CV Yann Klinger


  • Education and professional experience


    • December 1994, Geophysical engineering degree at l'Ecole et Observatoire de Physique du Globe, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
    • January 1999, PhD in Seismology about the Dead Sea fault at l'Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg under supervision of L. Dorbath and J.P. Avouac (LDG/CEA)
    • October 1999 – September 2001, Post-doctoral fellow at the SeismoLab of California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
    • October 2001 – July 2011, Junior scientist at CNRS, working at laboratoire de tectonique de l’IPG de Paris
    • June 2007, Habilitation à diriger des recherches defended at IPGP – Univ. Paris 7. « Séismes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Des clefs pour comprendre les séismes de demain ? »
    • Since July 2011, Senior scientist at CNRS, working at laboratoire de tectonique de l’IPG de Paris

    • From September 2013, head of the Tectonic Lab. at IPGP

    • August 2007 – August 2008, Invited scientist, Earth and Planetary Sciences Dpt., Harvard University. Hosts : J. Rice et J. Shaw
    • 2015 - 2020, Adjunct Prof. San Diego State U., San Diego, USA
    • January 2020 – July 2020, visiting Miller Professor, Earth and Planetary Science Dpt., UC Berkeley, USA
    • February 2023, visiting professor, KAUST University, Saudi Arabia

  • Awards


    • 2004, Pierre Cardin award for Science, in the framework of celebration for long lasting cooperation between France and China
    • 2009, Outstandin reviewer for Geophys. J. Int.
    • 2010 - 2018, salary bonus PES/PEDR for profesionnal achievements
    • 2020, Miller professor award, UC Berkeley, USA
    • 2021, Pierre Pruvost award, French Geological Society
    • 2024, Stephan Mueller award, European Geosciences Union

  • Collective responsabilities in recent years


    • 2007 – 2019, Member of Commission Spécialisée des Sciences de la Terre, INSU
    • 2017 - 2019, Membre of l'Advisory Committee du Southern California Earthquake Center
    • 2009 – present, Elected at the scientific board of IPGP. From 2017, chair of the scientific board of IPGP
    • 2019 - present, Member (chair in 2020 & 2021) of the J. Morgan Early Career Award committee at AGU
    • 2020 - present, Membre of Advisory Board of IRSM, Sciences Academy of Czech Republic

  • Editorial activities

  • Teaching


    • Since 2006, Leading the Master 2 class Earthquake Geology (in english)
    • Teaching part of the yearly field class Active Faults in Greece (1 week, Master 2, in english)

  • Students


    • Since 2001, Supervision or co-supervision of 18 PhDs et 12 post-doctoral fellows. See updated full list in the downloadable CV

  • Publication and invited talks


    • Since 2001, Publication of more than 110 papers in peer-review journals. Many invited talks. See updated list of publication here. Updated list of talks can be found in the downloadable CV.

  • Others


    • 2012, Consultant for seismic hazard for a local community, Black-Forest, Germany
    • 2012, 2014, Consultant for AIEA in Chile, along the San Ramon fault
    • 2018 – 2020, member of the scientific board of Sigma-2 program (seismic hazard) d’EDF
    • 2018 - present, Consultant « active faults » for the South Korean geological service (KIGAM)

Full CV in english