Positions Held:
August 2007 – present: Member of Institut universitaire de France (“junior member”).
January 2007 – present: Director of the Laboratory of Modeling and Imaging in Geosciences, Pau, France, CNRS UMR 5212.
January 2005 – December 2006: Deputy Director of the Laboratory of Modeling and Imaging in Geosciences, Pau, France, CNRS UMR 5212.
September 2004 – present: Professor of Geophysics, University of Pau, France.
October 2002 – August 2004: Visiting scientist, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (CNRS UMR 5562), Toulouse, France.
December 2003 – August 2004: Senior Researcher, University of Pau, France.
June 2000 – November 2003: Senior Research Fellow, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, USA.
September 1999 – June 2000: Research Associate,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, USA.
June 1999 – September 1999: Visitor, University of Mexico
(UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.
September 1998 –
May 1999: Visitor, Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology, USA.
December 1997 –
August 1999: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences, Harvard University, USA.
December
1993 – June 1997: Ph.D. student, Institut de Physique du Globe de
Paris, France.
Honors and awards:
Membre « junior » de l’Institut universitaire de France, 2007 – 2011
Lauréat du Prix BULL Joseph Fourier 2009: 3ème.
Titulaire de la Prime d'Encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche (PEDR) / Prime d'Excellence Scientifique (PES) depuis mon recrutement début 2005.
Finaliste du Gordon Bell SuperComputing award 2008 (prix international d’informatique et de calcul parallèle de la Conférence SuperComputing’2008, Austin, Texas, Novembre 2008).
Sélectionné pour l’opération « Visages de la Science » en Aquitaine en 2008.
Best « High Performance Computing – Europa » supercomputing project, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, HPC-Europa program, Barcelona, Spain, 2007.
Best « High Performance Computing – Europa » supercomputing project, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, HPC-Europa program, Barcelona, Spain, 2006.
Lauréat du Gordon Bell SuperComputing award 2003 (prix international d’informatique et de calcul parallèle de la Conférence SuperComputing’2003, Phoenix, Arizona, Novembre 2003).
Academic Degrees:
Habilitation (Habilitation à Diriger
des Recherches, HDR), Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour,
France, 2003
Ph.D. (Doctorat de Géophysique), Institut de
Physique du Globe de Paris, France, 1997 (advisor: Prof Jean-Pierre
Vilotte)
M.S. (Master/DEA d'électronique), University of
Paris - Jussieu, France, 1993
Télécom ParisTech (ENST)
engineering school (Diplôme d'ingénieur), Paris, France, 1993
B.Sc. (Maîtrise de Physique), University of Paris - Jussieu,
France, 1991
I am a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG).