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Training and Education
| 2006 | French HDR post-doctoral degree (Geophysics) for accreditation to supervise research, University Paris Diderot |
| 1992-1996 | Ph.D. (Glaciology) from LGGE, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble |
| 1990-1992 | Master 1 (Physics) and Master 2 (Oceanology, Meteorology, Environment) degrees, University Paris 6 (UPMC) |
Appointments
| Dec. 2022 | Invited stay at Kalvi Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, USA, Multiphase Flows |
| 2021-2026 | Member of Institut Universitaire de France IUF |
| 2020-present | 'Outstanding class - highest level' full professor, University of Paris, Seismology group, IPGP |
| 2016-2020 | 'Outstanding class - level 1' full professor, University Paris Diderot, Seismology group, IPGP |
| 2012-present | Creation and Head of the Master speciality 'Telluric Natural Hazards' |
| 2012-2017 | Partial transferal (15%) ANGE group, INRIA-J.L. Lions-CEREMA |
| August 2012 | Visiting professor at CalTech Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, USA |
| 2012-2016 | 'First class' full professor, University Paris Diderot, Seismology group, IPGP |
| 2011-2015 | Head of the Seismology group, IPGP (15 researchers, 5 technicians/engineers, 30 post-doc and PhD researchers) |
| 2010-2012 | Full professor, University Paris Diderot, Seismology group, IPGP |
| 2006-2007 | Sabbatical year at Institute for NonLinear Sciences, University of California San Diego, USA (CNRS transferal) |
| 1998-2010 | Associate Professor, University Paris Diderot, IPGP |
| 1997-1998 | Post-doctoral Research Fellow at CEA and Volcanic Observatories, IPGP |
Funding ID
Project leader at IPGP for national and European projects:| 2027-2033 | ERC Synergy project - geophysics, mathematics, mechanics/physics (IPGP, CNRS, University Napoli, 9999 ke).
| 2027-2030
| ANR ASTRID SismSimIce (French lab. IPGP, PIMM-ENSAM, Ecole Centrale Nantes, IGE, ITES, 400 ke),
Seismology and high-fidelity simulation for iceberg-calving characterization, Interface geophysics/mechanics.
| 2025-2028
| MITI-CNRS, SAGLIS (French lab. IPGP, Institut Langevin, ITES, 150 ke), Seismic and hydroacoustic waves emitted by submarine landslides at laboratory scale for the detection and evaluation of associated hazards.
| 2020, 2022, 2025, 2026
| ERC Synergy project - geophysics, mathematics, mechanics/physics retained for the third step of evaluation for the fourth time.
| 2014-2020
| ERC Consolidator Grant (2 Me), SLIDEQUAKES
(European Research Council),
Detection and understanding of landslides by observing and modelling gravitational flows
and generated earthquakes.
| 2013-2016
| Sorbonne Paris Cite, PEGES (French lab. IPGP, Univ. Paris 13, 80 ke), Plasticity of geophysical flows and seismic emissions.
| 2012-2015
| Mathematics and Interfaces, ANR LANDQUAKE (French lab. LAMA, IPGP, LPGN, EOST, 180 ke), Mathematical and numerical modelling of landslides and generated seismic waves.
| 2012
| INSU 2012 Natural Hazards (6 ke), Field measurements on pyroclastic flow deposits in Montserrat, Lesser Antilles.
| 2008-2011
| In charge of the landslide part of ANR UNDERVOLC (French lab. IPGP, LGIT, BRGM, OPGC, 738 ke), Understanding volcanic processes: towards eruption prediction and risk mitigation, an application to Piton de la Fournaise volcano, Reunion Island.
| 2007- 2011
| ANR young researcher VOLBIFLO (French lab. LMV, IPGP, 135 ke), The dynamics of volcanic biphasic flows.
| 2006-2008
| PNTS (French lab. LMV, IPGP, EDF, 30 ke), Laser scanner measurements of pyroclastic flow deposits on Lascar volcano, Chile.
| 2006-2010
| Mathematics and Interfaces, ANR PLANETEROS (French lab. DMA-ENS, IPGP, LAMA, IDES-Orsay, 250 ke), Numerical modelling of gravitational flows on Earth and on Mars.
| 2002-2006
| ACI New interfaces of Mathematics 2003-2005 (French lab. IPGP, DMA-ENS, INRIA, 45 ke), ACI Hazards and Global Changes 2004-2006 (French lab. LMV, IPGP, 10 ke), ATIP 2002-2004 (French lab. IPGP, DMA-ENS, INRIA, 20 ke).
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| 2027-2030 | ANR UnderFlank (IPGP, LGL-TPE, GET, ITES, ISTerre, 740 ke) Understanding volcano flank dynamics. |
| 2027-2030 | ANR FLASH France-Greenland GREENSLIDE (ITES, 200 ke) GREENland Seismological and AI-based Inventory of LandSLIDE hazards. |
| 2027-2030 | ANR ASTRID SismSimIce (French lab. IPGP, PIMM-ENSAM, Ecole Centrale Nantes, IGE, ITES, 400 ke), Seismology and high-fidelity simulation for iceberg-calving characterization, Interface geophysics/mechanics. |
| 2026-2029 | European project Horizon-Infra Earth-AID, Agentic AI for trustworthy impact simulations integrating digital twins and data lakes for geohazards and georessources within Destiantion Earth, 19 European laboratories and stakeholders (PI Stefan Wiemer, ETH Zurich). |
| 2025-2028 | PEPR Maths-Vives, 1 project in the targeted action 'Complex Flows' on numerical modelling of complex geophysical flows, colloration geosciences, mechanics, and mathematics, (PIs Didier Bresch and Farhang Radjai). |
| 2025-2028 | PEPR IRiMa, 2 projects in the targeted action 'Risques Outre-Mer' in Mayotte and Antilles, collaboration geosciences, mathematics, geography, economics, (PIs Anne Le Friant, Jean-Christophe Komorowski). |
| 2022-2025 | Doctoral Network EnvSeis, Studying the Earth's surface with seismic methods, 23 European laboratories and stakeholders (2.7 Me) (PI Jens Turowski, GFZ, Germany). |
| 2022-2025 | European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), Center of Excellence for Exascale in Solid Earth - Second Phase ChEESE-2P, 16 European laboratories (3.8 Me) (PI Arnau Folch, CSIC Barcelona). |
| 2022-2025 | Horizon Europe Research Infrastructures DT-GEO, 19 European laboratories (11 Me), A Digital Twin for GEOphysical extremes. |
| 2019-2022 | ANR MONIDAS (PI Olivier Coutant, ISTerre) |
| 2017-2020 | ANR RAVEX (PI Olivier Roche, LMV) |
| 2016 | INSU TelluS Ecoulements granulaires sur fortes pentes (PI Alexandre Valance, IPR, physics) |
| 2016 | INSU-INSMI-MI Complex Rheology SURface Flows (PI Cindy Guichard, LJJ, applied math) |
| 2015-2018 | Portugal project MegaHazards |
| 2015-2018 | ANR MIMOSA (PI Eléonore Stutzmann, IPGP) |
| 2014-2017 | ANR CARIB (PI Anne Le Friand, IPGP) |
| 2010-2011 | Interdisciplinary funding, Paris Diderot University |
| 2005-2007 | ACI young researcher |
| 2000-2006 | ACI Natural Hazard and Climatic Change (2004-2006), ACI Natural Hazard (2000-2003) |
| 2011- | INERIS (PhD 2011-2015 Jannes Kinschler), DGA (PhD 2013-2016 Amandine Sergeant) |
Synergetic activities
| 2016-present | Member of the French Minister group on prevention of major natural hazards, COPRNM |
| 2025-present | Member of the Soloviev Medal committee of EGU. |
| 2021-2025 | President of the CNRS National Committee section 18 (Earth and telluric planets: structure, history, models), S18 |
| 2021-2025 | Member of Conference of Presidents of the CNRS National Committee, CPCN |
| 2021-2025 | Permanent guest of Scientific Committee of the National Institute of Universe Sciences, CSI INSU |
| 2021-2025 | Member of CNRS Solid Earth Committee, CSTS |
| 2021-2025 | Member of Scientific committee of ISTerre, UGA/CNRS/USBM/IRD/Univ. Gustave Eiffel |
| 2021-present | Member of the steering committee of Assises Nationales des Risques Naturels 2022 |
| 2020-2021 | Member of the National Committee of Universities CNU section 37 (Enveloppes of the Earth and other Planets) |
| 2017- 2020 | Member of the IPGP Volcanologic and Seismologic Observatories scientific board |
| 2017-2020 | Member of the French Landslide Observatory scientific board, OMIV |
| 2013-2018 | Member of Scientific committee of IPGP |
| 2011-2014 | Member of Scientific committee, Observatory of Côte d’Azur |
| 2005-2012 | Member of Scientific committee, BRGM |
| 2009-2015 | Committee member, INSU Natural Hazards |
| 2011-present | Member of Management committee of the IPGP center of parallel computing and data processing, S-CAPAD |
| 2008-2012 | Member of IPGP Doctoral School committee |
| 2007-2008 | Member of Administration board of University Paris-Diderot |
| 2006-present | Member of Specialist Committees of Universities of Montpellier, Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, Claude Bernard, Lyon I, and Paris Diderot |
| 2000-2011 | Member of Administration board of IPGP |
| 2008-2010 | Member of Management committee of Dept. of Earth Sciences, Paris Diderot |
| 2008-2010 | Member of Pedagogical committee of Dept. of Earth Sciences, Paris Diderot |
| 2004-2007 | Member of Management board of IPGP |
Scientific cooperation and coordination
| 2011-present | Participation in the creation of the EGRIN research group (gravitational flows and natural hazards) and member of its Administration board |
| 2012 | Co-leader of the research agreement between IPGP and the Research Federation in Mathematics of Paris Center |
| 2011 | Organisation of a 1-day meeting of MeGe research group on Mechanics/Geophysics |
| 2011 | Organisation of the prospective meeting of INSU committee on Hazard, Risks and Telluric Disasters |
| 2013 | Co-convenor of the EGU session on “Morphodynamics of particulate geophysical flows: Erosion, transport, segregation and deposits” |
| 2002-present | Participation in research groups including Milieux Divisés (1998-2006), TransNat (2008-), Phenix (2008-) and HYKE Research Training Network in Applied Mathematics (2002-2005) |
Supervision
| - 25 PhD students (100% for 1 PhD student, 50% for 22 PhD students and 20% for 2 PhD students). 15 students have already defended their PhDs. |
| - 13 post-docs |
| - 1 Technological Research Diploma |
| - 22 Master's students and 4 Bachelor's degree students |
Teaching and pedagogical involvement
| 1998- | Full time teaching at the Earth and Planetary Science department of University Paris Diderot (undergraduate and graduate levels) |
| 2011-present | Creation and Management of the Natural Hazards Master's program, University of Paris |
| 2005-2010 | Management of undergraduate teaching teams |
| 2010-2012 | Leader of two educational projects of the PRES Sorbone Paris Cité: "Training for the management of health and social crises and natural hazards" and "Frontiers between geosciences and applied languages" |
Research contribution and impact
Publication list| - h-index=47 and 7500+ citations according to Scopus, h-index=56, i10-index=125, and 11650+ citations according to Google Scholar, |
| - 143 publications in peer-reviewed journals of geophysics, mechanics, mathematics and physics including 2 highlight paper, 1 review, 1 Science, 1 Nature Com., 1 Sci. Report, 2 Comm. Earth Environment. |
| - 42 other publications |
| - 276 communications in national and international workshops including 32 invited talks (AGU, EGU, etc.) |
| - 46 invited lectures in international workshops, 11 invited courses at international schools |
| - 70 invited seminars in Universities in France, UK, Switzerland, Spain, Iceland, USA, Canada, China etc. |
| - Software (SHALTOP) development with F. Bouchut for the simulation of gravity flows on realistic topographies distributed to the scientific community and to design offices (CNRS license application) |
Popularization actions
| - 15 popularization papers including Encyclopedia Solid Earth Geophys. |
| - 20 lessons in schools and high-schools, TV show on French iTélé channel |
| - Press release newspaper/web, interviews TV and radio |
| - help to a book for kids (24 Heures dans le monde, S. Mirza, 2017) |
| - Art/Science show on climate change denial with a musician, an actor and scientists |
| - Support to Ministry and prefects for risk assessment |
Expert evaluation and reviews
| - Review of more than 60 papers for international journals |
| - Expert evaluation for 5 French ANR projects, 3 French ACI projects, 3 regional projects (Rhône-Alpes, ETH Zürich), 30 national INSU projects, 1 Portuguese project in Earth and Space Science |
| - Reviewer of 23 PhDs and 7 HDR degrees in geophysics, mathematics and physics |
Societal implication
I dedicated myself to the transfer of academic tools and knowledge towards risk assessment: participation to the ministerial group COPRNM and to the Volcanology and Seismology Observatory in Mayotte where I build hazard maps related to landslide generated tsunamis; regular meetings with the prefect, the inter-ministry representative of major risks in overseas departments and local population.Academic Awards
| French award for Scientific Excellence (rank AAAA) (2010-2026), |
| ERC Consolidator grant SLIDEQUAKES (2014-2019, success rate 2013 ~8.5%), |
| Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2021-2026) |
| Soloviev Medal, EGU (2022) LINK |