Curriculum

2025 – Present: Lecturer in Advanced Python Programming Applied to Geosciences University of
Bern/Institute of Geological Sciences, Bern, Switzerland.
2024 – Present: Researcher University of Bern/Institute of Geological Sciences, Switzerland.
2021 – 2023: Presidential Postdoctoral Research Associate. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
2019–2020: Lecturer at the Collège de France under Prof. Barbara Romanowicz.
2017–2020: Lecturer in Seismic Tomography at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. I prepared
practical classes and worked with Master’s students to show them how to compute synthetic seismograms
using normal-mode summation as well as spectral element method (SEM).
2016–2020: PhD candidate at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.
2011–2014: Research Associate at Mount Cameroon Volcano Observatory

Scientific Profile

I conducted seismic tomography during my Ph.D. at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) and later during my postdoctoral research at Princeton University (USA). I use seismic waves generated by earthquakes or active sources to image the Earth and investigate subsurface structure-like geothermal systems. My research also involves advanced signal processing, statistical analysis, and numerical modeling. I have strong expertise in computation, data processing, and data analysis. My ongoing project at the University of Bern (Switzerland) involves monitoring environmental processes such as submarine landslides, foehn-like strong wind, and flooding by integrating seismological observations with hydrodynamic and meteorological data. These datasets are collected using ocean-bottom seismometers, Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs), and weather stations. This research aims to monitor natural hazards using instruments deployed both in the marine environment (e.g., Lake Lucerne and Brienz) and on land. You can visit my Github page.

Research Projects

2024-Present Monitoring of slope failures and river-delta collapses (Lake Lucerne, Switzerland). Consists of using several sets of data collected from OBSs, hydrophones, Acoustic Doppler profilers (ADCP), repeated multibeam
bathymetry, and sediment core to monitor the Delta collapse in Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.
2021-2023 MERMAID (Mobile Earthquake Recording in Marine Areas by Independent Divers), consists of hydrophones installed in the Pacific Ocean around French Polynesia.
2016-2020 RHUM-RUM (Réunion Hotspot and Upper Mantle-Réunions Unterer Mantel), consists of ocean-bottom seismometers (OBSs) installed in the Indian Ocean around La Réunion.
2014 PRECASEM, lead by Paterson,Grant & Watson limited, Toronto
In this project, airborne geophysical data collected in central Africa were used to make a mining map of the latter area.

 

Research group Sediment Dynamics

Publication Year Type
2025 Best Researcher Award of Geothermal Energy & Applications
2021–2023 Presidential Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Princeton University
2016-2018 INSPIRE Fellowship (INterdiSciPlinarity & excellence for doctoral training of International REsearchers Paris)
2015-2016 French Government Scholarship
To fund my Master’s in Geophysics at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.
2017 Travel grant to attend TIDES (Time-Dependant Seismology) workshop, at the University of Oxford, UK.
2022 Travel grant to attend SAGE/GAGE Community Science Workshop in Pittsburgh, PA