Curriculum

2017

 

 

 

2017/6 months

 

 

 

 

2015/2 years

 

 

 

2014/6months

 

 

 

2011-12/

6 months

 

 

 

 

 

 

2010/

6 months

 

 

 

 

 

 

2010/

4 months

 

 

 

 

 

2009/

6 months

 

 

 

2008-09/

5 months

 

 

2008/

6 weeks

Chargé de Recherches (IRD)

 

 

 

Research Associate (Colorado School of Mines)

Interoperable design of extreme-scale application software (IDEAS project): Continental US & Continental West-Africa (CONUS & CONWA) hyperresolution ParFlow-CLM simulations.

 

Post-doc (CNES)

Potential of high spatial resolution in thermal infra-red for the identification of specific hydrological signatures in sudanian area of West-Africa

 

Post-doc (Labex G-EAU-THERMIE)

Development of a GUI-based software for the processing of micro-gravity data: Python-based object-oriented programming.

 

Field missions

within the GHYRAF (Gravity and Hydrology in Africa) project.

Gravity: data acquisition with absolute (FG5) and relative (CG5) gravity meters.

Hydrology: Infiltrometry, drillings, hydrological monitoring (neutron probes, water table levels).

Geodesy: DGPS and leveling.

 

Internship as Geophysical Engineer (IRD):

Modeling the poroelastic effects of underground flows around the Bagara station (near Diffa -east Niger).

Transient hydrodynamic modeling (ModFlow). Modeling the clay swelling behavior and its influence on gravity records. Hydrogeology. Field work: setting up of water table measurement devices and data acquisition protocols in remote areas.

 

Internship as MSc in Geophysics (EOST):

Towards detection and high resolution location of regional earthquakes using continuous waveforms.

Object-oriented programming of automatic picking algorithms of seismic phases on pre-located events with a continuous waveform correlation approach. Seismology.

 

 Internship as MSc in Geophysics (C.U.):

High frequency image analysis for the study of energy transfers during grain crushing experiments. Application to debris flows. Energy budget computation and image analysis.

 

 Internship as MSc in Geophysics (INECOL):

GIS mapping and study of a 10 km3 landslide in the La Concepcion valley, Xalapa, Mexico.

 

 Internship as MSc in Geophysics (KUIC):

Risk study on a potential GLOF (Glacial Lake Outburst Flood) in a touristic valley in Nepal: application to the Imja glacial lake in the Khumbu area.

 

2011-2014

 

 

 

 

 

2009-2011

 

 

 

 

2009-2011

 

 

 

 

2004-2007

 

 

2004

 

 

Ph.D.: " Multi-scale hydrogeophysical caracterisation and water storage dynamics in a hardrock basement catchment of a sudanian area (Benin): contribution from gravimetry ".

 

Supervisors: J. Hinderer (EOST/CNRS) & L. Séguis (HSM/IRD).

 

Engineering school diploma : Seismic exploration, hydrogeophysics, hydrology, rock mechanics, georadar, geo-magnetism, mathematics, basics in programming (Matlab, C language), inverse methods, statistics, reservoir modeling, signal processing

 

MSc. in geophysics : “Geosciences, environment and natural hazards”: Hydrogeophysics, gravimetry, seismology, hydrology, rock mechanics, georadar, geo-magnetism, tectonics, ...

 

Licence (three-year university degree, eq BSC) in Earth sciences: Geophysics, Geology, Sedimentology, mathematics, Physics, Chemistry...

 

Baccalauréat (French secondary school diploma), with Earth Sciences major