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1970-1974 Ecole Normale Supérieure, "Sèvres", Paris, France
1972 Maîtrise de Mathématiques Pures, UniversitéParis 6.
1973 Agrégation de Mathématiques, Paris, France
1975 Master of Science in Applied Physics, Harvard University
1975 Doctorat de 3e cycle in Astronomy, Université Paris 6.
1979 Doctorat d'Etat, Université Paris 7, Spécialité Géophysique.

Deep earth structure and dynamics using seismological tools: elastic and anelastic seismic tomography; waveform modelling of mantle and core phases; wave propagation in complex heterogeneous and anisotropic media; earth's normal modes and surface waves. Earthquake processes and scaling laws. Real time estimation of earthquake parameters. Development of modern broadband seismic and geophysical observatories on land and in the oceans. Planetary seismology. 


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More information about the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory is also available.

1978-79 Attachée de Recherches, C.N.R.S., Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris.
1979-81 Post Doctoral Associate, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass.
1981-86 Chargée de Recherches, C.N.R.S., I. P. G., Paris. Director, Geoscope Program
1986-90 Directeur de Recherches, C.N.R.S., I. P. G., Paris. Director, Geoscope Program
1991-2016 Professor of Geophysics, University of California at Berkeley. 
1991-2011 Director, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
2002-2006 Chair, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley 
2011-2020 Chaire de Physique de l'Intérieur de la Terre, Collège de France, Paris&nsbp
2016-pres Professor of the Graduate School, U.C. Berkeley &nsbp
2020-pres Professeur Honoraire, Collège de France, Paris 

1989 French Academy of Sciences Prize (Fonds Doistau-Blutet)
1990 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
1992 Silver Medal of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (French NSF)
1999 Wegener Medal of the European Union of Geosciences
2001 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2003 Gutenberg Medal of the European Geophysical Society
2004 Gutenberg Lecturer, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting
2005 Member, National Academy of Sciences
2008 Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur, France
2009 Li Ka Shing Foundation, "Women in Science" Fellowship
2009 Inge Lehmann Medal, American Geophysical Union
2010 Miller Professor, U.C. Berkeley
2011  Harry F. Reid Medal, Seismological Society of America
2013 Elected member Academie des Sciences, France
2018 Elected Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences
2019 Elected Fellow of the IUGG
2019 Emil Wiechert Medal of the German Geophysical Society (DGG)
2019 William Bowie Medal, American Geophysical Union
2020 Wollaston Medal, Geological Society of London
2021 IASPEI Medal

Graduate Students

Brandon, Catherine: Th�se de 3e cycle Paris 1985
Ghorabi, Moncef: Th�se de 3e cycle Paris 1985
Monfret, Tony: Th�se de l'Universit� Paris 7, 1987 (currently research scientist at Univ. of Nice, France)
Mocquet, Antoine: These de l'Universite Paris 7, 1987 (currently Professor in Rennes, France)
Lognonne, Philippe: These de l'Universite Paris 7, 1989 (currently Professor in Paris-Diderot Univ., France)
Bourjot, Laurence: These de l'Universite Paris 7, 1991
Bussy, Martine: These de l'Universite Paris 7, 1993
Nawab, Ramin: These de l'Universite Paris 7, 1994
Le Stunff, Yves: PhD UC Berkeley 1995 (currently research scientist at TOTAL, France)
Antolik, Michael: PhD UC Berkeley 1996 
Pasyanos, Michael: PhD, UC Berkeley 1996 (currently research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: pasyanos@s74.es.llnl.gov)
Megnin, Charles: PhD UC Berkeley 1999
Kuo, Chaincy: PhD UC Berkeley 2000 (currently research scientist at LBNL, Berkeley, CA)
Breger, Ludovic: PhD UC Berkeley 1999 (currently at Barclays, San Francisco, CA)
Tkalcic, Hrvoje: PhD, UC Berkeley 2001 (currently Head of Seismology and Mathematical Geophysics. Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University)
Gung, Yuancheng: PhD, UC Berkeley 2003 (currently Professor, Taiwan National University)
Panning, Mark: PhD UC Berkeley 2004 (currently res. scientist at JPL, CA)
Cao Aimin, PhD- UC Berkeley 2005 (currently senior researcher,
)
Rhie, Junkee: PhD UC Berkeley 2006 -currently, professor Seoul Univ.
Toh, Akiko: PhD UC Berkeley 2006 - (Currently researcher at IFREE, Japan)
Rousset, Sebastien: MSc UC Berkeley 2004
Shulgin, Alexey: MA 2005 -UC Berkeley
Lekic, Vedran PhD  2009 U.C. Berkeley (currently associate professor at University of Maryland)
Dou, Shan MS  2011 UC Berkeley

Cottaar, Sanne PhD 2013 UC Berkeley (currently Lecturer at Cambridge U., UK)
Zheng, Zhao (Allen) PhD 2013 UC Berkeley
French, Scott PhD 2014 UC Berkeley (currently at Google).

Meschede, Matthias, PhD 2015 IPG Paris

Clouzet, Pierre, PhD 2017- IPG Paris (currently post-doc at ENS, Lyon, France)

Ibourichene, Anais, PhD  2018 - IPG Paris (currently post-doc at CRPG, Nancy, France)

Salmi, Laura, MSc 2016 - U.C. Berkeley

Wamba, Mathurin, PhD 2020 - IPG Paris (currently post-doc at Princeton U., USA)

Robson, Alexander, PhD 2020 - U.C. Berkeley

Chen, Li-Wei, PhD candidate 2016 - U.C. Berkeley

Adourian, Sevan, PhD candidate 2017 - U.C. Berkeley

Su, Heng-Yi, PhD candidate 2019-, U.C. Berkeley

1981-1990 

1981-90 Member, Scientific Board, IPG Paris
1984-90 Vice-President, Seismological section of CNFGG (IUGG Rep. for France)
1984 Organizer, Symposium on "broad band and long period seismology in Europe"
1984-85 Chair, EGS Working Group on European Broadband Digital Network (to become ORFEUS)
1985-90 Member, Executive Committee of ORFEUS
1986 Co-Convenor, Symposium on "array and Global Network seismology", EGS/ESC meeting, Kiel,RFA
1986-89 Vice-President, FDSN (Federation of Digital Seismic Networks)
1987-90 European Editor, Geophysical Research Letters
1987-90 PI for "Seismology on Mars", project "Mars 94" of CNES
1989-91 Member, Executive Committee FDSN
1989-91 PI Project "OFM/SISMOBS"(broadband seafloor pilot experiment in and near ODP hole 396b)
1991-92 Co-PI Project "OFM/SISMOBS" 

SINCE 1991 

1991-to pres. Honorary President, Geoscope Program
1989-1992 Co-Principal Investigator, project "OFM/SISMOBS". Successful phase 1 experiment in mid-Atlantic in April-May 1992.
1991 Geophysics Review Panel, N.S.F. (spring 1991, substituting)
1991-1994 Instruments and Facilities Review Panel, N.S.F.
1991-1997 Member, Advisory Council to the Southern California Earthquake Center (Chair, 1991-1994)
1991-1993 Member, GSN Standing Committee, IRIS, also liaison to Ocean Seismic Network
1991-1997 Member, Board of Directors of Seismological Society of America.
1992 Organizer, "Symposium on Broadband Seismology", U.C. Berkeley
1994-1996 Member, Fellows Committee, AGU
1994-1996 Member, Ocean Seismic Network committee
1994-1996 President Elect, Seismology Section, American Geophysical Union
1996-1998 President, Seismology Section, American Geophysical Union
1996-2000 Editor, Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors
1996 member, NSF review panel for CHiPR ( National Science Center for High Pressure Research)
1997 Co PI, MOISE experiment (broadband seafloor pilot experiment in Monterey Bay, CA 
1997 Member, CHiPR advisory board.
1994-to pres. Member International Ocean Network Committee secretary 1994-1997, chair 1998-2002.
1997 Member, Site review team for Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA.
1997 Member, review committee for the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
1997 co-PI, Monterey bay Ocean International Seismic Experiment (MOISE)
1997-2002 Member, National Research Council Committee on the "Science of Earthquakes"
1998-1999 Member, advisory committee for SCiGN program
1998-2000 Member, advisory committee for TriNet program
1998-1999 Member IRIS Planning Committee
1999 Member, Intern. Review Team for Earthq. Res Inst., Tokyo, Japan
1999-2003 Chair, Global Seismic Network Standing Committee, IRIS
2000-2003 Member, IASPEI Bureau
2000-2003 Member, Plate Boundary Observatory Steering Committee (Earthscope Program)
2000-pres. Member, CISN Steering Co- chair in 2000-2001
2001-2003. Member, Ocean Observatories Steering Committee (DEOS, NSF)
2001 Co-chair, Steering Committee, OHP/ION Symposium, Mt Fuji, Japan, Jan 21-27, 2001
2002 Co-chair, Steering Committee, Earthscope CSIT Workshop, Snowbird, Utah, March 24-27, 2002
2002-pres. Member, CIDER Steering Committee
2002-pres. PI, Monterey Ocean Bottom Broad Band Project (MOBB)
2003 Member, Site review team for the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue Univ.
2004 Member, Committee of Visitors, NSF/EAR.
2004  Lead Organizer,CIDER Summer Program at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara (CA), July12-Aug 6, 2004.
 2004-pres   MemberScientific Advisory Board, Institut de Recherche pour le D�veloppement, France
2005-2006       Member,Planning Committee, IRIS
2006    Member,Organization team, CIDER 2006 Summer Program, Kavli Institute for TheoreticalPhysics, Santa Barbara, CA - July 16 - Aug 5, 2006
2006    Member, ReviewCommittee, Institute of Geophysics, Universityof Reykjavik, Island.
2006- pres       Member,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (BESR), NRC.
2006- pres    Member,National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council
2006- pres    Member, Visiting Committee Department of Geophysics, Univ. of Alaskaat Fairbanks
2006- pres    Member, Visiting Committee Colorado School of Mines, Departmentof Geophysics
2006-2008  Member, Union Fellows Committee,American Geophysical Union   (chair, 2008-)
2006-2007 Editor,Volume 1, Treatise of Geophysics (Elsevier)
2007-2009  Member, advisory committee (COSS) forCollege de France, Paris.
2007-2009  Member, conseil d'administration, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France
2007-016     Reviewing Editor for Science
2008             Member, organizing team, CIDER'08 Summer Program - KAVLI Institute of Theoretical Physics, June 21-Aug 6, 2008
2008             Member, review committee of Helmholtz's foundation Geoforschungs Zentrum, Potsdam (Germany)
2008-2010    Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, GEOSCOPE program
2008             Co-chair, Long Range Science Plan for seismology writing team (NSF/IRIS)
2008-09        Seismology Coordinator, scientific review of the technical capabilities of the International Monitoring System (ISS�09
2008-2011     Member, Geophysics Panel, NSF
2009-10     Chair, California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN) Steering Committee

2009    Lead Organizer CIDER Community workshop, Marconi Center , May 17-21,2009

2010    Lead Organizer, CIDER Summer Program, KITP, Santa Barbara (CA), June 20-July 17, 2010

2010    Lead Organizer, SEDI International Meeting, U.C. Santa Barbara (CA), July 18-23, 2010

2010-2011        Member, Lehmann medal committee, American Geophysical Union

2011    Member, International Midterm Evaluation Committee  of the Norwegian CoEs (SFF-II)

2011    Member,  Arthur Holmes Medal Committee, European Geophysical Union.

2011    Member, Evaluation Committee for the Depart. of Earth Sciences, ETH, Zurich

2012    Member, International Review Committee, Earth Observatory of Singapore

2012 –2013      Member,  Scientific advisory Committee, Dept of Geology, Ecole Normale Supérieure,     Paris

2012-pres     PI, NSF/FESD CIDER-II program and coordinator, 2012 Summer Program, KITP, Santa Barbara (CA), July 1-Aug 8, 2012.

                     Member, organizing committee, 2013 and 2014 CIDER summer programs.

2010-2013       Co-Chair (2011) and Chair (2013) Gordon Research Conference on “Interior of the  Earth”

2012-2014        Member, Conseil d'Etablissement, Collège de France, Paris

2012-2014       Chair, Section 16, National Academy of Sciences

2013    Member, Search Committee for the President of IRIS (Incorporated Research         Institutions for Seismology).

2013-2014  Member Holmes Medal Committee, EGU

2015  Chair, Review Committee, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Science

2015  Member, Review Committee, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford U.

2015-pres       Member, advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Goettingen, Germany

2016- pres      Member of the Scientific Council, European Research Council (ERC).

2016- pres      Member, Advisory Committee for the EPOS program (European Plate Observing  System)

2016    Chair, Seismology Fellows Committee, AGU.

2018- pres      Member Strategic Advisory Committee, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences,    Univ. of Oslo, Norway

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