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Personal Details

Benoît Tauzin

Nationality: French
Address: Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.021, 3508TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 3 02 53 51 35
Fax: +31 3 02 53 26 48
Email: benoit@geo.uu.nl

Current Position

2009 - present

Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Post-Doctoral Research (with J. trampert, Utrecht, and R.D. van der Hilst, MIT, USA): study of mantle seismic discontinuities.

Academic and Engineering Formation

2004 - 2009	EOST - IPGS, Université de Strasbourg (UDS), France PhD (promoted by E. Debayle and G. Wittlinger): global study of the mantle transition zone structure.
2004 - 2007	Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Teacher Training
2002 - 2004	Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (EOST), Strasbourg, France Engineer diploma in Geophysics (equivalent to a Master degree)
2002 - 2004	Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Master of Earth Sciences
2001 - 2002	Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Bachelor of Earth Sciences
1998 - 2001	Université de Bordeaux I, France University degree in Physics

Professional Experience

2008 September-December	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (EOST - IPGS), Strasbourg, France Assistant Engineer: Seismology, Mapping the depth of mantle transition zone seismic discontinuities.
2007 - 2008	Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Teaching Assistant at Bachelor and Master levels Geophysics: Rock Physics (Master), Geodesy, Gravimetry, Mineralogy, Planetary Thermodynamics. Computer Sciences: Lectures, programming with Matlab for Mathematics, Geodesy and Signal Processing. Practical, C-language programming.
2004 - 2007	Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Teaching Assistant at undergraduate level Geophysics: Geodesy, Gravimetry, Mineralogy, Planetary Thermodynamics. Computer Sciences: Matlab programming applied to Mathematics, Geodesy and Signal Processing.
2004 July-December	Compagnie Générale de Géophysique (CGGVeritas), Massy-Palaiseau, France Engineering internship (supervised by R.J. Garotta and P.Y. Granger): Application of a simulated annealing algorithm for P wave-form inversion.
2004 February-June	Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Research internship (supervised by G. Wittlinger): mantle transition zone structure under Afar from combined data of receiver functions and surface wave tomography.
2003 June	Instituto Geofisico del Peru - Centro Nacional de Datos Geofisicos, Lima, Peru Training period (supervised by J.H. Tavera): Estimation of the noise level on broad-band seismic stations of the National Peruvian Seismic Network.
2003 January- April	Service des Observatoires magnétique, IPGS - EOST, Strasbourg, France Job: Format conversion and quality control on observatory magnetic data.
2002 July	Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Training period (supervised by G. Marquis): Modelling of synthetic seismograms using a reflectivity method and petro-elastic data stemmed from diagraphies.

Publications

Full list available

Languages

French, English, Spanish

Contact

Address:

Department of Earth Sciences,
Utrecht University,
P.O. Box 80.021,
3508TA Utrecht,
The Netherlands

Telephone:

+31 3 02 53 51 35

Fax:

+31 3 02 53 26 48

Email:

benoit@geo.uu.nl