Bio:

• Docteur es Sciences, U. de Paris VII, France
• Ingenieur Civil des Mines, Ecole de Mines de Paris
• Ingenieur du Petrole Ecole du Petrole, Inst. Francais du Petrole
• Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

• Propagation and attenuation of seismic waves
• Nuclear monitoring by geoohysical means
• Applications of space geodesy to the study of plate motions and deformation
• Mass balance of polar ice sheets
• Intermediate-term earthquake prediction
• Precise airborne and spaceborne laser altimetry and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)
• Numerical modeling of Earthquakes and their effects in a grid framework