Current Employment (from 2006)

Assistant Professor in Geodynamics and Tectonic (Maître de conférence), ISTEP, LPP team, Paris

Professional Skills

• Dynamic thermo-mechanical modelling (FDM, FEM, FLAC)
• rock mechanics
• structural geology
• Computer programming (Fortran77/Fortran90, Matlab, C, IDL, HTML, CSS)

Previous job (appart from feeding jobs)

July 2005 - August 2006

Post doctoral fellow Sismolab, GPS, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

October 2004 - June 2005

ATER (short term teaching position) Laboratoire de Tectonique, UPMC,Paris

Education

October 2001 - October. 2004

Ph.D study realised at IFP and covering the following subjects:

1. Modelling:
   • Formulation and implementation of a 3D thermo-mechanical finite element code.
   • Dynamic modelling of the reactivation of inherited mechanical heterogeneity during extension
   • Fault mechanics, plastic strain localisation, fracturing
2. Structural Geology: Structural Evolution of the Gulf of Corinth, its relationship with the back arc geodynamics

Thesis supervisors: Prof. E. Burov (UPMC), Dr. I. Moretti (IFP)

September 2000 - June 2001

MSc "Quantitative methods and modelisation of sedimentary basins" (DEA MQMBS (IFP, ParisVI, ParisVII, ENSMP, MNHN)) ;
Research subject : Structural Evolution of the Gulf of Corinth, its relation with the back arc geodynamics;
Supervisors: Prof. E. Burov (UPMC), Dr. I. Moretti (IFP).

September 1996 - June 2000

Equivalent of 2nd university degree "Maitrse de Gologie" (UPMC)
Research subjects :

• Dynamic modelling of UHP rocks exhumation in the Alps supervisor (Pr. E. Burov, Pr. L. Jolivet)
• Geochimical characterisation of mixed magmas in the chaîne des Puits, France (Pr. B. Villemant)

Teaching experience

• Modelling lecture and practice exercice with Matlab for 4th year undergraduates (MU128)
• Geomechanics for 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates (LT212, LT302)
• Matlab progamming 3rd year undergaduates (LT305)
• Mapping and general geology for 1st and 2d year undergraduates (LT101, LT102, LT202)
• Mapping field class for third year undergraduates

Students

• Supervision of several Msc students
• Participation to the PhDs of Philippe Yamato, Benjamin Huet, Louise Watremez
• Supervision of Emmanuel Lecomte PhD
• Supervision of Nafissatou Traoré PhD

Research Visits and Special Training Courses

Month Visit at Caltech (Gurnis/Saleeby) 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010

FEM course - August-October 2003, PGP, University of Oslo, Norway

2 Months visit at ETHz (Tackley) 2011

Language Skills

English (Fluent), German (read and write), French (mother tongue)