CV

Current position: Maître de Conférences HDR, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Université de Paris (UP)

Area of specialization : Space Geodesy and Remote Sensing applied to Active Tectonics and Volcanism

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Born 22 August 1982, Sèvres, France

Nationality French

Marital status Married

Family 2 children (born 2011 & 2016)

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Academic positions

2012-today

Associate Professor

(Maître de Conférences)

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP)

Université de Paris (UP)

2010-2012

CNES Post-doctoral Research Fellow

(Post-doctorant CNES)

École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS)

Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES)

2009-2010

Teaching Assistant

(Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche)

Université Paris Diderot

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Education

2019

Habilitation to Supervise Research (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches), awarded in December 2019.

Dissertation: “From the earthquake source to seismic hazard: contribution of space geodesy”.

2006-2009

PhD in Geophysics, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, awarded in December 2009.

Dissertation: “Insights into magmatic rifting processes from space geodesy: 2005-2009 Afar rifting episode”.

Supervisor : Dr. Geoffrey C. P. King. Co-supervisor : Dr. Anne Socquet.

2002-2005

General Engineering Degree, École des Mines de Paris (Ingénieur Civil des Mines), awarded in July 2005.

Specialization in Earth Sciences and Environment.

Second year project carried out at University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK).

Final year project carried out at IPGP.

Dissertation: “Testing the Accelerating Moment Release hypothesis in Greece”.

Supervisor : Dr. Geoffrey C. P. King.

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Fellowships & Scholarships

2010-2012

Post-doctoral Research Fellowship (2 years), Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES)

2006-2009

PhD Fellowship (3 years), Ministry of Higher Education and Research (France)

2005-2006

Masters Research Fellowship (1 year), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)

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Awards and Recognition of Scientific Excellence

2019

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Geodesy Section “John Wahr Early Career Award”. ☞ Go to citation web page

2019

Prime d’Encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche (4 years)

2010

“Best 2009 PhD thesis” (ex-æquo) awarded by Comité National Français de Géologie (CNFG). Prize:2300€.

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Scientific Responsibilities

2021-today

Member of the Steering Committee of SNO “ISDeform”

ISDeform (“Imagerie Satellitaire pour la Deformation”) is a new national service of observation (SNO) created in 2021.

2019

Member of the Scientific Committee “REVOSIMA” (scientific and operational response to volcano-seismic unrest in Mayotte)

2021-today

Member of the Executive Board of “ForM@Ter”

ForM@Ter is the French national data center for Solid Earth Science. It is part of the national strategy for the management of scientific data led by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and implemented by Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers (INSU).

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Editors’ citations for excellence in refereeing

2015 Earth, Planets and Space

2013 Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth

2012 Geophysical Research Letters

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Supervisory experience

2020-2023

Louis-Marie Gauer (PhD)

“Estimating recent glacier melt in the Southern Hemisphere from satellite gravimetry and SAR interferometry.”

Funding: MESRI.

Co-director K. Chanard.

2020-2023

Roland Akiki (PhD)

“Local time and space estimation of small movements of permanent scatterers by SAR interferometry”

Funding: CIFRE. Director: J.M. Morel, ENS Saclay

2018-2020

Francisco Delgado (CNES Post-doc)

“Transient episodes of magma injection in silicic volcanoes: assessing the stress state in shallow magma reservoirs”

Funding: CNES. Now Asst.Prof. at Univ. de Chile

Now Assistant Professor at Universidad de Chile ☞ Go to Francisco’s web page

2017-2020

Tara L. Shreve (PhD)

“Crustal deformation at Ambrym imaged with satellite geodesy: constraints on magma storage, migration, and outgassing”

Co-director: J.C. Komorowski.

Now post-doc at Carnegie Science. ☞ Go to Tara’s web page

2016-2019

Benjamin Lauer (PhD)

“Joint inversion of high-resolution InSAR, SAR and optical image correlation

for the Mw7.7 Balotchistan September 2013 earthquake ”

Funding: MESRI. Director: Y. Klinger.

Now with Earthcube.

2014-2015

Delphine Smittarello (MSc)

“Re-interpretation of the post-1978 transient deformation episode in the Asal Rift, Djibouti”

Now post-doc at ECGS (Luxembourg). ☞ Go to Delphine’s web page

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Academic Service

2017–2021

Head of the Geophysics – Solid Earth Masters training program of IPGP.

since 2012

Maître de Conférences (equivalent to a US 2-2 course load).

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Courses taught

since 2012

Space Geodesy and Remote Sensing of Earth’s Surface Deformation, Masters level (3 credits)

since 2014

Mathematics, Linear Algebra, Bachelor level (3 credits)

since 2012

Solid Mechanics and Electromagnetics, Bachelor level (7 credits)

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Research grants (as principal investigator)

since 2010

ESA, DLR, JAXA, ASI, CNES, CSA

>10 research projects as PI or co-I, access to satellite imagery (SAR and optical)

Total funding worth > 300 k€

2017-2018

Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers (INSU)

“Tracking topographic changes at Ibu volcano (Indonesia) using spaceborne radar imagery:

insights into mechanisms of volcanic dome growth”

Funding: 3 k€

2017-2019

IPGP internal call

“A prototype platform for near-real-time monitoring of deformation in the Lesser Antilles arc using Sentinel-1 InSAR data”

Funding: 15 k€

2015-2017

Programme National de Télédétection Spatiale (PNTS)

“Development of a pre-processor for Sentinel-1 InSAR data”

Funding: 29 k€

2012-2014

Université Paris Diderot

“Seismic cycle in the Himalaya and Chile convergence belts: insights from InSAR observations”

Funding: 7 k€

2010-2012

Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers (INSU)

“Joint geodetic-seismological study of interseismic strain accumulation across the Himalaya”

Funding: 18 k€

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Other research projects (as co-I or participant)

2020-2023