2015-PRESENT
– Year 2024 Langlais, M., G Janex, P Guéguen, A. Helmstetter, A. Paul, J Virieux, E Maufroy and J.-N. Bouvier, The catalogue of 1987–2023 earthquakes in the western (French) Alps North of 43.5°N, (…)
Lire la suiteJean Virieux, Fellow of Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and Emeritus professor at the Univ. Grenoble Alpes and former junior and senior member at the Institut Universitaire de France, is a seismologist working at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre).
He has received a PhD degree on "Earthquakes: rupture and waves" in 1986 at the University Denis Diderot-Paris.
His research is oriented to seismic wave propagation modeling through field experiments and theoretical modeling in heterogeneous media. Travel-time tomographies based on ray theory or full waveform inversion based on volumetric numerical methods solving elastodynamic equations allow high-resolution imaging of crustal structures (Mt Vesuve/Italy; Corinth Gulf/Greece; Vallhall/Norway).
Multi-parametric reconstruction from 3D important databases is the current challenge of the different engineers and researchers of the consortium SEISCOPE supported by many industrial entreprises. With Stéphane Operto, he has launched this consortium in 2005. Nowadays this consortium has Romain Brossier and Ludovic Métivier as principal investigators.
Seismic dynamic rupture imaging related to earthquakes has also attracted his attention since his thesis with dedicated PhD projects supported by European funds.