Dr. Nicolas Riel

Dr. Nicolas Riel

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My research lies at the intersection of phase equilibrium modeling, reactive fluid and magma transport, and 3-D geodynamic modeling.

Currently, my work focuses on three primary targets:

  • The development of MAGEMin, a thermodynamic equilibrium modeling set of tools tailored for geodynamic modeling coupling and systematic petrological applications.
  • The chemical evolution of the crust during magma and fluid transfer, investigated through structural analysis, thermodynamic modeling, geochemical data integration, and coupled thermo-mechanical simulations.
  • 2D and 3D geodynamic modeling of subduction initiation and associated mass and heat transfer processes, with implications for plate tectonics and lithospheric evolution.

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Teaching

Spring 2025

Geodynamic modeling with LaMEM - Heidelberg

Research

Recent Publications

  1. Riel, Nicolas, Duarte, Joao C, Almeida, Jaime, Kaus, Boris JP, Rosas, Filipe, Rojas-Agramonte, Yamirka, and Popov, Anton, “Subduction initiation triggered the Caribbean large igneous province,” Nature Communications, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2023, p. 786.  
  2. Duarte, Joao C, Riel, Nicolas, Rosas, Filipe M, Popov, Anton, Schuler, Christian, and Kaus, Boris JP, “Gibraltar subduction zone is invading the Atlantic,” Geology, 2024.  
  3. Markmann, Thorsten Andreas, Lanari, Pierre, Piccoli, Francesca, Pettke, Thomas, Tamblyn, Renee, Tedeschi, Mahyra, Lueder, Mona, Kunz, Barbara E, Riel, Nicolas, and Laughton, Joshua, “Multi-phase quantitative compositional mapping by LA-ICP-MS: Analytical approach and data reduction protocol implemented in XMapTools,” Chemical Geology, Vol. 646, 2024, p. 121895.  
  4. Dominguez, Hugo, Riel, Nicolas, and Lanari, Pierre, “Modelling chemical advection during magma ascent,” Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, Vol. 2024, 2024, pp. 1-30.  
  5. Schmitt, AK, Sliwinski, J, Caricchi, L, Bachmann, O, Riel, N, Kaus, BJP, de Leon, A Cisneros, Cornet, J, Friedrichs, B, Lovera, O, and others, “Zircon age spectra to quantify magma evolution,” Geosphere, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023, pp. 1006-1031.  
  6. Weller, Owen M, Holland, Tim JB, Soderman, Caroline R, Green, Eleanor CR, Powell, Roger, Beard, Charles D, and Riel, Nicolas, “New thermodynamic models for anhydrous alkaline-silicate magmatic systems,” Journal of Petrology, 2024, egae098.  
  7. Carlos E. Ganade, Nicolas, Riel, Gianreto Manatschal, Lucas R. Tesser, Joerg Hermann, Daniela Rubatto, Roberto F. Weinberg, Pierre Lanari, and Boris J.P. Kaus, “Exhumation of ultra-high pressure (UHP) rocks modulated by rifted margin-subduction feedback: Implications for their preservation in old collisional orogens,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 643, 2024, p. 118893.  
  8. Kaus, Boris JP, Thielmann, Marcel, Aellig, Pascal, de Montserrat, Albert, de Siena, Luca, Frasukiewicz, Jacob, Fuchs, Lukas, Piccolo, Andrea, Ranocha, Hendrik, Riel, Nicolas, and others, “GeophysicalModelGenerator. jl: A Julia package to visualise geoscientific data and create numerical model setups,” Journal of Open Source Software, Vol. 9, No. 103, 2024, p. 6763.  
  9. Forshaw, Jacob B, Dominguez, Hugo, Markmann, Thorsten A, Tamblyn, Renee, Hermann, Jorg, Riel, Nicolas, and Lanari, Pierre, “Major-element geochemistry and Fe3+/$Sigma$Fe of metabasites,” Journal of Petrology, 2024, egae120.  
  10. Green, Eleanor C R, Holland, Tim J B, Powell, Roger, Weller, Owen M, and Riel, Nicolas, “Corrigendum to: Melting of Peridotites through to Granites: a Simple Thermodynamic Model in the System KNCFMASHTOCr, and, a Thermodynamic Model for the Subsolidus Evolution and Melting of Peridotite.,” Journal of Petrology, Vol. 66, No. 1, 01 2025, egae079.  
  11. Schuler, Christian, Kaus, Boris JP, Le Breton, Eline, Riel, Nicolas, and Popov, Anton A, “Mantle dynamics in the mediterranean and plate motion of the Adriatic microplate: Insights from 3D thermomechanical modeling,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2025, e2024GC011996.  
  12. Liu, Jia-Hui, Kaempf, Jonas, Huang, Meiyun, Riel, Nicolas, Guo, Jinghui, Huang, Guangyu, Chen, Lin, Jiao, Shujuan, Mao, Mengxia, Clark, Chris, and others, “Thermal structure of a Paleoproterozoic orogen: A case study from the Wutai–Fuping crustal section,” Journal of Petrology, Vol. 66, No. 5, 2025, egaf043.  
  13. Gomes, A. S., Rosas, F. M., Riel, N., Schellart, W. P., Almeida, J., and Duarte, J. C., “Numerical Geodynamic Modeling of Buoyancy-Driven Tethyan-type Ophiolite Emplacement,” Tectonics, Vol. 44, No. 8, 2025, e2024TC008625.  
  14. Soderman, Caroline R, Weller, Owen M, Beard, Charles D, Riel, Nicolas, Green, Eleanor CR, and Holland, Tim JB, “A mid-crustal tipping point between silica-undersaturated and silica-oversaturated magmas,” Nature Geoscience, 2025, pp. 1-8.  
  15. Duarte, Joao, Riel, Nicolas, Civiero, Chiara, Silva, Sonia, Rosas, Filipe M, Schellart, Wouter P, Almeida, Jaime, Terrinha, Pedro, and Ribeiro, Antonio, “Seismic evidence for oceanic plate delamination offshore Southwest Iberia,” Nature Geoscience, Aug 2025.  

Workshops

  • 2025d - Introduction to MAGEMin, Goldschmidt, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2025c - Introduction to MAGEMin, IAVCEI, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2025b - Introduction to MAGEMin, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2025a - Introduction to MAGEMin, Metamoprhic Study Group, Liverpool, UK.
  • 2024 - Introduction to MAGEMin, Granulite & Granulie conference, Verbania, Italy.

Academic Timeline

  • 2024-now Postdoctoral research associate, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. “Modelling of CHROMium Enrichment in the mantle and the crust (CHROME)”
  • 2023-2024 W2 fixed term professorship, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
  • 2018-2023 Postdoctoral research associate, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. “Melting And Geodynamic Models of Ascent (MAGMA)”
  • 2017-2018 Postdoctoral research associate, Univesity of Bergen, Norway. “COupling Lithosphere defORmation and Stratigraphy (COLORS)”
  • 2014-2016 Postdoctoral research associate, Durham University, UK. “Modelling the Archaean Subduction Environment”
  • 2013-2014 Postdoctoral research associate, Monash University, Australia. “2D and 3D Themodynamical modelling of subduction systems: implications for the Cenozoic evolution of the Andean system”
  • 2009 Visiting Student, CSIRO, Perth, Australia. “Modelling the effect of internal frictional angle on fault development during rifting”
  • 2008-2012 Ph.D, Earth Sciences, University of Grenoble, France. “Thermal anomaly and underplating in a forearc region: insights from the Triassic El Oro massif, Ecuador”
  • 2008: MSc Earth Sciences, University of Grenoble, France. “Pressure-Temperature-time characterisation of a newly discovered eclogitic unit in northern Pakistan”

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Journals and Magazines

  1. Riel, Nicolas, Duarte, Joao C, Almeida, Jaime, Kaus, Boris JP, Rosas, Filipe, Rojas-Agramonte, Yamirka, and Popov, Anton, “Subduction initiation triggered the Caribbean large igneous province,” Nature Communications, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2023, p. 786.  
  2. Theunissen, Thomas, Huismans, Ritske S, Lu, Gang, and Riel Nicolas, “Relative continent/mid-ocean ridge elevation: a reference case for isostasy in geodynamics,” Earth-Science Reviews, 2022, p. 104153.  
  3. Riel, Nicolas, Kaus, Boris JP, Green, ECR, and Berlie, Nicolas, “MAGEMin, an efficient Gibbs energy minimizer: application to igneous systems,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 23, No. 7, 2022, e2022GC010427.  
  4. Almeida, Jaime, Riel N, Rosas, Filipe M, Duarte, Joao C, and Kaus, Boris, “Self-replicating subduction zone initiation by polarity reversal,” Communications Earth & Environment, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2022, p. 55.  
  5. Almeida, J, Riel, N, Rosas, FM, Duarte, JC, and Schellart, WP, “Polarity-reversal subduction zone initiation triggered by buoyant plateau obstruction,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 577, 2022, pp. 117-195.  
  6. Husson, Laurent, Riel, Nicolas, Aribowo, S, Authemayou, Christine, de Gelder, G, Kaus, BJP, Mallard, C, Natawidjaja, DH, Pedoja, Kevin, and Sarr, AC, “Slow geodynamics and fast morphotectonics in the far East Tethys,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2022, e2021GC010167.  
  7. Schwartz, Stephane, Gautheron, Cecile, Ketcham, Richard A, Brunet, Fabrice, Corre, Marianna, Agranier, Arnaud, Pinna-Jamme, Rosella, Haurine, Frederic, Monvoin, Gael, and Riel Nicolas, “Unraveling the exhumation history of high-pressure ophiolites using magnetite (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronometry,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 543, 2020, p. 116359.  
  8. Rummel, Lisa, Kaus, Boris JP, Baumann, Tobias S, White, Richard W, and Riel Nicolas,, “Insights into the compositional evolution of crustal magmatic systems from coupled petrological-geodynamical models,” Journal of Petrology, Vol. 61, No. 2, 2020, egaa029.  
  9. Goussin, Fanny, Riel, Nicolas,, Cordier, Carole, Guillot, Stephane, Boulvais, Philippe, Roperch, Pierrick, Replumaz, Anne, Schulmann, Karel, Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume, Rosas, Filipe, and others, “Carbonated inheritance in the Eastern Tibetan lithospheric mantle: Petrological evidences and geodynamic implications,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2020, e2019GC008495.  
  10. Riel, Nicolas, Bouilhol, Pierre, van Hunen, Jeroen, Cornet, Julien, Magni, Valentina, Grigorova, Vili, and Velic, Mirko, “Interaction between mantle-derived magma and lower arc crust: quantitative reactive melt flow modelling using STyx,” Geological Society, London, Special Publications, Vol. 478, No. 1, 2019, pp. 65-87.  
  11. Loury, Chloe, Rolland, Yann, Lanari, Pierre, Guillot, Stephane, Bosch, Delphine, Ganino, Clement, Jourdon, Anthony, Petit, Carole, Gallet, Sylvain, Monie, Patrick, and Riel, Nicolas, “Permian charnockites in the Pobeda area: implications for Tarim mantle plume activity and HT metamorphism in the South Tien Shan range,” Lithos, Vol. 304, 2018, pp. 135-154.  
  12. Riel, Nicolas, Jaillard, Etienne, Martelat, Jean-Emmanuel, Guillot, Stephane, and Braun, Jean, “Permian-Triassic Tethyan realm reorganization: Implications for the outward Pangea margin,” Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Vol. 81, 2018, pp. 78-86.  
  13. Riel, Nicolas, Capitanio, Fabio A, and Velic, Mirko, “Numerical modeling of stress and topography coupling during subduction: Inferences on global vs. regional observables interpretation,” Tectonophysics, Vol. 746, 2018, pp. 239-250.  
  14. Riel, Nicolas, Mercier, Jonathan, and Weinberg, Roberto, “Convection in a partially molten metasedimentary crust? Insights from the El Oro complex (Ecuador),” Geology, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2016, pp. 31-34.  
  15. Lamarque, Gaelle, Bascou, Jerome, Maurice, Claire, Cottin, Jean-Yves, Riel, Nicolas, and Menot, Rene-Pierre, “Microstructures, deformation mechanisms and seismic properties of a Palaeoproterozoic shear zone: The Mertz shear zone, East-Antarctica,” Tectonophysics, Vol. 680, 2016, pp. 174-191.  
  16. Riel, Nicolas and Lanari, Pierre, “Techniques, methodes et outils pour la quantification du metamorphisme,” Geochronique, Vol. 136, 2015, pp. 53-60.  
  17. Capitanio, FA, Replumaz, A, and Riel, N, “Reconciling subduction dynamics during Tethys closure with large-scale Asian tectonics: Insights from numerical modeling,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2015, pp. 962-982.  
  18. Riel, Nicolas, Martelat, Jean-Emmanuel, Guillot, Stephane, Jaillard, Etienne, Monie, Patrick, Yuquilema, Jonatan, Duclaux, Guillaume, and Mercier, Jonathan, “Forearc tectonothermal evolution of the El Oro metamorphic province (Ecuador) during the Mesozoic,” Tectonics, Vol. 33, No. 10, 2014, pp. 1989-2012.  
  19. Riel, Nicolas, Guillot, S, Jaillard, E, Martelat, JE, Paquette, JL, Schwartz, S, Goncalvez, P, Duclaux, G, Thiebaud, N, Lanari, P, and others, “Implications for high-temperature metamorphism in a forearc zone: a metamorphic and geochronogical study of the Triassic El Oro metamorphic complex in Ecuador,” Lithos, Vol. 156, 2013, pp. 41-68.  
  20. Lanari, Pierre, Riel, Nicolas, Guillot, Stephane, Vidal, Olivier, Schwartz, Stephane, Pecher, Arnaud, and Hattori, Keiko H, “Deciphering high-pressure metamorphism in collisional context using microprobe mapping methods: Application to the Stak eclogitic massif (northwest Himalaya),” Geology, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2013, pp. 111-114.  
  21. Lanari, Pierre, Guillot, Stephane, Schwartz, Stephane, Vidal, Olivier, Tricart, Pierre, Riel, Nicolas, and Beyssac, Olivier, “Diachronous evolution of the alpine continental subduction wedge: evidence from P–T estimates in the Brianconnais Zone houillere (France–Western Alps),” Journal of Geodynamics, Vol. 56, 2012, pp. 39-54.  
  22. Rosas, Filipe M, Duarte, Joao C, Almeida, Pedro, Schellart, WP, Riel, N, and Terrinha, Pedro, “Analogue modelling of thrust systems: Passive vs. active hanging wall strain accommodation and sharp vs. smooth fault-ramp geometries,” Journal of Structural Geology, Vol. 99, 2017, pp. 45-69.  
  23. Salerno, V Morena, Capitanio, Fabio A, Farrington, Rebecca J, and Riel, Nicolas, “The role of long-term rifting history on modes of continental lithosphere extension,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Vol. 121, No. 12, 2016, pp. 8917-8940.  
  24. Duarte, Joao C, Riel, Nicolas, Rosas, Filipe M, Popov, Anton, Schuler, Christian, and Kaus, Boris JP, “Gibraltar subduction zone is invading the Atlantic,” Geology, 2024.  
  25. Markmann, Thorsten Andreas, Lanari, Pierre, Piccoli, Francesca, Pettke, Thomas, Tamblyn, Renee, Tedeschi, Mahyra, Lueder, Mona, Kunz, Barbara E, Riel, Nicolas, and Laughton, Joshua, “Multi-phase quantitative compositional mapping by LA-ICP-MS: Analytical approach and data reduction protocol implemented in XMapTools,” Chemical Geology, Vol. 646, 2024, p. 121895.  
  26. Dominguez, Hugo, Riel, Nicolas, and Lanari, Pierre, “Modelling chemical advection during magma ascent,” Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, Vol. 2024, 2024, pp. 1-30.  
  27. Schmitt, AK, Sliwinski, J, Caricchi, L, Bachmann, O, Riel, N, Kaus, BJP, de Leon, A Cisneros, Cornet, J, Friedrichs, B, Lovera, O, and others, “Zircon age spectra to quantify magma evolution,” Geosphere, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023, pp. 1006-1031.  
  28. Weller, Owen M, Holland, Tim JB, Soderman, Caroline R, Green, Eleanor CR, Powell, Roger, Beard, Charles D, and Riel, Nicolas, “New thermodynamic models for anhydrous alkaline-silicate magmatic systems,” Journal of Petrology, 2024, egae098.  
  29. Carlos E. Ganade, Nicolas, Riel, Gianreto Manatschal, Lucas R. Tesser, Joerg Hermann, Daniela Rubatto, Roberto F. Weinberg, Pierre Lanari, and Boris J.P. Kaus, “Exhumation of ultra-high pressure (UHP) rocks modulated by rifted margin-subduction feedback: Implications for their preservation in old collisional orogens,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 643, 2024, p. 118893.  
  30. Kaus, Boris JP, Thielmann, Marcel, Aellig, Pascal, de Montserrat, Albert, de Siena, Luca, Frasukiewicz, Jacob, Fuchs, Lukas, Piccolo, Andrea, Ranocha, Hendrik, Riel, Nicolas, and others, “GeophysicalModelGenerator. jl: A Julia package to visualise geoscientific data and create numerical model setups,” Journal of Open Source Software, Vol. 9, No. 103, 2024, p. 6763.  
  31. Forshaw, Jacob B, Dominguez, Hugo, Markmann, Thorsten A, Tamblyn, Renee, Hermann, Jorg, Riel, Nicolas, and Lanari, Pierre, “Major-element geochemistry and Fe3+/$Sigma$Fe of metabasites,” Journal of Petrology, 2024, egae120.  
  32. Green, Eleanor C R, Holland, Tim J B, Powell, Roger, Weller, Owen M, and Riel, Nicolas, “Corrigendum to: Melting of Peridotites through to Granites: a Simple Thermodynamic Model in the System KNCFMASHTOCr, and, a Thermodynamic Model for the Subsolidus Evolution and Melting of Peridotite.,” Journal of Petrology, Vol. 66, No. 1, 01 2025, egae079.  
  33. Schuler, Christian, Kaus, Boris JP, Le Breton, Eline, Riel, Nicolas, and Popov, Anton A, “Mantle dynamics in the mediterranean and plate motion of the Adriatic microplate: Insights from 3D thermomechanical modeling,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2025, e2024GC011996.  
  34. Liu, Jia-Hui, Kaempf, Jonas, Huang, Meiyun, Riel, Nicolas, Guo, Jinghui, Huang, Guangyu, Chen, Lin, Jiao, Shujuan, Mao, Mengxia, Clark, Chris, and others, “Thermal structure of a Paleoproterozoic orogen: A case study from the Wutai–Fuping crustal section,” Journal of Petrology, Vol. 66, No. 5, 2025, egaf043.  
  35. Gomes, A. S., Rosas, F. M., Riel, N., Schellart, W. P., Almeida, J., and Duarte, J. C., “Numerical Geodynamic Modeling of Buoyancy-Driven Tethyan-type Ophiolite Emplacement,” Tectonics, Vol. 44, No. 8, 2025, e2024TC008625.  
  36. Soderman, Caroline R, Weller, Owen M, Beard, Charles D, Riel, Nicolas, Green, Eleanor CR, and Holland, Tim JB, “A mid-crustal tipping point between silica-undersaturated and silica-oversaturated magmas,” Nature Geoscience, 2025, pp. 1-8.  
  37. Duarte, Joao, Riel, Nicolas, Civiero, Chiara, Silva, Sonia, Rosas, Filipe M, Schellart, Wouter P, Almeida, Jaime, Terrinha, Pedro, and Ribeiro, Antonio, “Seismic evidence for oceanic plate delamination offshore Southwest Iberia,” Nature Geoscience, Aug 2025.  

2012

  1. Lanari, Pierre, Guillot, Stephane, Schwartz, Stephane, Vidal, Olivier, Tricart, Pierre, Riel, Nicolas, and Beyssac, Olivier, “Diachronous evolution of the alpine continental subduction wedge: evidence from P–T estimates in the Brianconnais Zone houillere (France–Western Alps),” Journal of Geodynamics, Vol. 56, 2012, pp. 39-54.  

2013

  1. Riel, Nicolas, Guillot, S, Jaillard, E, Martelat, JE, Paquette, JL, Schwartz, S, Goncalvez, P, Duclaux, G, Thiebaud, N, Lanari, P, and others, “Implications for high-temperature metamorphism in a forearc zone: a metamorphic and geochronogical study of the Triassic El Oro metamorphic complex in Ecuador,” Lithos, Vol. 156, 2013, pp. 41-68.  
  2. Lanari, Pierre, Riel, Nicolas, Guillot, Stephane, Vidal, Olivier, Schwartz, Stephane, Pecher, Arnaud, and Hattori, Keiko H, “Deciphering high-pressure metamorphism in collisional context using microprobe mapping methods: Application to the Stak eclogitic massif (northwest Himalaya),” Geology, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2013, pp. 111-114.  

2014

  1. Riel, Nicolas, Martelat, Jean-Emmanuel, Guillot, Stephane, Jaillard, Etienne, Monie, Patrick, Yuquilema, Jonatan, Duclaux, Guillaume, and Mercier, Jonathan, “Forearc tectonothermal evolution of the El Oro metamorphic province (Ecuador) during the Mesozoic,” Tectonics, Vol. 33, No. 10, 2014, pp. 1989-2012.  

2015

  1. Riel, Nicolas and Lanari, Pierre, “Techniques, methodes et outils pour la quantification du metamorphisme,” Geochronique, Vol. 136, 2015, pp. 53-60.  
  2. Capitanio, FA, Replumaz, A, and Riel, N, “Reconciling subduction dynamics during Tethys closure with large-scale Asian tectonics: Insights from numerical modeling,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2015, pp. 962-982.  

2016

  1. Riel, Nicolas, Mercier, Jonathan, and Weinberg, Roberto, “Convection in a partially molten metasedimentary crust? Insights from the El Oro complex (Ecuador),” Geology, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2016, pp. 31-34.  
  2. Lamarque, Gaelle, Bascou, Jerome, Maurice, Claire, Cottin, Jean-Yves, Riel, Nicolas, and Menot, Rene-Pierre, “Microstructures, deformation mechanisms and seismic properties of a Palaeoproterozoic shear zone: The Mertz shear zone, East-Antarctica,” Tectonophysics, Vol. 680, 2016, pp. 174-191.  
  3. Salerno, V Morena, Capitanio, Fabio A, Farrington, Rebecca J, and Riel, Nicolas, “The role of long-term rifting history on modes of continental lithosphere extension,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Vol. 121, No. 12, 2016, pp. 8917-8940.  

2017

  1. Rosas, Filipe M, Duarte, Joao C, Almeida, Pedro, Schellart, WP, Riel, N, and Terrinha, Pedro, “Analogue modelling of thrust systems: Passive vs. active hanging wall strain accommodation and sharp vs. smooth fault-ramp geometries,” Journal of Structural Geology, Vol. 99, 2017, pp. 45-69.  

2018

  1. Loury, Chloe, Rolland, Yann, Lanari, Pierre, Guillot, Stephane, Bosch, Delphine, Ganino, Clement, Jourdon, Anthony, Petit, Carole, Gallet, Sylvain, Monie, Patrick, and Riel, Nicolas, “Permian charnockites in the Pobeda area: implications for Tarim mantle plume activity and HT metamorphism in the South Tien Shan range,” Lithos, Vol. 304, 2018, pp. 135-154.  
  2. Riel, Nicolas, Jaillard, Etienne, Martelat, Jean-Emmanuel, Guillot, Stephane, and Braun, Jean, “Permian-Triassic Tethyan realm reorganization: Implications for the outward Pangea margin,” Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Vol. 81, 2018, pp. 78-86.  
  3. Riel, Nicolas, Capitanio, Fabio A, and Velic, Mirko, “Numerical modeling of stress and topography coupling during subduction: Inferences on global vs. regional observables interpretation,” Tectonophysics, Vol. 746, 2018, pp. 239-250.  

2019

  1. Riel, Nicolas, Bouilhol, Pierre, van Hunen, Jeroen, Cornet, Julien, Magni, Valentina, Grigorova, Vili, and Velic, Mirko, “Interaction between mantle-derived magma and lower arc crust: quantitative reactive melt flow modelling using STyx,” Geological Society, London, Special Publications, Vol. 478, No. 1, 2019, pp. 65-87.  

2020

  1. Schwartz, Stephane, Gautheron, Cecile, Ketcham, Richard A, Brunet, Fabrice, Corre, Marianna, Agranier, Arnaud, Pinna-Jamme, Rosella, Haurine, Frederic, Monvoin, Gael, and Riel Nicolas, “Unraveling the exhumation history of high-pressure ophiolites using magnetite (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronometry,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 543, 2020, p. 116359.  
  2. Rummel, Lisa, Kaus, Boris JP, Baumann, Tobias S, White, Richard W, and Riel Nicolas,, “Insights into the compositional evolution of crustal magmatic systems from coupled petrological-geodynamical models,” Journal of Petrology, Vol. 61, No. 2, 2020, egaa029.  
  3. Goussin, Fanny, Riel, Nicolas,, Cordier, Carole, Guillot, Stephane, Boulvais, Philippe, Roperch, Pierrick, Replumaz, Anne, Schulmann, Karel, Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume, Rosas, Filipe, and others, “Carbonated inheritance in the Eastern Tibetan lithospheric mantle: Petrological evidences and geodynamic implications,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2020, e2019GC008495.  

2022

  1. Theunissen, Thomas, Huismans, Ritske S, Lu, Gang, and Riel Nicolas, “Relative continent/mid-ocean ridge elevation: a reference case for isostasy in geodynamics,” Earth-Science Reviews, 2022, p. 104153.  
  2. Riel, Nicolas, Kaus, Boris JP, Green, ECR, and Berlie, Nicolas, “MAGEMin, an efficient Gibbs energy minimizer: application to igneous systems,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 23, No. 7, 2022, e2022GC010427.  
  3. Almeida, Jaime, Riel N, Rosas, Filipe M, Duarte, Joao C, and Kaus, Boris, “Self-replicating subduction zone initiation by polarity reversal,” Communications Earth & Environment, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2022, p. 55.  
  4. Almeida, J, Riel, N, Rosas, FM, Duarte, JC, and Schellart, WP, “Polarity-reversal subduction zone initiation triggered by buoyant plateau obstruction,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 577, 2022, pp. 117-195.  
  5. Husson, Laurent, Riel, Nicolas, Aribowo, S, Authemayou, Christine, de Gelder, G, Kaus, BJP, Mallard, C, Natawidjaja, DH, Pedoja, Kevin, and Sarr, AC, “Slow geodynamics and fast morphotectonics in the far East Tethys,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2022, e2021GC010167.  

2023

  1. Riel, Nicolas, Duarte, Joao C, Almeida, Jaime, Kaus, Boris JP, Rosas, Filipe, Rojas-Agramonte, Yamirka, and Popov, Anton, “Subduction initiation triggered the Caribbean large igneous province,” Nature Communications, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2023, p. 786.  
  2. Schmitt, AK, Sliwinski, J, Caricchi, L, Bachmann, O, Riel, N, Kaus, BJP, de Leon, A Cisneros, Cornet, J, Friedrichs, B, Lovera, O, and others, “Zircon age spectra to quantify magma evolution,” Geosphere, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023, pp. 1006-1031.  

2024

  1. Duarte, Joao C, Riel, Nicolas, Rosas, Filipe M, Popov, Anton, Schuler, Christian, and Kaus, Boris JP, “Gibraltar subduction zone is invading the Atlantic,” Geology, 2024.  
  2. Markmann, Thorsten Andreas, Lanari, Pierre, Piccoli, Francesca, Pettke, Thomas, Tamblyn, Renee, Tedeschi, Mahyra, Lueder, Mona, Kunz, Barbara E, Riel, Nicolas, and Laughton, Joshua, “Multi-phase quantitative compositional mapping by LA-ICP-MS: Analytical approach and data reduction protocol implemented in XMapTools,” Chemical Geology, Vol. 646, 2024, p. 121895.  
  3. Dominguez, Hugo, Riel, Nicolas, and Lanari, Pierre, “Modelling chemical advection during magma ascent,” Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, Vol. 2024, 2024, pp. 1-30.  
  4. Weller, Owen M, Holland, Tim JB, Soderman, Caroline R, Green, Eleanor CR, Powell, Roger, Beard, Charles D, and Riel, Nicolas, “New thermodynamic models for anhydrous alkaline-silicate magmatic systems,” Journal of Petrology, 2024, egae098.  
  5. Carlos E. Ganade, Nicolas, Riel, Gianreto Manatschal, Lucas R. Tesser, Joerg Hermann, Daniela Rubatto, Roberto F. Weinberg, Pierre Lanari, and Boris J.P. Kaus, “Exhumation of ultra-high pressure (UHP) rocks modulated by rifted margin-subduction feedback: Implications for their preservation in old collisional orogens,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 643, 2024, p. 118893.  
  6. Kaus, Boris JP, Thielmann, Marcel, Aellig, Pascal, de Montserrat, Albert, de Siena, Luca, Frasukiewicz, Jacob, Fuchs, Lukas, Piccolo, Andrea, Ranocha, Hendrik, Riel, Nicolas, and others, “GeophysicalModelGenerator. jl: A Julia package to visualise geoscientific data and create numerical model setups,” Journal of Open Source Software, Vol. 9, No. 103, 2024, p. 6763.  
  7. Forshaw, Jacob B, Dominguez, Hugo, Markmann, Thorsten A, Tamblyn, Renee, Hermann, Jorg, Riel, Nicolas, and Lanari, Pierre, “Major-element geochemistry and Fe3+/$Sigma$Fe of metabasites,” Journal of Petrology, 2024, egae120.  

2025

  1. Green, Eleanor C R, Holland, Tim J B, Powell, Roger, Weller, Owen M, and Riel, Nicolas, “Corrigendum to: Melting of Peridotites through to Granites: a Simple Thermodynamic Model in the System KNCFMASHTOCr, and, a Thermodynamic Model for the Subsolidus Evolution and Melting of Peridotite.,” Journal of Petrology, Vol. 66, No. 1, 01 2025, egae079.  
  2. Schuler, Christian, Kaus, Boris JP, Le Breton, Eline, Riel, Nicolas, and Popov, Anton A, “Mantle dynamics in the mediterranean and plate motion of the Adriatic microplate: Insights from 3D thermomechanical modeling,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2025, e2024GC011996.  
  3. Liu, Jia-Hui, Kaempf, Jonas, Huang, Meiyun, Riel, Nicolas, Guo, Jinghui, Huang, Guangyu, Chen, Lin, Jiao, Shujuan, Mao, Mengxia, Clark, Chris, and others, “Thermal structure of a Paleoproterozoic orogen: A case study from the Wutai–Fuping crustal section,” Journal of Petrology, Vol. 66, No. 5, 2025, egaf043.  
  4. Gomes, A. S., Rosas, F. M., Riel, N., Schellart, W. P., Almeida, J., and Duarte, J. C., “Numerical Geodynamic Modeling of Buoyancy-Driven Tethyan-type Ophiolite Emplacement,” Tectonics, Vol. 44, No. 8, 2025, e2024TC008625.  
  5. Soderman, Caroline R, Weller, Owen M, Beard, Charles D, Riel, Nicolas, Green, Eleanor CR, and Holland, Tim JB, “A mid-crustal tipping point between silica-undersaturated and silica-oversaturated magmas,” Nature Geoscience, 2025, pp. 1-8.  
  6. Duarte, Joao, Riel, Nicolas, Civiero, Chiara, Silva, Sonia, Rosas, Filipe M, Schellart, Wouter P, Almeida, Jaime, Terrinha, Pedro, and Ribeiro, Antonio, “Seismic evidence for oceanic plate delamination offshore Southwest Iberia,” Nature Geoscience, Aug 2025.  

Recent Publications

  1. Riel, Nicolas, Duarte, Joao C, Almeida, Jaime, Kaus, Boris JP, Rosas, Filipe, Rojas-Agramonte, Yamirka, and Popov, Anton, “Subduction initiation triggered the Caribbean large igneous province,” Nature Communications, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2023, p. 786.  
  2. Duarte, Joao C, Riel, Nicolas, Rosas, Filipe M, Popov, Anton, Schuler, Christian, and Kaus, Boris JP, “Gibraltar subduction zone is invading the Atlantic,” Geology, 2024.  
  3. Markmann, Thorsten Andreas, Lanari, Pierre, Piccoli, Francesca, Pettke, Thomas, Tamblyn, Renee, Tedeschi, Mahyra, Lueder, Mona, Kunz, Barbara E, Riel, Nicolas, and Laughton, Joshua, “Multi-phase quantitative compositional mapping by LA-ICP-MS: Analytical approach and data reduction protocol implemented in XMapTools,” Chemical Geology, Vol. 646, 2024, p. 121895.  
  4. Dominguez, Hugo, Riel, Nicolas, and Lanari, Pierre, “Modelling chemical advection during magma ascent,” Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, Vol. 2024, 2024, pp. 1-30.  
  5. Schmitt, AK, Sliwinski, J, Caricchi, L, Bachmann, O, Riel, N, Kaus, BJP, de Leon, A Cisneros, Cornet, J, Friedrichs, B, Lovera, O, and others, “Zircon age spectra to quantify magma evolution,” Geosphere, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023, pp. 1006-1031.  
  6. Weller, Owen M, Holland, Tim JB, Soderman, Caroline R, Green, Eleanor CR, Powell, Roger, Beard, Charles D, and Riel, Nicolas, “New thermodynamic models for anhydrous alkaline-silicate magmatic systems,” Journal of Petrology, 2024, egae098.  
  7. Carlos E. Ganade, Nicolas, Riel, Gianreto Manatschal, Lucas R. Tesser, Joerg Hermann, Daniela Rubatto, Roberto F. Weinberg, Pierre Lanari, and Boris J.P. Kaus, “Exhumation of ultra-high pressure (UHP) rocks modulated by rifted margin-subduction feedback: Implications for their preservation in old collisional orogens,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 643, 2024, p. 118893.  
  8. Kaus, Boris JP, Thielmann, Marcel, Aellig, Pascal, de Montserrat, Albert, de Siena, Luca, Frasukiewicz, Jacob, Fuchs, Lukas, Piccolo, Andrea, Ranocha, Hendrik, Riel, Nicolas, and others, “GeophysicalModelGenerator. jl: A Julia package to visualise geoscientific data and create numerical model setups,” Journal of Open Source Software, Vol. 9, No. 103, 2024, p. 6763.  
  9. Forshaw, Jacob B, Dominguez, Hugo, Markmann, Thorsten A, Tamblyn, Renee, Hermann, Jorg, Riel, Nicolas, and Lanari, Pierre, “Major-element geochemistry and Fe3+/$Sigma$Fe of metabasites,” Journal of Petrology, 2024, egae120.  
  10. Green, Eleanor C R, Holland, Tim J B, Powell, Roger, Weller, Owen M, and Riel, Nicolas, “Corrigendum to: Melting of Peridotites through to Granites: a Simple Thermodynamic Model in the System KNCFMASHTOCr, and, a Thermodynamic Model for the Subsolidus Evolution and Melting of Peridotite.,” Journal of Petrology, Vol. 66, No. 1, 01 2025, egae079.  
  11. Schuler, Christian, Kaus, Boris JP, Le Breton, Eline, Riel, Nicolas, and Popov, Anton A, “Mantle dynamics in the mediterranean and plate motion of the Adriatic microplate: Insights from 3D thermomechanical modeling,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2025, e2024GC011996.  
  12. Liu, Jia-Hui, Kaempf, Jonas, Huang, Meiyun, Riel, Nicolas, Guo, Jinghui, Huang, Guangyu, Chen, Lin, Jiao, Shujuan, Mao, Mengxia, Clark, Chris, and others, “Thermal structure of a Paleoproterozoic orogen: A case study from the Wutai–Fuping crustal section,” Journal of Petrology, Vol. 66, No. 5, 2025, egaf043.  
  13. Gomes, A. S., Rosas, F. M., Riel, N., Schellart, W. P., Almeida, J., and Duarte, J. C., “Numerical Geodynamic Modeling of Buoyancy-Driven Tethyan-type Ophiolite Emplacement,” Tectonics, Vol. 44, No. 8, 2025, e2024TC008625.  
  14. Soderman, Caroline R, Weller, Owen M, Beard, Charles D, Riel, Nicolas, Green, Eleanor CR, and Holland, Tim JB, “A mid-crustal tipping point between silica-undersaturated and silica-oversaturated magmas,” Nature Geoscience, 2025, pp. 1-8.  
  15. Duarte, Joao, Riel, Nicolas, Civiero, Chiara, Silva, Sonia, Rosas, Filipe M, Schellart, Wouter P, Almeida, Jaime, Terrinha, Pedro, and Ribeiro, Antonio, “Seismic evidence for oceanic plate delamination offshore Southwest Iberia,” Nature Geoscience, Aug 2025.  

teaching

CS 432/532 - Web Science

  Catalog Description: Provides an overview of the World Wide Web and associated decentralized information structures, focusing mainly on the computing aspects of the Web: how it works, how it is used, and how it can be analyzed. Students will examine a number of topics including: web architecture, web characterization and analysis, web archiving, Web 2.0, social networks, collective intelligence, search engines, web mining, information diffusion on the web, and the Semantic Web. Prerequisites: A grade of C or better in CS 361 and CS 330. Read more

CS 625 - Data Visualization

  Catalog Description: This course covers the theory and application of data visualization. This includes issues in data cleaning to prepare data for visualization, theory behind mapping data to appropriate visual representations, introduction to visual analytics, and tools used for data analysis and visualization. Modern visualization software and tools will be used to analyze and visualize real-world datasets to reinforce the concepts covered in the course. Read more

CS 725/825 - Information Visualization & Data Analytics

  Catalog Description: This course covers the theory and application of information visualization and of visual analytics, the science of combining interactive visual interfaces and information visualization techniques with automatic algorithms to support analytical reasoning through human-computer interaction. Research on visual perception, cognition, interactive visual interfaces, and visual analytics will be covered. Practical techniques for the display of complex multivariate data will be addressed. Course projects will require the development of interactive web-based interfaces to analyze and visualize real-world datasets. Prerequisite: CS 625 (Data Visualization) Read more

CS 800 - Research Methods

  Catalog Description: Introduction to research methods in computer science. Topics include academic publishing, academic writing, literature reviews, responsible conduct of research, and presenting research results. Research faculty will present overviews of their research and how research is conducted in their labs. Read more

CS 725/825 - Information Visualization & Data Analytics

  Catalog Description: This course covers the theory and application of information visualization and of visual analytics, the science of combining interactive visual interfaces and information visualization techniques with automatic algorithms to support analytical reasoning through human-computer interaction. Research on visual perception, cognition, interactive visual interfaces, and visual analytics will be covered. Practical techniques for the display of complex multivariate data will be addressed. Course projects will require the development of interactive web-based interfaces to analyze and visualize real-world datasets. Prerequisite: CS 625 (Data Visualization) Read more

CS 625 - Data Visualization

  Catalog Description: This course covers the theory and application of data visualization. This includes issues in data cleaning to prepare data for visualization, theory behind mapping data to appropriate visual representations, introduction to visual analytics, and tools used for data analysis and visualization. Modern visualization software and tools will be used to analyze and visualize real-world datasets to reinforce the concepts covered in the course. Read more

CS 725/825 - Information Visualization & Data Analytics

Catalog Description: This course covers the theory and application of information visualization and of visual analytics, the science of combining interactive visual interfaces and information visualization techniques with automatic algorithms to support analytical reasoning through human-computer interaction. Research on visual perception, cognition, interactive visual interfaces, and visual analytics will be covered. Practical techniques for the display of complex multivariate data will be addressed. Course projects will require the development of interactive web-based interfaces to analyze and visualize real-world datasets. Prerequisite: CS 625 (Data Visualization) Read more

CS 625 - Data Visualization

  Catalog Description: This course covers the theory and application of data visualization. This includes issues in data cleaning to prepare data for visualization, theory behind mapping data to appropriate visual representations, introduction to visual analytics, and tools used for data analysis and visualization. Modern visualization software and tools will be used to analyze and visualize real-world datasets to reinforce the concepts covered in the course. Read more

CS 725/825 - Information Visualization

Catalog Description: This course covers the theory and application of information visualization and of visual analytics, the science of combining interactive visual interfaces and information visualization techniques with automatic algorithms to support analytical reasoning through human-computer interaction. Research on visual perception, cognition, interactive visual interfaces, and visual analytics will be covered. Practical techniques for the display of complex multivariate data will be addressed. Course projects will require the development of interactive web-based interfaces to analyze and visualize real-world datasets. Prerequisite: CS 625 (Data Visualization) Read more

CS 625 - Data Visualization

  Catalog Description: This course covers the theory and application of data visualization. This includes issues in data cleaning to prepare data for visualization, theory behind mapping data to appropriate visual representations, introduction to visual analytics, and tools used for data analysis and visualization. Modern visualization software and tools will be used to analyze and visualize real-world datasets to reinforce the concepts covered in the course. Read more