Martin Kihoulou

Address:  Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Geophysics
      V Holesovickach 2, 182 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic

E-mail:   martin.kihoulou@mff.cuni.cz

ORCID:  0000-0003-4935-4400

Scopus:  57221641389

Phone:   (+420) 95155 2533

Education

• since 2021  Ph.D. study at Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
            and Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences, Nantes Université, Nantes, France.


• 2019 – 2021  Master's study at Charles University, Faculty of science, Prague, Czech Republic (Geophysics).
                          Impact crater relaxation throughout the Solar System, supervisor Klára Kalousová (PDF)


• 2015 – 2021  Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory, Prague, Czech Republic (Flute).
                          Flute from the perspective of wave equaion (Highlights)


• 2015 – 2019  Bachelor's study at Charles University, Faculty of science, Prague, Czech Republic (Physics).
                          Viscoelastic deformation of ice bodies in the Solar System, supervisor Klára Kalousová (PDF in Czech)

Participation in projects

• 2023 – 2024  Numerical modeling of subduction on icy moon Europa (Grant Agency of Charles University, project No. 26624, principal investigator)


• 2021 – 2022  Presence of subsurface ocean on a dwarf planet Pluto (Grant Agency of Charles University, project No. 355521, principal investigator)

Publications in impacted journals

1. Kihoulou, M., Choblet, G., Tobie, G., Kalousová, K. and Čadek, O. (2025). Subduction-like process in Europa’s ice shell triggered by enhanced eccentricity periods.
   Science Advances 11, eadq8719. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq8719


2. Patočka, V. and Kihoulou, M. (2023). Dynamic reorientation of tidally locked bodies: application to Pluto. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 617(1), 118270.
   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118270


3. Kihoulou, M., Čadek, O., Kvorka, J., Kalousová, K., Choblet, G. and Tobie, G. (2023). Topographic response to ocean heat flux anomaly on the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Icarus 391, 115337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115337


4. Kihoulou, M., Kalousová, K. and Souček, O. (2022). Evolution of Pluto's impact-deformed ice shell below Sputnik Planitia basin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 127, e2022JE007221. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JE007221

Invited seminars

1. Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado. August 11, 2022 (Evolution of Pluto's impact-deformed ice shell below Sputnik Planitia basin)


2. New Horizons Science Team meeting, Wallace, Idaho. September 14, 2022 (Evolution of Pluto's impact-deformed ice shell below Sputnik Planitia basin)

Conference and workshop presentations

• 12/2024 Kihoulou, M., Cadek, O., Choblet, G., Tobie, G., Kalousova, K.: Subduction-like process in Europa’s ice shell triggered by enhanced eccentricity periods, AGU 2024, 1617959


• 09/2024 Kihoulou, M., Cadek, O., Choblet, G., Tobie, G., Kalousova, K.: Eccentricity variations trigger “subduction” in Europa’s ice shell, EPSC2024-311


• 10/2023 Kihoulou, M., Cadek, O., Choblet, G., Tobie, G., Kalousova, K.: Numerical modeling of compressional tectonics on Europa, Workshop on the Origins and Habitability of the Galilean Moons, Marseille, France


• 10/2023 Kihoulou, M., Cadek, O., Choblet, G., Tobie, G., Kalousova, K.: Numerical modeling of subduction on Europa, DPS-EPSC 2023, Abstract No. 210.01


• 03/2023 Patočka, V. and Kihoulou, M.: Dynamic reorientation of tidally locked bodies: application to Pluto, EGU 2023


• 09/2022 Kihoulou, M., Cadek, O., Kalousova, K., Choblet, G., Tobie, G.: Effect of ice-water phase change on the material transport between ice shell and subsurface ocean on icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, EPSC 2022-967


• 03/2022 Kihoulou, M., Patocka, V.: Sputnik Planitia Basin as a Trigger for Melting and Reorientation of Pluto’s Ice Shell, LPSC 2022, Abstract No. 1837
  https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2022/pdf/1837.pdf


• 12/2021 Kihoulou, M., Cadek, O., Kalousova, K., Choblet, G., Tobie, G.: Topography and Tectonic Stresses Induced by Heat Flux from Titan's Ocean, AGU 2021 P43B-01


• 09/2021 Kihoulou, M., Cadek, O., Kalousova, K., Choblet, G., Tobie, G.: Effect of ocean heat flux on Titan's topography and tectonic stresses, EPSC2020-155,
  https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2021-155


• 09/2021 Kihoulou, M., Kalousova, K., Soucek, O., Cadek, O.: Viscous relaxation of Pluto's clathrate- insulated ice shell below Sputnik Planitia, EPSC2021-180,
  https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2021-180


• 09/2020 Kihoulou, M., Kalousova, K., Soucek, O., Cadek, O.: Viscous relaxation of Pluto's ice shell below Sputnik Planitia, EPSC2020-91,
  https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2020-91