Jean-Paul Ampuero - Curriculum Vitae#
Research highlights
- Theoretical seismology: earthquake nucleation, dynamics of very large ruptures, earthquake rupture and fault zone damage, prompt gravity signals, mechanics of induced seismicity
- Observational seismology: multitaper-MUSIC back-projection method for teleseismic rupture imaging, source inversion, seafloor Distributed Acoustic Sensing
- Computational seismology: spectral element method for dynamic rupture modeling
Professional preparation
- Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, B.S. Physics 1997
- U. Paris VII – Inst. de Physique du Globe de Paris, M.S. 1998
- U. Paris VII – Inst. de Physique du Globe de Paris, Ph.D. 2002
(Dissertation title: A physical and numerical study of earthquake nucleation. Advisor: J.-P. Vilotte)
Appointments
- 12/2017 - present Senior Researcher at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Excellence Chair at Université Côte d’Azur, Géoazur Laboratory
- 03/2016 - 12/2019 Professor, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of 05/2008-02/2016 : Technology Assistant Professor, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- 10/2007 - 03/2008 Visiting Research Fellow, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
- 01/2007 - 04/2008 Research Associate, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH 11/2004-12/2006: Zurich Post-doctoral Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich
- 10/2002 - 10/2004 Post-doctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
Awards and honors
- France and Latin America - Elected member of Société Philomathique de Paris (2024)
- Médaille d’Argent du CNRS (Silver Medal of CNRS, 2023)
- Médaille Université Côte d’Azur (2020, 2022, 2023)
- Fondation Del Duca grant awarded by Académie des Sciences (2021)
- American Geophysical Union Fellow (2020)
- Excellence Chair at Université Côte d’Azur IDEX UCA-JEDI
- 2014 IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lectureship
- 2014 Best Paper Award of the Seismological Society of Japan (paper [22]])
- 2011 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award
- Invited speaker at AGU, EGU, SSA, SIAM, SCEC, Earthscope, IRIS
