Jean-Paul Ampuero#
| Membership Number: | 7154 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://jpampuero.github.io/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4827-7987 |
| X: | @DocTerremoto |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/jeanpaul.ampuero |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ampueroseismologist/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 12/2017 - present Senior Researcher at IRD, Excellence Chair at Université Côte d’Azur, France
- 03/2016 - 12/2019 Professor, Caltech, USA
- 05/2008 - 02/2016 Assistant Professor, Caltech, USA
- 10/2007 - 03/2008 Visiting Research Fellow, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 01/2007 - 04/2008 Research Associate, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- 11/2004 - 12/2006 Post-doctoral Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- 10/2002 - 10/2004 Post-doctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational seismology
- Theoretical seismology
- Observational seismology
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Médaille du Sénat de la République Française for contributions to the relations between France and Latin America
- 2024 Elected member of Société Philomathique de Paris
- 2023 Médaille d’Argent du CNRS (Silver Medal of CNRS)
- 2023 Médaille Université Côte d’Azur
- 2021 Fondation Del Duca grant awarded by Académie des Sciences
- 2020 American Geophysical Union Fellow
- 2017 Excellence Chair at Université Côte d’Azur IDEX UCA-JEDI
- 2014 IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lectureship
- 2011 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award
