Curriculum Vitae

 

APPOINTMENTS
 
2013 - present   -     Associate professor                                           -     University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
2012 - 2013       -     Research engineer at CEA                               -     DISC, Saclay, France
2011 - 2012       -     Research assistant in biomedical Acoustics     -     Laboratoire d’Imagerie Paramétrique, Paris, France
2008 - 2011       -     Research assistant in acoustic imaging            -     University of Bristol, United Kingdom
2007 - 2008       -     Research and teaching associate                     -     Institute of Mechanics, Bordeaux, France
2004 - 2007       -     PhD student and teaching associate                -     Institute of Mechanics, Bordeaux, France

EDUCATION

2007       -       Habilitation à diriger les recherches (HDR), Université Grenoble Alpes, France
2007       -       PhD of the Université de Bordeaux, France, speciality Physical Acoustics
2004       -       Masters degree of the Université de Poitiers, France, speciality Aeroacoustics
2002       -       Licence degree of the Université de Poitiers, France, speciality Mechanics

HONORS

2013 - 2018       -       CNRS Chaire d’Excellence Fellowship

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Ludovic Moreau is a researcher in the field of wave physics, with a strong background in ultrasonics and geophysics.

He conducted his PhD at the University of Bordeaux from 2004 to 2007, under the supervision of Michel Castaings. He developed a combined numerical-analytical hybrid method for efficient modeling of the interaction between ultrasonic guided waves and heterogeneities in composite materials. Ten years later, this approach has become a useful tool in the filed of Non-destructive Testing (NDT) and is implemented, for example, in CEA’s CIVA Software (http://www-civa.cea.fr/en/).

After his PhD, Ludovic Moreau was appointed for a post-doc position at the University of Bristol (United Kingdom) in the Ultrasonic and Non-destructive Testing group. There, he worked from 2008 to 2011 with Paul Wilcox and Bruce Drinkwater (team leader) on advanced imaging algorithms using ultrasonic phased arrays.

From 2011 to 2012, he was appointed for another post-doc position with Pascal Laugier in the field of medical Acoustics in the Laboratoire d’Imagerie Biomédicale at University Paris 6 (France). The post-doc concerned the propagation of ultrasonic guided waves in the human radius to evaluate the mechanical properties of cortical bone. This work was conducted in the context of a startup creation, and a patent was deposited.

From 2012 to 2013, he was appointed a research engineer at CEA-LIST (Saclay, France), where he supervised several NDT-related industrial projects.

In September 2013, Ludovic Moreau was appointed a full-time associate professor in the Wave and Structures group, at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre in Grenoble (France). His current research activities concern the propagation of acoustic and elastic waves in complex media, at scales ranging from the mm (ultrasonic waves) to the km (seismic waves). In particular, he works on the development of methods based on dense arrays for high-sensitivity measurements (direct problem), and high-resolution imaging (inverse problem).

Since 2018, Ludovic Moreau has focused more specifically on sea ice. In order to address the challenges of global warming, he is developing methods to extract rheological parameters from the pack ice that will feed the new generation of models to predict its dynamic response to geophysical forcing. He started with ANR project Icewaveguide project (JCJC, 2018-2023), during which he developed passive methods for monitoring its thickness and rheological properties. He is now continuing with ANR project Multiscale Sea Ice Monitoring project (PRC, 2024-2028), to study the fracturing of the ice pack ice by waves in the marginal ice zone. This research is being carried out with national (ESPCI, Paris) and international collaborations : Helsinki Institute of Seismology, (Finland), Takuvik and Institut des Sciences de la Mer de Rimouski (Canada).

GRANTED PATENTS
2013 - Procédé et dispositif ultrasonores pour représenter la propagation d’ondes ultrasonores dans un guide d’épaisseur linéairement variable (Process and methods for representing the propagation of ultrasonic waves in a waveguide with linearly varying thickness), french patent #1357204