Curriculum Vitae

Zacharie DUPUTEL

Address:

California Institute of Technology
Seismological Laboratory
1200 E. California Blvd., MS 252-21
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

Telephone: +1 626-395-3801

Email: zacharie@gps.caltech.edu

Citizenship: French

Born: May 28, 1984

Seismological Laboratory, Caltech, USA

Post-doctoral scholar in Geophysics.

Develop a general formalism to explicitly take prediction uncertainties into account and improve static and kinematic source modeling.

Multiple CMT inversions for moderate to large earthquakes.

Long-period surface waves analysis for robust characterization of large earthquakes.

Design and optimization of finite-fault inversions based on very dense seismic networks.

IPGS - EOST, Université de Strasbourg, France

Ph.D. in geophysics. Advisor: Prof. Luis Rivera.

W-phase source inversion: Optimization and parallelization of the code, extension of the algorithm to the three components of the ground motion.

Application of the W-phase algorithm for Mw>=6.0 worldwide earthquakes between 1990 and 2010.

Adapting the W-phase fast source inversion to regional distances: Japan and Mexican region.

Real-time implementation of the W-phase fast source inversion at the IPGS (Strasbourg), UNAM (Mexico) and PTWC (Hawaii).

Error estimations for source inversion in seismology.

IMG, Vienne, France

Internship. Advisors: Prof. Michel Cara, Stéphanie Guerbet.

Analysis and Inversion of Rayleigh-wave dispersion on arrays of high frequency sensors.

OVPF - IPGP, La Réunion, France

Internship. Advisors: Valérie Ferrazzini and Florent Brenguier.

Monitoring of relative velocity changes using ambient seismic noise at the Piton de la Fournaise volcano.

EOST, Université de Strasbourg, France

Teaching assistant, Instructor: M. Frogneux.

Informatics I: C language (50h/yr, B.Sc. and M.Sc. students).

Informatics II: C and Fortran (10h/yr, B.Sc. and M.Sc. students).

EOST, Université de Strasbourg, France

Teaching assistant, Instructor: V. Blanloeil.

Math: Linear algebra (13h/yr, B.Sc. students).

EOST, Université de Strasbourg, France

Teaching assistant, Instructor: M. Cara.

Seismology: Introduction to Seismology (2h, M.Sc. students).

EOST, Université de Strasbourg, France

Teaching assistant, Instructor: L. Rivera.

Seismology: Source physics (1h, M.Sc. students).

IPGS - EOST, Université de Strasbourg, France

M.Sc. student co-supervision with L. Rivera

The Guerrero gap: from historical seismicity to contemporary deformation (M.Sc. student: Alexandre Tourette).

EOST, Université de Strasbourg, France

Teaching assistant. Instructor: Philippe Duringer.
Geology field course (B.Sc. and M.Sc students).

IPGS - EOST, Université de Strasbourg, France

French science event. Contact: V. Ansel
Introducing the Strasbourg Geophysical Institute activities to the public.

IPGS - EOST, Université de Strasbourg, France

Ph.D. in Geophysics.

EOST, Université Louis Pasteur, France

M.Sc. in Geophysics, with honors, first class.

EOST, Université Louis Pasteur, France

B.Sc. in Geophysics, with honors.

Université de la Réunion, France

DEUG in Earth Sciences (General University Diploma with majors in physics and geology), with honors.

Lycée Louis Payen, La Réunion, France

High school Diploma, with honors.

Université de Strasbourg, France

Parallel computing: openMP, MPI, GPGPU

Université de Strasbourg, France

Python programming

INRIA Nancy, France

Summer school: MPFR

Erice, Italy

ORFEUS Workshop on Real-Time Seismology

Seismological Laboratory, Caltech, USA

Member of the organizing commitee of Caltech Seismolab brownbag seminars.

Geophysical Journal International

Reviewer for GJI.

Université de Strasbourg, France

Member of the organising commitee for the Ph.D. student meeting of the geoscience doctoral school website.

IPGS - EOST, Université de Strasbourg, France

Elected Ph.D. student substitute representative at the geophisical institute's scientific council.

OVPF - IPGP, La Réunion, France

Internship. Advisors: V. Ferrazzini, T. Staudacher, A. Peltier.

Helped deploy instrumentation around the Piton de la Fournaise volcano (seismic stations, GPS, ...).

EOST and Géoazur, Villefranche Sur Mer, France

Marine geophysics training. Advisors: J.M. Marthelot, M. Schaming.
Marine acquisition of bathymetry, seismic reflection and refraction over the Villefranche passive margin.

EOST, Riedseltz, Alsace, France

Geophysics field camp. Advisors: J.B. Edel, G. Herquel.
Hands-on geophysical study using seismic reflection and refraction, gravity, magnetics, electrical resistivity, electromagnetics and radar (GPR).

Laboratoire Géosciences Réunion - IPGP, La Réunion, France

Field training. Advisor: A. Finizola.
Self Potential survey of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano hydrothermal system.

KOERI, Istambul, Turkey

Training period. Advisor: N. Türkelli.
Participating in the observatory routine. (seismic phase picking, magnitude estimation, etc.).

Mt Desert Alma sugar cane factory, Moka, Mauritius Island

Training period.
Assessing the factory's environmental impact.

La Réunion and Antananarivo University, Madagascar

Field training. Advisors: J.L. Join, L. Michon, R. Rambelosovon, A. Rasoamiaramanana.
East-West geological section of Madagascar.

Mention spéciale Google - Prix le Monde de la Recherche

Special Google Award as part of the "Le Monde" Prize for University Research.

Prix de thèse de l'Université de Strasbourg

Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research.

French Ministry of Research and Higher Education Fellowship.

W-phase source inversion package

Main contributor with L. Rivera, H. Kanamori.

Real-time implementation of the W-phase source inversion package at UNAM, Mexico

Main contributor with L. Rivera, H. Kanamori, A. Iglesiasi, X. Pérez-Campos.

Real-time implementation of the W-phase source inversion package at PTWC, Hawaii

Main contributor with L. Rivera and H. Kanamori, S. Weinstein, B. Hirshorn.

Real-time calculation of ambient seismic noise correlation for volcano monitoring

Main contributor with V. Ferrazzini, F. Brenguier, N. Shapiro, M. Campillo, A. Nercessian.

Unix-like (Linux, Mac OS, FreeBSD, Solaris), Windows.

C, C++, Fortran, MPI, openMP, Python, Octave, Matlab, Shell scripting (csh, bash), Latex, HTML.

SAC, GMT, slarchive, rdseed, PQL II, SeisComp.

Full list available

French (mother tongue), English (TOEIC score: 885), Spanish

Hiking, Skiing, Sailing, Music, Digital SLR Photography