Contact

Inria centre Université Côte d'Azur and LJAD, University Côte d'Azur
Phone: (+33) (0)4 89 15 06 26.  
Email: roland.masson@inria.fr.

Vitae

• 2026---- DR at Inria centre University Côte d'Azur and member of LJAD, University Côte d'Azur
• 2011-2026 Professor of Applied Mathematics at the J.A. Dieudonné department of Mathematics, University Côte d'Azur.
• 2011-2023 Member of EPC Coffee, Inria centre Université Côte d'Azur.
• 1999-2011 Head of the Applied Mathematics Department, IFP New Energies.
• Habilitation Thesis in Mathematics, University of Marne-la-Vallée, 2006 Simulation of multiphase porous media flows and stratigraphic models (in french), slides (in french)
• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Paris VI university, 1999 Adaptive wavelet discretizations of elliptic and saddle point problems (in french)

Research interests

• Multi-physics simulations of complex subterranean geological systems
• Discretizations of PDEs on polyhedral meshes
• Iterative coupling algorithms and domain decomposition methods
• Thermo-Hydro-mechanical models in fractured/faulted porous media
• Multiphase-compositional Darcy flows in heterogeneous and fractured porous media
• Applications to geothermal systems, geological storage (CO2, gas, H2, nuclear wastes) modelling, mineral resources

Projects

• Project PHC Aurora Computational tools for fluid induced seismicity between the Porous Media group of the department of Mathematics of University of Bergen and the University Côte d'Azur (LJAD, Geoazur), funded by Campus France and the Norwegian Research Council, 2025-2026


• Project GEM3 Geophysical Modeling and multiscale methods, associated Inria team with LNCC (coordinated by Konstantin Brenner and Frederic Valentin) 2025-2027


• Project Mathématiques Souterraines (MathSout) of PEPR Math-Vives: with Inria, IFPEN, BRGM, University Côte d'Azur (LJAD) and CNRS (LJK,ISTerre) 2024-2029


• ANR PRCE Earth-Beat: Transient Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Couplings in Hydrothermal Systems - Application to Geothermal Eenergy and Giant Mineral Resources, with GeoRessources (project leader Fabrice Golfier), BRGM, UniCA LJAD, Mines ParisTech, LMV, Orano, 2024-2027


• Collaboration with BRGM and Andra on the development of the parallel open source sofware ComPASS 2021-2027


• HDTHM associate team: Hybrid-Dimensional Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical models


• ANR project CHARMS, High energy geothermal simulations in faulted reservoirs with code ComPASS


• Simulation of two phase Darcy flows in fractured porous media with discrete fracture matrix models


• Domain decomposition methods and reduced models for coupled porous and free flows