Senior Scientist (Directeur de recherche) IRD, Géoazur, Université Côte d’Azur

Deputy Director for Science of IRD (The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development)

Employment

Junior scientist at ORSTOM, Nouméa New Caledonia (1984-1987)
Junior scientist (chargé de recherche) at ORSTOM (Villefranche-sur-mer, France)
Senior scientist (Directeur de recherche) at IRD (2000) at Géoazur (Nice, France)

Director of Department « Dynamics of the Earth interior and continentale surfaces » IRD (2015-2020)
Président of the CSNO (Commission des services nationaux d’observation) (2014 - 2015)
Président of the evaluation comittee HCERES (GET and OMP, Toulouse, 2014)
Expert for the forward-looking workshop ARP MERMED (2013 - 2014)
Président of the scientific council of the OREME observatory (Montpellier) (2012 - 2016)
Expert for the working group « sea » of the French Research Alliance for the Environment (2012 - 2015)
Vice-President of the Scientific council of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (2010-2014)
President of the section 18 (Earth and the Terrestrial Planets: structure, history and models) of the National Committee of CNRS (2010 - 2012) – Member of this section since 2004
Member of the executive committee of the Pôle Mer Méditerranée cluster (2011-2014)
Director of the Géoazur Laboratory (2002-2009)

Second Thesis (Habilitation à diriger des recherches, 1998, Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
PhD degree in geophysics, Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (1984)
Formerly student of the École Normale Supérieure (Saint-Cloud)

Reviewer for international scientific journal
Expert for national and international several agencies (HCERES, ANR, NSF, etc)
Participation to ~15 PhD committee
PI of the REMAKE project – seismic forecast in Ecuador (ANR – 599 k€) 2016 - 2019
PI of PRIMA-OCEANOMED - research and development of submarine sensors (CPER – 2 M€) 2007 - 2014
Co-PI of the european program « Thales Was Right » in Lesser Antilles (ANR – 206 k€) 2006 - 2010
Co-PI of the SUBSISMANTI project in Lesser Antilles (ANR – 180 k€) 2005 - 2009
PI of the MOGLI project - research and development of submarine sensors (ANR – 300 k€) 2005 - 2009

Post-seismic rapid response experiment after the Mw 7.8 Pedernales earthquake (Ecuador) 2016
Participation to 18 cruises of geophysics
Chief scientist of 8 cruises of geophysics 1983 - 2014

Since 1988, I supervised more than 10 Master of Sciences and 12 PhD Thesis. I am teaching ~60 hours for undergraduate and Master of Sciences students at the University of Nice.