Personal details

CHRISTOPHE ZAROLI

Maître de conférences (hors classe, HDR)

Université de Strasbourg, EOST, ITES, UMR 7063

Nationality: French
Family: Dad of two (lovely) daughters :-)
Research: Seismic tomography
Work address: 5 rue René Descartes
67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
Office: G107
Email: c.zaroli[at]unistra.fr
Webhttps://ites.unistra.fr/zaroli

Professional and research experience

Some recent news

2025  RIPEC (Award for Doctoral Training and Research Works)
2023  Promoted to maître de conférences 'hors classe'
2021  Invited Lecturer at "Le Collège de France" (Paris) - Watch my talk:  Global SOLA tomography.
2021  PEDR (Award for Doctoral Training and Research Works)
2021  Habilitation (HDR) - Title: "Seismic tomography using SOLA-Backus-Gilbert inversion
2017  Research sabbatical (CRCT, CNU, sect. 35, Feb-Jul 2017) at Oxford University

Employment

2011-  Maître de Conférences, Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (Strasbourg, France).
2010-2011  Postdoctoral Fellow and Teaching assistant, Geoazur (Nice/Sophia-Antipolis university).
2009-2010  Teaching assistant, Strasbourg University.
2006  Six months Internship R&D Geophysics department WesternGeco-Schlumberger, Gatwick (UK).

Education

2021 Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), University of Strasbourg
2010  PhD in Global Seismology (Strasbourg University / Australian National University).
Co-supervisors: Eric Debayle (Strasbourg-Lyon), Malcolm Sambridge (Canberra).
2006  Geophysicist Engineer, EOST (Strasbourg, France).
2006  MSc in Geophysics, EOST (Strasbourg, France).

Key words

- Seismic tomography  (finite-frequency wave propagation...)
- Inverse theory  (SOLA-Backus-Gilbert inversion...)
- Deep Earth imaging  (whole-mantle, 3-D velocity structure...)

Awards/Distinctions

2025  RIPEC (Prime d'Encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche)
2023  Promotion : maître de conférences 'hors classe'
2021  PEDR (Prime d'Encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche)
2021  Invited Lecturer at "Le Collège de France"
2017  CRCT (CNU - section 35), "research sabbatical" at Oxford University
2011  Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research (Prix de thèse)
2005  The SHELL Personal Development Award

Some professional Activities

2012-  In charge of the first year of EOST (geophycial engineering school)
2011-  Organiser of the "Sismo Club", weekly Seismology meetings on IPGS
2008-2009  Organiser, seminar series on IPGS.
2008- I've been a regular reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals, e.g.:
Journal of Computational and Applied MathematicsGephysical Research LettersGeophysical Journal International, Journal of Geophysical ResearchEarth and Planetary Science LettersGEOPHYSICSJournal of Seismology, Seismica...
2020- Expert remote reviewer for ERC consolidator grants (Earth System Science)

And many other things (not listed here).

Languages

French, English