I am a CNES Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE) in Aix-en-Provence, France. I am interested in how planetary bodies formed and evolved in the early times of the solar system. Specifically, I investigate the magnetic and structural properties of meteorites to understand how planetesimals—the building blocks of the planets—accreted, differentiated, and generated magnetic fields.
Before that, I was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at CEREGE. I obtained my PhD in Planetary Sciences at MIT in June 2021. I worked in the department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences with Benjamin Weiss. Prior to MIT, I spent four years at ISAE-Supaéro in France studying aeronautics and aerospace engineering. During this time, I did research on asteroid dynamiccv_maurel.pdfs at the Observatory of Belgrade (Serbia), asteroid surface processes at the University of Maryland (USA), and interaction lander–regolith at the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (France). You can find my CV here and reach me at cmaurel AT cerege.fr |