Emeline Bolmont

Associate Professor of Astrophysics · University of Geneva

Biography

Emeline Bolmont’s research group, DynaClim, combines planetary dynamics and climate modelling. Her research focuses on two aspects related to planets around low-mass stars: the simulation of the orbit and rotation of planets (in particular in multi-planet systems) and the simulation of planetary climates.

After completing her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, in 2010, she earned her PhD in astrophysics from the University of Bordeaux in 2013. Her doctoral research at the Laboratoire d’astrophysique de Bordeaux, supervised by Sean N. Raymond and Franck Selsis, focused on the history and habitability of exoplanets orbiting low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. She then did a two-year postdoctoral stay in the University of Namur, Belgium, with Anne-Sophie Libert, where she worked on deepening her knowledge on planetary climates. Finally, after two years as a postdoctoral researcher in the CEA, Saclay, France, where she worked on the modeling of tides with Stéphane Mathis, she joined the Observatory of Geneva as an assistant professor in November 2018.

She obtained tenure in early 2025 and is now an associate professor. She also directs the Centre Vie dans l’Univers, which brings together chemistry, physics, climatology, biology, geophysics and astrophysics to investigate how life arose on Earth and how it might be recognized on other planets.