Vice-Président-Recherche de l'Ens de Lyon.
--Convection dans l'intérieur des planètes
--Milieux biphasés
--Tomographie sismique
--Composition et stucture du manteau
Cinq publications (pour une liste complète, ainsi que les pdf, aller sur https://perso.ens-lyon.fr/yanick.ricard/)
A geodynamic model of mantle density heterogeneity, Y Ricard, M Richards, C Lithgow-Bertelloni, Y Lestuff, Journal of Geophysical Research 98 (B12), 21,895-21,909, 1993.
3SMAC: an a priori tomographic model of the upper mantle based on geophysical modeling, HC Nataf, Y Ricard, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 95 (1-2), 101-122, 1996.
A two‐phase model for compaction and damage: 1. General theory, D Bercovici, Y Ricard, G Schubert, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 106 (B5), 8887-8906, 2001.
Physics of mantle convection, Y Ricard, Treatise on Geophysics, G. Schubert, D. Bercovici, Eds.(Elsevier, 2007), 31-88, 2007.
Seismic observations of large-scale deformation at the bottom of fast-moving plates, E Debayle, Y Ricard, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 376, 165-177, 2020.