Clément Hibert

Summary

Personal Information

Position : Physicien Adjoint (Associate Professor)

Affiliations :
UMR 7063 - Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg
UMS 830 - Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre
5 rue René Descartes, 67084 STRASBOURG Cedex, France

Observatory :  OMIV

Research Interests

Environmental Seismology

  • Seismic observation of surface processes and non-tectonic sources (landslides, debris flows, glaciers, icequakes, volcanic activity, and mass movements)
  • Physics-based interpretation of seismic sources and coupling between solid Earth and surface dynamics
  • Broadband and dense sensing approaches, including Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS)

Exotic Seismic Source Characterization

  • Force inversion and reconstruction of source dynamics
  • Linking seismic waveforms to physical properties of gravitational processes
  • Multi-band signal analysis and physical parameter estimation

Machine Learning and Data-Driven Seismology

  • Machine learning and deep learning for detection, classification, and characterization of seismic signals
  • Hybrid physics–machine learning approaches and physics-informed models
  • Large-scale analysis of continuous seismic datasets and discovery of emerging signal classes

Gravitational Processes and Natural Hazards

  • Dynamics of landslides, rockfalls, debris flows, and glacier-related processes
  • Spatio-temporal reconstruction of mass-movement activity
  • Influence of environmental forcings (climate variability, hydrology, tectonics)

Volcanic Processes

  • Gravitational instabilities in volcanic environments (collapses, rockfalls, lahars)

  • Eruptive tremor and long-duration seismic signals

     

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Positions

  • September 2018 – : Physicien Adjoint (Associate Professor), Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. 
  • January 2016 – August 2018 : Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. 
  • February 2013 – April 2015 : Post-Doctoral fellow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, New York, USA.
  • January 2009 – September 2012 : Ph.D. candidate, Institut du Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Paris, France.

Education

  • 2012 : Ph.D. in Seismology, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, under the supervision of Anne Mangeney and Gilles Grandjean. Title : "Seismic monitoring of rockfalls  at Piton de la Fournaise Volcano, la Réunion Island", pp 197.
  • 2008 : EOST, Strasbourg – Degree in Geophysical engineering
  • 2006-2007 : Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg – Master 1 in Geophysics
  • 2003-2006 : Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg – Bachelor in Science of Earth and Universe

Projects

  • 2017 – 2018 :  INSU Tellus Aleas CT3 « Détection automatique des instabilités gravitaires à partir de données sismologiques continues » / AO2017- 1021364 – P.I.
  • 2018 – 2020 : IDEX Unistra RECO – P.I.
  • 2021 – 2025 : ANR JCJC HighLand – P.I.
  • 2025 – 2029 : ANR PRC M2-BDA – WP leader
  • 2025 - 2029 : ANR JCJC OMENS (P.I. Thibaut Barreyre)
  • 2025 - 2029 : ANR JCJC HARMONIE (P.I. Lise Retailleau)
  • 2026 : IDEX Unistra "Prix Espoirs de l'Université de Strasbourg"
  • 2026 - 2029 : Horizon-Infra-EOSC GenAI4Earth - Task Leader

 

 

Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kvDprOYAAAAJ&hl=en

* last update 16/02/2026 *

— In press

[P47] Groult, C., C. Hibert, J.-P. Malet., Twenty-Three Years of Landslide Activity in the European Alps - Part 2: Investigating Triggers and the Impacts of Meteorological Change on Landslide Occurrences. in press

[P46]  Groult, C., C. Hibert, J.-P. Malet., F. Provost, A. Lomax, Landslide Activity in the European Alps - Part 1: A Machine Learning Based Instrumental Catalog from the Analysis of Seismological Data. in press

— Published

[P45] Huynh, C., Rimpot, J., Hibert, C., Turquet, A., Stangeland, T., Malet, J. P., & Lanticq, V. (2025). Unsupervised Learning for the Comprehensive Exploration of Continuous‐DAS Data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, 2(4), e2025JH001054. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JH001054

[P44] Rimpot, J., Hibert, C., Malet, J. P., Forestier, G., & Weber, J. (2025). Self‐supervised learning based clustering workflow for exploring seismological data from dense networks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, 2(4), e2025JH000958. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JH000958

[P43] Jiang, J., Murray, D., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Hibert, C., Pytharouli, S., & Malet, J. P. (2025). A human-on-the-loop approach for labelling seismic recordings from landslide site via a multi-class deep-learning based classification model. Science of Remote Sensing, 11, 100189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2024.100189

[P42] Hibert, C., Groult, C. & Malet, JP. Seismogenic landslides volume and runout estimation with machine learning.(2025). Landslides22, 2801–2808 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-025-02496-w 

[P41] Zhou, Q., Tang, H., Hibert, C., Chmiel, M., Walter, F., Dietze, M., & Turowski, J. M. (2025). Enhancing debris flow warning via machine learning feature reduction and model selection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 130(4), e2024JF008094. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JF00809

[P40] C Huynh, C Hibert, C Jestin, J -P Malet, V Lanticq, A real scale application of a novel set of spatial and similarity features for detection and classification of natural seismic sources from distributed acoustic sensing data (2024). Geophysical Journal International, Volume 240, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 462–482, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae382

[P39] Rimpot, J., Hibert, C., Retailleau, L., Saurel, J. M., Malet, J. P., Forestier, G., Weber, J., Stangeland, T.S., Turquet, A. & Pelleau, P. (2024). Self-supervised learning of seismological data reveals new eruptive sequences at the Mayotte submarine volcano. Geophysical Journal International, ggae361. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae361

[P38] K. Svennevig, S. P. Hicks, T. Forbriger, T. Lecocq, R. Widmer-Schnidrig, A. Mangeney, C. Hibert, N. J. Korsgaard, A. Lucas, C. Satriano, R. E. Anthony, A. Mordret, S. Schippkus, S. Rysgaard, W. Boone, S. J. Gibbons, K. L. Cook, S. Glimsdal, F. Løvholt, K. Van Noten, J. D. Assink, A. Marboeuf, A. Lomax, K. Vanneste, T. Taira, M. Spagnolo, R. De Plaen, P. Koelemeijer, C. Ebeling, A. Cannata, W. D. Harcourt, D. G. Cornwell, C. Caudron, P. Poli, P. Bernard, E. Larose, E. Stutzmann, P. H. Voss, B. Lund, F. Cannavo, M. J. Castro-Díaz, E. Chaves, T. Dahl-Jensen, N. De Pinho Dias, A. Déprez, R. Develter, D. Dreger, L. G. Evers, E. D. Fernández-Nieto, A. M. G. Ferreira, G. Funning, A.-A. Gabriel, M. Hendrickx, A. L. Kafka, M. Keiding, J. Kerby, S. A. Khan, A. K. Dideriksen, O. D. Lamb, T. B. Larsen, B. Lipovsky, I. Magdalena, J.-P. Malet, M. Myrup, L. Rivera, E. Ruiz-Castillo, S. Wetter, B. Wirtz. (2024). A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth for 9 days. Science, 385(6714), 1196-1205. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adm9247

[P37] Hibert, C., Noël, F., Toe, D., Talib, M., Desrues, M., Wyser, E., Brenguier, O., Bourrier, F., Toussaint, R., Malet, J.-P. & Jaboyedoff, M. (2024). Machine learning prediction of the mass and the velocity of controlled single-block rockfalls from the seismic waves they generate. Earth Surface Dynamics, 12(3), 641-656. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-641-2024

[P36]  Pirot, E., Hibert, C., & Mangeney, A. (2024). Enhanced glacial earthquake catalogues with supervised machine learning for more comprehensive analysis. Geophysical Journal International, 236(2), 849-871. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad402

[P35] Durand, V., Mangeney, A., Bernard, P., Jia, X., Bonilla, F., Satriano, C., Saurel, J.-M., El Madani A, Pletier A., Ferrazzini V., Kowalski P., Lauret F., Brunet C. & Hibert C. (2023). Repetitive small seismicity coupled with rainfall can trigger large slope instabilities on metastable volcanic edifices. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 383. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00996-y

[P34] Provost, F., Zigone, D., Le Meur, E., Malet, J. P., & Hibert, C. (2023). Surface dynamics and history of the calving cycle of the Astrolabe glacier (Antarctica) derived from optical imagery. EGUsphere, 2023, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-736

[P33]  Liao, W. Y., Lee, E. J., Wang, C. C., Chen, P., Provost, F., Hibert, C., Malet, J.-P., Chu, C.-R. & Lin, G. W. (2023). RockNet: Rockfall and earthquake detection and association via multitask learning and transfer learning. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3284008

[P32] Domel, P., Hibert, C., Schlindwein, V., & Plaza-Faverola, A. (2023). Event recognition in marine seismological data using Random Forest machine learning classifier. Geophysical Journal International, ggad244. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad244

[P31] Abi Nader, A., Albaric, J., Steinmann, M., Hibert, C., Malet, J. P., Sue, C., ... & Boetsch, A. (2023). Machine learning prediction of groundwater heights from passive seismic wavefield. Geophysical Journal International, 234(3), 1807-1818. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad160

[P30] Bachelet, V., Mangeney, A., Toussaint, R., de Rosny, J., Arran, M. I., Farin, M., & Hibert, C. (2023). Acoustic emissions of nearly steady and uniform granular flows: A proxy for flow dynamics and velocity fluctuations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128(4), e2022JF006990. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JF006990

[P29] Noël, F., S. F. Nordang, M. Jaboyedoff, J. Travelletti, B. Matasci, M. Digout, M.-H. Derron, A. Caviezel, C. Hibert, D. Toe, M. Talib, E. Wyser, F. Bourrier, R. Toussaint, J.-P. Malet, J. Locat (2023). Highly energetic rockfalls: back analysis of the 2015 event from the Mel de la Niva, Switzerland. Landslides, 1-22. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10346-023-02054-2

[P28] Noël, F., Jaboyedoff, M., Caviezel, A., Hibert, C., Bourrier, F., & Malet, J. P. (2022). Rockfall trajectory reconstruction: A flexible method utilizing video footage and high-resolution terrain models. Earth Surface Dynamics Discussions, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-2022-16

[P27] Huynh, C., Hibert, C., Jestin, C., Malet, J. P., Clément, P., & Lanticq, V. (2022). Real‐time classification of anthropogenic seismic sources from distributed acoustic sensing data: Application for pipeline monitoring. Seismological Society of America, 93(5), 2570-2583. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220078

[P26] Renouard, A., Maggi, A., Grunberg, M., Doubre, C., & Hibert, C. (2021). Toward False Event Detection and Quarry Blast versus Earthquake Discrimination in an Operational Setting Using Semiautomated Machine Learning. Seismological Society of America, 92(6), 3725-3742.

[P25] Kuehnert, Julian, A. Mangeney, Y. Capdeville, J.-P. Métaxian, L. Bonilla, E. Stutzmann, E Chaljub, P. Boissier, C. Brunet, P. Kowalski, F. Lauret, C. Hibert (2020). Simulation of Topography Effects on Rockfall‐Generated Seismic Signals: Application to Piton de la Fournaise Volcano. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 125.10. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019874

[P24] Chmiel, M., Walter, F., Wenner, M., Zhang, Z., Brian W, M., & Hibert, C. (2020). Machine Learning improves warning systems of debris flows. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(3), e2020GL090874. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090874

[P23] Wenner, M., Hibert, C., Meier, L., & Walter, F. (2020). Near Real-Time Automated Classification of Seismic Signals of Slope Failures with Continuous Random Forests. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 1-23. doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2020-200

[P22] A. Perttu, C. Caudron, J.D. Assink, D. Metz, D. Tailpied, B. Perttu, C. Hibert, D. Nurfiani, C. Pilger, M. Muzli, D. Fee, O.L. Andersen, B. Taisne, (2020). Reconstruction of the 2018 tsunamigenic flank collapse and eruptive activity at Anak Krakatau based on eyewitness reports, seismo-acoustic and satellite observations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 541, 116268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116268

[P21] Hibert, C., D. Michéa, F. Provost, J.-P. Malet, M. Geertsema (2019), 20 years of landside activity in Alaska from automated machine-learning based seismic detection., Geophysical Journal International, 219(2), 1138-1147. doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz354

[P20] Dufresne, A., Wolken, G. J., Hibert, C., Bessette-Kirton, E. K., Coe, J. A., Geertsema, M., & Ekström, G. (2019). The 2016 Lamplugh rock avalanche, Alaska: deposit structures and emplacement dynamics. Landslides, 1-19. doi.org/10.1007/s10346-019-01225-4

[P19] Provost, F., C. Hibert, J.-P. Malet, A. Helmstetter, D. Amitrano, M. Radiguet, G. Le Roy, N. Langet, J. Gomberg, N. Rosser, C. Abanco, C. Levy, M. Hurlimann, T. Lebourg, M. Vidal, B. Vial (2018). Typology of landslide seismic sources, Earth surface dynamics, 6(4), 1059-1088. doi: 10.5194/esurf-6-1059-201

[P18] Durand, V., A. Mangeney, F. Haas, F., J. Xiaoping, A. Peltier, C. Hibert, V. Ferrazzini, P. Kowalski, F. Lauret, C. Brunet, C. Satriano, K. Wegner, A. Delorme, L. Bonilla, N. Villneuve. On the link between external forcings and slope instabilities in the Piton de la Fournaise summit crater, Reunion Island (2018).  J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surface. doi.org/10.1029/2017JF004507

[P17] Hibert, C., J.-P.  Malet, F. Bourrier, F. Provost, F. Berger, P. Bornemann, P. Tardif & E. Mermin (2017). Single-block rockfall dynamics inferred from seismic signal analysis. Earth Surface Dynamics, 5(2), 283. doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-283-2017

[P16] Maggi, A., V. Ferrazzini, C. Hibert, F. Beauducel, P. Boissier & A. Amemoutou (2017). Implementation of a multistation approach for automated event classification at Piton de la Fournaise volcano. Seismological Research Letters, 88(3), 878-891. doi:10.1785/0220160189

[P15] Hibert, C., F. Provost, J.-P. Malet, A. Maggi, A. Stumpf & V. Ferrazzini. (2017). Automatic identification of rockfalls and volcano-tectonic earthquakes at the Piton de la Fournaise volcano using a Random Forest algorithm. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 340, 130-14. doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.04.015

[P14] Hibert, C., G. Ekström, and C. P. Stark (2017). The relationship between bulk-mass momentum and short-period seismic radiation in catastrophic landslides, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surface, 122, 1201–1215, doi:10.1002/2016JF004027. 

[P13] Hibert, C., A. Mangeney, G. Grandjean, A. Peltier, N.M. Shapiro, V. Ferrazzini, A. DiMuro, V. Durand, P. Boissier and T. Staudacher (2017).Spatio-temporal evolution of rockfall activity from 2007 to 2011 at the Piton de la Fournaise volcano inferred from seismic data. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 333, 36-52. doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.01.007

[P12] F. Provost, C. Hibert, J.-P. Malet, Automatic classification of endogenous landslide seismicity using the Random Forest supervised classifier (2017). Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 1, 113-120. doi: 10.1002/2016GL070709

[P11] Farin, M., A. Mangeney, R. Toussaint, J. De Rosny, N. Shapiro, T. Dewez, C. Hibert, C. Mathon, O. Sedan, F. Berger (2015). Characterization of rockfalls from seismic signal: insights from laboratory experiments, J. Geophys. Res. – Solid Earth, 120 (10), 7102–7137. doi: 10.1002/2015JB012331

[P10] Lévy, C., A. Mangeney, F. Bonilla, C. Hibert, E.S. Calder, P.J. Smith. Friction weakening in granular flows deduced from seismic records at the Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat volcano (2015). J. Geophys. Res.  – Solid Earth, 120(11), 7536-7557. doi: 10.1002/2015JB012151

[P9] Hibert, C., A. Mangeney, M. Polacci, V. Ferrazzini, A. Dimuro, S. Vergniolle, A. Peltier, G. Grandjean, T. Dewez, B. Taisne, M. Burton, T. Staudacher, F. Brenguier, A. Dupont, P. Kowalski, P. Boissier, P. Catherine, F. Lauret. Towards continuous quantification of lava extrusion rate: results from the multidisciplinary analysis of the 2 January 2010 eruption of Piton de la Fournaise volcano, La Réunion (2015). J. Geophys. Res. - Solid Earth., 120.  doi: 10.1002/2014JB011769

[P8] J. Zhao, L. Moretti, A. Mangeney, E. Stutzmann, H. Kanamori, Y. Capdeville, E. S. Calder, C. Hibert, P.J. Smith, P. Cole, and A. LeFriant (2015). Model space exploration for determining landslide source history from long period seismic data. Pure and Applied Geophysic, 1–25. doi:10.1007/s00024-014-0852-5

[P7] Hibert, C., C.P. Stark and G. Ekström.Seismology of the Oso-Steelhead landslide (2015). Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 2 (12), 7309–7327. doi:10.5194/nhessd-2-7309-2014

[P6] Hibert, C., G. Ekström and C.P. Stark (2014). Dynamics of the Bingham Canyon mine landslides from broadband signal analysis. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 4535–4541. doi: 10.1002/2014GL060592

[P5] Hibert, C.,  A. Mangeney, G. Grandjean, C. Baillard, D. Rivet, W. Crawford, N.M. Shapiro, C. Satriano, A. Maggi, P. Boissier and V. Ferrazzini (2014). Automated identification, location and volume estimation of rockfalls at Piton de la Fournaise volcano. J. Geophys. Res. - Earth Surface., 119, 1082–1105. doi: 10.1002/2013JF002970

[P4] Baillard, C., W. Crawford, V. Ballu, C. Hibert and A. Mangeney (2014). Automatic P-S phase picking procedure based on Kurtosis: Vanuatu region case study. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 104, 1. doi: 10.1785/0120120347

[P3] Hibert, C.,  G. Grandjean, A. Bitri, J. Travelletti and J-P. Malet. (2012). Geophysical data fusion for characterizing landslides: case of the La Valette landslide (France). Engineering Geology, 128, 23–29. doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2011.05.001

[P2] Hibert, C.,  A. Mangeney , G. Grandjean and N.M. Shapiro (2011). Slopes instabilities in the Dolomieu crater, la Réunion island : from the seismic signal to the rockfalls characteristics. J. Geophys. Res. - Earth Surface, 116, F04032. doi: 10.1029/2011JF002038

[P1] G. Grandjean, C. Hibert, F. Mathieu, J. Travelletti, J.-P. Malet and E. Garel (2009). Hydrological properties determination and waterflows monitoring in mudslides from geophysical data fusion based on a fuzzy logic approach. Comptes Rendus Geosciences, 341, 10, 937–948. doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2009.08.003