JEAN-PHILIPPE AVOUAC

1987                 Master Degree, Engineering                   Ecole Polytechnique, France

1991                 PhD, (advisor: Paul Tapponnier)             Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France    

1992                 Habilitation à diriger des recherches       Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris   

2004-present:    Director of Caltech Tectonics Observatory.

2003-present:    Professor of Geology, California Institute of Technology

1996-2002:        Chef du Laboratoire de Télédétection et Risque Sismique, CEA.

1991-1996 :       Ingénieur, Laboratoire de Géophysique, CEA, France

-          Humboldt Award for a senior US Scientist, 2010 (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)

-          Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for JGR-Solid Earth, 2008.

-          Birch Lecture, AGU, 2007

-          Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for JGR-Solid Earth, 2007.

-          Geol. Soc. of America  Best Paper Award, 2003, awarded to ‘Active folding of fluvial terraces across the Siwaliks Hills, Himalayas of central Nepal’ (Lave an Avouac, 2000).

-          E. A. Flinn Award, awarded by the International Lithosphere Program, 1993.

-          Member of the Advisory Committee, of the Institute of Earth Sciences (Taiwan).

-          Member of the steering Committee of the Centre for Observation and Modeling of Earthquakes and Tectonics (COMET), NERC, UK,   2002-2008.

-          Former member of a number of scientific committees in France (e.g.: Comité des Programmes Scientifiques du Centre National d’Etude Spatial (CNES); President of the ‘Programme National des Risques Naturels’ (2000-2002))

 Editorial activities and Professional Assocations

-          Member of the Editorial Advisory board for  Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters.

-          Guest Editor for Journal of Geophysical Research

-          Nature Reader Panel (2009-2010)

-          Reviewer for Science, Nature, Geology, IEEE-TGRS, Nature Geoscience, Geology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of Structural Geology, Geomorphology, Journal of Geodesy, Reviews of Geophysics, etc.

-         Professional Societies: American Geophysical Union, European Geophysical Union, Nepal Geological Society, Geological Society of America, Committee for Space Research, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

PhD Students (advised and co-advised):

Thomas Ader (2009-present), Marion Thomas (2009-present), Nina Lin (2008-present), Steve Kidder (2006-present) ; Sebastien Leprince (2003-2008), Ozgun Konca (2004-2008), Pierre Bettinelli (2002-2007); Beatrice Puyssegur (2002-2006); Martine Simoes (2002-2005); Laurent Bollinger (1998-2002); Blanche Poisson (1998-2002) ;Yann Klinger (1994-1998); Jérôme Lavé, (1993-1997); Benoit Lorne, (1993-1996);Rémi Michel, (1993-1997).

Total number of postdoctoral scholars advised: 8 in the past, 2 currently.

Current: James Hollingsworth, Nadaya Cubas, Sylvain Barbot

Past: Anthony Sladen (2007-2010), Itai Haviv(2008-2010); Alex Copley (2009-2010), Mohammed Chlieh (2004-2007), Mathieu Daeron (2005), Frederick Herman (2005-2007), Hugo Perfettini (2002-2003); Stéphane Dominguez (2000-2001); Rodolphe Cattin (1998-1999); Jean-Bernard de Chabalier (1995-1996)

~100 publications in international peer reviewed journals.

2 patents in image processing