Current research interests
My specialty is mixing geological observations and experimental geophysics. Mostly working on the mantle rheology either in the lab (Ferrand & Deldicque, 2021; Ferrand, 2019a, 2019b; Ferrand et al., 2018; Ferrand et al., 2017; Gasc et al., 2017), on the field (Ferrand et al., 2018) or via geophysical methods (Ferrand, 2022?; Craiu et al., 2022?; Mao et al., 2021; Ferrand & Manea, 2021; Ferrand, 2020a, 2020b; Kita & Ferrand, 2018), I also took part in deformation experiments on carbonates (Baud et al., 2017) and high-grade oceanic rocks (Incel et al., 2017). I focus as much as I can on the comparison between natural and laboratory features and processes (Ferrand et al., 2021; Kita & Ferrand, 2018) and the significance of laboratory experiments in the interpretation of geophysical data (Ferrand, 2022?, Ferrand & Manea, 2021; Ferrand, 2020a, 2020b; Ferrand,2019a, 2019b).
Current Grants
Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Lab Experience
D-DIA multianvil apparatus under synchrotron radiation
- APS, Chicago, 2019-2022? (ongoing project, slowed down due to COVID);
- APS, Chicago, 2014-2016 (3 weeks in total) >> Incel et al. (2017), Ferrand et al., (2017), Gasc et al. (2017);
- ESRF, Grenoble, 2014-2016 (2 weeks in total) >> Hilairet et al. (2022?).
Griggs apparatus
- New-generation Griggs apparatus (ongoing project in collaboration with ISTO, Orléans, France);
- Setting up and start-up of the Griggs apparatus newly installed in Orléans;
- Ruhr Universität Bochum, 2014.
1-atm rig apparatus
- ERI, Tokyo, 2018 (high-temperature deformation of germanates). >> Ferrand & Deldicque (2021).
Rockland multi-anvil
- SiO-UCSD, 2019 (electrical conductivity measurements). >> Ferrand (2022?)
Piston-cylinder
- SiO-UCSD, 2019 (first material sintering for ongoing project);
- Ruhr Universität Bochum, 2014 >> Incel et al. (2017), Ferrand et al. (2017).
Field Experience
2021
Puy de Dôme, France (2 days)
2018
Horoman peridotite and surroundings, Hokkaido, Japan (1 week)
2013-2017
Balmuccia peridotite, Piedmont, Italy (1-2 months in total)
2015-2017
Erro-Tobbio peridotite, Voltri, Ligurian Alps, Italy (some days)
Alpes de Haute Provence (7 weeks in total)
2015
Holsnøy, Bergen Arcs (1 week)
2014
North Pyrenean Zone (some days)
Erro-Tobbio peridotite, Dent Blanche, Monviso, Apennines... (1 week; ZIP starter 2)
2013
Southern Pyrenees and Ebro Basin, 2 weeks
2012
Sultanate of Oman (1 week)
2009
Alpes de Hute Provence (1 week)
Peer-reviewed publications
Li, J., Ferrand, T.P., Zhou, T., Ritsema, J., Stixrude, L., Chen, M. (2023): Ultra-low-velocity anomaly inside the Pacific Slab near the 410-km discontinuity. Communications Earth & Environment 4, 149.
Li, S., Li, J., Ferrand, T. P., Zhou, T., Lv, M., Xi, Z., Maguire, R., Han, G., Li, J., Bao, X., Jiang, Y., Bao, T. (2023): Deep Geophysical Anomalies Beneath the Changbaishan Volcano. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2022JB025671.
Craiu, A., Ferrand, T.P., Manea, E.F., Vrijmoed, J. C., Mărmureanu, A. A (2022): A switch from horizontal compression to vertical extension in the Vrancea slab explained by the volume reduction of serpentine dehydration. Scientific Reports 12, 22320.
Ferrand T. P. & Deldicque, D. (2021): Reduced viscosity of Mg2GeO4 with minor MgGeO3 between 1000 and 1150°C suggests solid-state lubrication at the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary. Minerals 11(6), 600.
Ferrand T. P. & Manea, E. F. (2021): Dehydration-induced earthquakes identified in a subducted oceanic slab beneath Vrancea, Romania. Scientific Reports 11(1), 1-9.
Ferrand T. P., Nielsen, S., Labrousse, L. & Schubnel, A. (2021): Scaling seismic fault thickness from the laboratory to the field. Journal of Geophyscial Research: Solid Earth e2020JB020694.
Ferrand T. P. (2021): Conductive channels in the deep oceanic lithosphere could consist of garnet pyroxenites at the fossilized lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary. Minerals 10, 12, 1107.
Ferrand T. P. (2020): Transition from amagmatic to volcanic margin: Mantle exhumation in the Vøring Basin before the Icelandic plume influence. Tectonophysics 776, 228319.
Ferrand T. P. (2019): Neither antigorite nor its dehydration is “metastable”. American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth & Planetary Materials 104(6), 788-790.
Ferrand T. P. (2019): Seismicity & mineral destabilizations in the subducting mantle up to 6 GPa, 200 km depth. Lithos 334, 205-230.
Kita, S. & Ferrand T. P. (2019): Physical mechanisms of oceanic mantle earthquakes: Comparison of natural and experimental events. Scientific Reports 8(1), 1-11.
Ferrand T. P., Labrousse, L., Eloy, G., Fabbri, O., Hilairet, N. & Schubnel, A. (2018): Energy balance from a mantle pseudotachylyte, Balmuccia, Italy. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 123(5), 3943-3967.
Ferrand T. P., Hilairet, N., Incel, S., Deldicque, D., Labrousse, L., Gasc, J., Renner, J., Wang, J., Green H. W. II & Schubnel, A. (2017): Dehydration-driven stress transfer triggers intermediate-depth earthquakes. Nature Communications 8(1), 1-11.
Incel, S., Hilairet, N., Labrousse, L., John, T., Deldicque, D., Ferrand T. P., Wang, Y., Renner, J., Morales, L. & Schubnel, A. (2017): Laboratory earthquakes triggered during eclogitization of lawsonite-bearing blueschist. Earth & Planetary Science Letters 459, 320-331.
Gasc, J., Hilairet, N., Yu, T., Ferrand T. P., Schubnel, A. & Wang, Y., (2017): Faulting of natural serpentinite: Implications for intermediate-depth seismicity. Earth & Planetary Science Letters 474, 138-147.
Ferrand T. P. (2017): Reproduction expérimentale d'analogues de séismes mantelliques par déshydratation de l'antigorite & Comparaison à des pseudotachylites naturelles. PhD Thesis. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University.
Baud, P., Rolland, A., Heap, M., Xu, T., Nicolé, M., Ferrand T. P., Reuschlé, T., Toussaint, R. & Conil, N. (2016): Impact of stylolites on the mechanical strength of limestone. Tectonophysics 690, 4-20.
Other Publications
Champallier, R., Précigout, J., Pinquier, Y., Ferrand T. P., Incel, S., Hilairet, N., Labrousse, L., Renner, J., Green H. W. II, Stunitz, H., Jolivet, L. & Schubnel, A. (2019) GRAAL: Griggs-type Apparatus equipped with Acoustics in the Laboratory: a new instrument to explore the rheology of rocks at high pressure.
Conference Abstracts
See my website https://thomaspferrand.wordpress.com/conferences/