Experience and training

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**Research experience

Strong skills developed in numerical modeling and inverse problem solving for physical and geophysical problems.

– PhD project, Dec. 2015 - Nov. 2018, ISTerre, Université Grenoble Alpes, France.

  • Title: Eulerian approach of Hamilton–Jacobi equation with a Discontinuous Galerkin Method in heterogeneous anisotropic media. Application to seismic imaging.
  • Supervisors: Jean Virieux, Ludovic Métivier.
  • Grant: SEISCOPE consortium.
  • Key words: Seismic wave traveltime; Eikonal equation; Numerical modeling; discontinuous Galerkin methods; Seismic anisotropy; Seismic tomography; Kirchhoff migration.

– Master internship, July - Oct 2010, SAFEGE Research Department, Nanterre, France.

  • Title: Water leak detection and localization in a public drinking water supply.
  • Supervisor: Pierre-Antoine Jarrige.
  • Summary: Inside the research department of the firm of engineering consultants SAFEGE, I developed an inversion algorithm for detecting and locating a water leak or a burst in a drinking water network and I implemented it inside the in-house Piccolo software.

– Master Thesis, Jan. - June 2010, MINES ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France.

  • Title: New localization of earthquakes of the 1998 seismic crisis at Piton de la Fournaise volcano, La Réunion Island, France, using an Eikonal solver and a global search method.
  • Supervisors: Alexandrine Gesret, Hervé Chauris.
  • Key words: Seismic wave traveltime; Eikonal equation; Seismology; Volcanology.

– Master thesis, Apr. - July 2009, Universidad de Santiago de Chile.

  • Title: Tearing of precut thin elastic films.
  • Supervisor: Enrique Cerda.
  • Key words: Nonlinear physics; Tearing; Experimental design.

**Professional experience and skills

– Technical Manager at SAUR, Apr. 2011 - Nov. 2015, Vannes, France.
SAUR is a French firm with activities in water management: water and wastewater services, technology and infrastructure.

  • Main responsibilities: Head of cost reduction program for production plants and water networks in Loire-et-Vilaine business unit – 200k/year cost reduction. Change management: Involved in deployment of remote scheduling and monitoring of field operations. Project manager for the deployment of smart meters in Western France – planning, installation, field training, monitoring, reporting.
  • Skills: Project management, performance monitoring, cost optimization, budget management, business change management, with strong expertise in water treatment, water network monitoring and remote reading technology for smart water meters.

– Officer of the Watch in the French Navy, Oct. 2006 - Apr. 2007, Brest and Réunion Island, France.

  • Responsibilities: Officer of the watch, responsible for the safe navigation of the 94 meter-long French Navy warship Nivôse, with 90 crew members aboard plus a helicopter. Manager of the bridge team.
  • Skills: Ocean and coastal navigation, leadership, safety operations, military training.

**Scientific responsibilities, teaching and mentorship

– 2018. Participation to the French contest Ma Thèse en 180 secondes. I won the first jury prize and the audience award in Grenoble as well as in the national final.

– Sept. 2017 - Nov. 2018. Participation to the supervision of a starting PhD student, Marco Antonio Salcedo Arciniega.

– May 2016 - May 2018. PhD student representative at the Earth sciences Doctoral School.

– Sept. 2016 - Dec. 2017. Organisation of the weekly seminar for the SEISCOPE research team.

– 13 Apr. 2017. Participation to Les tribulations savantes, a science outreach event in Grenoble University.

– Fall 2016. Mentoring of one Master student for a numerical project at Université Grenoble Alpes.

– Jan. 2014 - Nov. 2015. I organized and carried out 20 training sessions for a total of 100 technicians of SAUR company on remote reading technology for smart water meters (theory and field training).

**Training

– Feb. - June 2018. Ma Thèse en 180 secondes, French contest. 25h+ training by a professional stage actor.

– 10-14 July 2017. TIDES Summer School on tomography, Oxford University.

– May 2017. MOOC Machine Learning by Stanford University on Coursera.

– Apr. 2017. Les Doctoriales 2017, Autrans, France. One-week summer school on professional development, innovation, and communication. The team I led won the award for best communication (15 min oral presentation).

– Feb. 2016. High resolution seismic imaging through full waveform inversion : from theory to practice. 35h training.

– Jan. - Mar. 2016. Scientific computing, parallel computing, and high performance computing. 54h training.