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Biography

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Employment record

2008 - Present: Postdoctoral Fellow – ANU, RSES, Australia

2007 - 2008: Geologist Engineer – B.r.g.m., Orléans, Fr.
Udating the map of the Miocene-Pliocene boundary in the Golfe du Lion – Western Mediterranee, France.

2006 - 2007: Associate Researcher-Lecturer – Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Fr
2-D & 3-D numerical modeling of lithospheric deformations

• Deformation quantification and development of geomechanical models:
  Subduction of Oceanic Ridge in 3-D (i.e. New Hebrides-Tonga and Chile subduction zones)
  Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Interactions in 2-D
  Seismotectonics studies
  
• Seismicity distribution analysis and state of stress resolution:
  Relationship between oceanic ridge subduction and slab detachment (i.e. SW Pacific)

2003 - 2006: Doctorate – Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Fr  Lecturer Assistant

• 3-D numerical modeling of lithospheric deformations
  
  • Validation of an innovative 3-D F.E.M. code
    
  • Application to: Oceanic ridge subduction
    
  • Margin curvature
    
• Regional Structural Study: Tonga-Kermadec subduction zone
  
  • Identification of new tectonic features from seismicity distribution analysis
    
  • Resolution of regional state of stress
    
  • Study of deformation partitioning in convergent systems
    
  • Synthesis of geoscientific data and development of 3-D geodynamical models

2003: Research Training Course (6 months) – Université de Chambéry, Fr

• 2-D numerical modeling of lithospheric deformations
  
  • Quantification of continental lithospheric deformations (Ecuador subduction zone)
    
  • Geoscientific data synthesis and development of geomechanical model:
    Validation of the «orogenic prism model» (applied to the Ecuadorian Andes)
    

 

Qualification

2006         Doctorate – Geodynamics (PhD Thesis), Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France

2003         Dipl. d’Etudes Approfondies – Lithosphere Dynamics (MSc. Res.), Univ. de Savoie, Chambéry, France

2002         Maitrise – Earth Sciences (4th yr), Univ. Bretagne  Occidentale, Brest, France / National University Ireland, Galway, Ireland

2001         Licence – Earth Sciences  (3rd yr) Univ. Bretagne  Occidentale, Brest, France

2000         Dipl. Etudes Generales – Earth Sciences (1st + 2nd yrs), Univ. Bretagne  Occidentale, Brest, France

 

Geosciences Skills

REGIONAL STRUCTURAL STUDIES
→ Analysis and synthesis of geological and geophysical data
→ Development of 3-D geological models

• Tectonics-Seismology
- Statistical seismology data processing, identification of active tectonic structures
- State of stress resolution using inverse methods with CMT solutions or field data
• Marine geophysics
- Reflexion/refraction marine data acquisition, structural interpretation of seismic profiles
- Structural interpretation of bathymetry and gravity data
• Microscopy (Polarization)
- Deformation quantification
- Mineralogy
- Faunal study

GEOMECHANICS NUMERICAL MODELING
→ Validation and Use of F.E.M. codes (F.E.M. code ADELI 2-D & ADELI – 3-D, developed by R. Hassani, Geosciences Azur, Fr.)
→ Quantification of Deformation
→ Development of numerical studies
→ Definition of model parameters
→ Synthesis of results
→ Applications to regional studies

FIELD TRAINING
         → Structural Studies – Deformation quantification

2003 Deformation study at lithospheric scale
→ Mapping and petro-structural field study in convergent systems
(French Alps, Corsica, Cyprus ophiolite)

1999-2002  Deformation study in basement (Caledonides, Variscan Orogeny)
→ Metamorphic terranes : mapping, multi-scale deformation analysis (thin sections, outcrop, mapping), mineralogical analysis, geodynamical synthesis
→ Palaeozoic sedimentary terranes: mapping, structural analysis, paleontology
→ Magmatic terranes : fracturing groung plotting – Stereonett analysis

 

Teaching Experience

2006-2007: Associate Researcher-Lecturer – Université Nice-Sophia, Antipolis, Fr

2003-2006: Lecturer Assistant – Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Fr

• Introduction to Geology – 35h General geology, mapping tools, structural geology, Petrology (1 st year)
  
• Structural Geology - 35h Geological maps studies (1/50 000) (1st to 3rd years)
  
• Geodynamics - 30h Structure of the Earth interiors, plate boundaries (3rd year)
  
• Geology in France - 40h Study of the France geological map (1/1000000) (1st, 3rd and 4th years)
  
• Gravitational hazards - 20h Landslides studies: practical and fieldwork (2nd and 4th years)
  
• Fieldwork Methodology - 115h Field Mapping: cross-sections and sedimentary logs, tectonics, petrology (1st and 3rd years)
  
• Students Supervision - 50% 2-D numerical modeling of asperities subduction (Msc. Research students)