Education and Degrees Research experience (October 1997-)

Curriculum Vitae : Olivier Verhoeven, Associate Professor in Geophysics.
Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, UMR - CNRS 6112
Université de Nantes, 2 Rue de la Houssinière, B.P. 92208, 44322 Nantes cedex, France
e-mail : [email protected]
tel office : +33/2.76.64.51.54
Education and Degrees
PhD
1997 - 2001
PhD in Physical Sciences at Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL),
Belgium (October 2001). Thesis subject : “Study of discrete symmetries in
two dimensional conformal theories”- Advisor : Professor P. Ruelle. Mention : Plus Grande Distinction.
Master’s Degree
1996 - 1997
DEA (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) in Physics at UCL. Report subject :
“Minimal wavelets, conformal theories and electromagnetic diffusion”- Supervisors : Professors J-P. Antoine et P. Ruelle.
Graduate level
1992 - 1996
Licence in Physics at Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (Namur University), Belgium. Thesis subject : “A new algorithm for the transmission of electromagnetic energy through tridimensional structures” - Advisor : Professor J-P. Vigneron. Results : Plus Grande Distinction.
Research experience (October 1997-)
Applied
research
Assistant Professor at Nantes University (September 2008 - ) : study of
internal structure of Earth-like planets, stochastic inversion of geophysical
data, . . . .
Belspo Action 1 contrat at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (January
2007 - September 2008) : study of internal structure of Earth-like planets :
Moon seismology, electromagnetic induction, . . . .
Research associate at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (October 2006 December 2006) : study of internal structure of Earth-like planets by stochastic inversion of geophysical data.
FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique) Scientific Research
Worker at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (October 2005-September
2006) : study of internal structure of the Earth’s lower mantle and modelling
of the interiors of Mercury and the Moon.
Belspo Action 1 contrat at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (September
2005) : interaction planet-fluid layers : effects on planetary rotation.
Marie Curie RTN postdoctoral position at Laboratoire de Planétologie
et Géodynamique (LPG), Nantes University, France (September 2003August 2005) : study of internal structure of the Earth and Mars by joint
inversion of geophysical data. Study of minerals electrical conductivity.
Research associate at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (October 2001August 2003) : development of the synergy between three scientific experiments of the Netlander spatial mission. Study of Mars’ internal structure.
Fundamental
research
UCL Research Assistant (October 1997 - September 1998), IISN Researcher (October 1998 - September 1999), FNRS Scientific Research Worker
(October 1999 - September 2001) : study of two dimensional conformal field
theories.
Publications
Articles
“Electrical conductivity of the Earth’s mantle from the first
Swarm magnetic field measurements.”, F. Civet, E. Thébault, O.
Verhoeven, B. Langlais , D. Saturnino, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42,
doi :10.1002/2015GL063397, 2015.
“A Bayesian approach to infer radial models of temperature and
anisotropy in the transition zone from surface wave dispersion
curves.”, M. Drilleau, É. Beucler, A. Mocquet, O. Verhoeven, G.
Moebs, G. Burgos, J.-P. Montagner, P. Vacher, Geophys. J. Int., 195,
doi : 10.1093/gji/ggt284, 2013.
“Geodesy constraints on the interior structure and composition of
Mars.”, A. Rivoldini, T. Van Hoolst, O. Verhoeven, A. Mocquet, V.
Dehant, Icarus, 213, doi : 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.03.024, 2011.
“The deep interior of Venus, Mars and the Earth : a brief review
and the need for planetary surface-based measurements.”, A. Mocquet, P. Rosenblatt, V. Dehant, O. Verhoeven, Planet. Space Sci., 59,
doi :10.1016/j.pss.2010.02.002, 2011.
“The interior structure of Mercury and its core sulfur
content.”, A. Rivoldini, T. Van Hoolst, O. Verhoeven, Icarus,
201, doi :10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.020, 2009.
“Electrical conductivity of Mercury : implication on composition
and formation.”, O. Verhoeven, P. Tarits, P. Vacher, A. Rivoldini,
T. Van Hoolst, Planet. Space Sci., 57, doi :10.1016/j.pss.2008.11.015,
2009.
“Constraints on thermal state and composition of the Earth’s lower mantle from electromagnetic impedances and seismic data.”.
O. Verhoeven, A. Mocquet, P. Vacher, A. Rivoldini, M. Menvielle, P-A.
Arrial, G. Choblet, P. Tarits, V. Dehant, and T. Van Hoolst, J. Geophys.
Res., 114, B03302, doi :10.1029/2008JB005678, 2009.
“Mercury’s interior structure, rotation, and tides”. T. Van Hoolst, F.
Sohl, I. Holin, O. Verhoeven, V. Dehant, and T. Spohn, Space Science
series of ISSI ’Mercury’, Space Science Reviews, SPAC-S-06-00042,
doi :10.1007/s11214-007-9202-6, 2007.
“Planetary Magnetic Dynamo Effect on Atmospheric Protection of
Early Earth and Mars”. V. Dehant, H. Lammer, Y. Kulikov, J.M.
Griessmeier, D. Breuer, O. Verhoeven, Ö. Karatekin, T. Van Hoolst,
O. Korablev, and P. Lognonné, Proc. ISSI workshop on ’Geology
and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets’, Bern, Switzerland, September 2005, Special Issue of Space Science Reviews, SPAC-S-06-00042,
doi :10.1007/s11214-007-9163-9, 2007.
“Modelling the electrical conductivity of iron-rich minerals for planetary applications”. P. Vacher, O. Verhoeven, Planet. Space Sci., 55,
doi :10.1016/j.pss.2006.10.003, 2007.
Publications
Articles (continued)
“Interior structure of terrestrial planets. Modelling Mars’ mantle
and its electromagnetic, geodetic and seismic properties”. O. Verhoeven, A. Rivoldini, P. Vacher, A. Mocquet, G. Choblet, M. Menvielle, V. Dehant, T. Van Hoolst, J. Sleewaegen, J.-P. Barriot, and P. Lognonné, J. Geophys. Res., 110, E04009, doi :10.1029/2004JE002271,
2005.
“Non-periodic Ishibashi states : the su(2) and su(3) affines theories” . P. Ruelle, O. Verhoeven, Nucl Phys. B 633 (2002) 345 - 364.
“On Discrete Symmetries in su(2) and su(3) Affines Theories and
Related Graphs”. S. Liénart, P. Ruelle, O. Verhoeven, Nucl Phys.
B 592 (2001) 479 - 511.
“Discrete symmetries of unitary minimal conformal theories”. P.
Ruelle, O. Verhoeven, Nucl Phys. B 535 (1998) 650 - 680.
Meetings and presentations
Meetings
2015, EPSC, Nantes, France, September 27th - October 2nd. Participation.
2011, EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting, Nantes, France, October 2-7th. Participation.
2009, SELENE-2 SEIS team meeting, ISAS, Tokyo, Japan, November 2227th. Participation and presentation of the talk “ Internal structure of the Moon
from the inversion of geophysical data”.
2009, French Lunar Science Institute kick-off meeting, IPGP, Paris,
France, May 29th. Participation and presentation of the talk “ Interior structure and composition of the Moon”.
2009, New Views on the Earth’s Interior, London, United Kingdom, February 12-13th. Participation and presentation of the poster “ New constraints
on thermal state and composition of the Earth’s lower mantle from joint inversion of electromagnetic impedances and seismic data”.
2006, SEDI Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, July 9-14th Participation.
2006, First SWARM Science Meeting, Nantes, France, May 3-5th. Participation.
2006, Meeting “Mars Dialogue”, Berlin, Germany, February 8-10th. Participation and presentation of the talk “Geophysical constraints on the internal
structure of Mars ”.
2005, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria,
April 24-29th. Participation.
2004, Joint Earth Sciences Meeting, Strasbourg, France, September 2025th. Participation and presentation of the talk “Study of the internal structure
of Mars ”.
2004, 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Paris, France, July 18-24th. Participation and presentation of the poster “Study of the martian interior structure : expectations from network science”.
2004, 1st EGU General Assembly, Nice, France, April 25-30th. Participation and presentation of the poster “Geophysical models of the Martian internal structure”.
2003, EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, April 06-11th. Participation and contribution to the talk “A joint inversion method of electromagnetic, geodetic and seismological data for the study of planetary interiors”.
2002, Colloque du Programme National de Planétologie, Nantes, France,
September 10-12th. Participation and presentation of the poster “MISSION
NETLANDER : La synergie entre les expériences MAGNET-NEIGE-SEIS
comme clef de voûte d’une nouvelle modélisation de la structure interne de
Mars”.
2002, 27th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Nice,
France, April 22-26th. Participation and presentation of the poster “Modeling
Mars’ interior” .
2002, 19ème Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Nantes, France, April 1112th. Participation and contribution to the talk “Modélisation de la structure
interne de Mars”.
Meetings and presentations
Meetings (continued)
2000. Groupe de contact FNRS, Université Libre de Liège, Belgium, November 17th. Participation and presentation of the talk “Discrete symmetries
in two dimensional conformal theories on the torus”.
Meetings and presentations
Summer schools
and workshops
2011, Workshop Europlanet on “Quantifying the Martian geochemical
reservoirs”, Bern, Switzerland, April 10 - 16th. Participation.
2005, Workshop “The Changing View of Mars”, Berlin, Germany, July
20th-22nd. Participation.
2003, Atelier Planète Mars, les Houches, France, April 28- May 9th. Participation and presentation of the poster “A joint inversion method of electromagnetic, geodetic and seismological data for the study of planetary interiors”.
2000. Eotvos Summer School in Physics : “Nonperturbative QFT methods and their applications”, Budapest, Hungary, August 14-18th. Participation.
1997. Ecole de physique de la matière condensée : “Théorie statistique
des champs”, Beg-Rohu, France, August 25 - September 20th. Participation.
Seminars
2009, ETH, Zürich, September 25th, “Constraints on thermal state and composition of the Earth’s lower mantle from joint inversion of electromagnetic
impedances and seismic data”.
2009, IPGP, Paris, January 5th, “Nouvelles contraintes sur la température
et la composition du manteau inférieur fournies par une inversion jointe de
données sismiques et électromagnétiques”.
2008, LPG, Nantes, April 4th, “Nouvelles contraintes sur la température et
la composition du manteau inférieur fournies par une inversion jointe de
données séismiques et électromagnétiques”.
2006, LPG, Nantes, December 1st, “Contraintes sur la température et la composition du manteau inférieur fournies par une inversion jointe de données
géophysiques”.
2006, ROB, Brussels, March 31th, “Constraints on the temperature and composition of the Earth’s lower mantle from a joint inversion of geophysical
data”.
2003, LPG, Nantes, October 9th, “Modélisation de la structure interne de
Mars par inversion jointe de données électromagnétiques, géodésiques et sismologiques”.
Teaching experience (October 1998-)
Nantes
France
University,
Maı̂tre de Conférences (September 2008 - ). Maı̂tre de Conférences
Invité (November 2006 and November 2007). Vacataire chargé d’enseignement (September 2004 - June 2007). Advisor of the thesis “Inversion probabiliste de données géophysiques lunaires”, L.-P. ChhatTea (2009/2010). Co-advisor of the thesis “Etude de la conductivité
électrique de la Lune”, A. Garnier (2005/2006). Co-advisor of the thesis “Analyses conjointes de données sismiques et électromagnétiques
du manteau inférieur terrestre.”, P-A. Arrial (2004/2005).
ENSG, France
Co-advisor of the thesis “Etude de la structure interne de Mars”, T.
Rugi (2004/2005).
Université Catholique
de Louvain, Belgium
Co-advisor of the thesis “Modélisation du noyau martien par inversion
stochastique des données MAGnet-NEIGE-SEIS de la mission Netlander.”, A. de le Court (2002/2003). Tutorials (October 1998 - September
2001) in graduate and undergraduate physics and mathematics. Training in active teaching (September 2000).
Awards, personal achievements, scientific and
educational responsabilities
2015-present
Responsable de la spécialité “Géosciences Planétaires” du Master 2ème
année “Terre, Planètes, Environnement” (Nantes University).
2014-present
Membre du Conseil de Perfectionnement de la Licence SVTE (Nantes
University). Membre du Conseil de Perfectionnement du Master TPE
(Nantes University). Membre de la Commission pédagogique de la Licence SVTE (Nantes University).
2014-2018
Collaborator of ANR Marmite (MAgnetic inteRactions at Mercury between the InTerior and the Exosphere, coordinator : Benoit Langlais,
LPG-Nantes).
2013-2014
Directeur des études du parcours STU du portail BGC Semestre 2
(Nantes University).
2013-present
Science Team Collaborator for the seismology part of the Mars mission
InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and
Heat Transport, NASA Discovery Program mission).
2012-2016
Collaborator of VIBRIS (Valorisation Interdisciplinaire du Bruit
Régional pour l’Imagerie Sismique, coordinator : Donatienne Leparoux, IFSTTAR) project funded by Région Pays de la Loire inside Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers Nantes Atlantique.
2011-present
Member of the STU Department Council (Nantes University).
2010-present
Member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the French Lunar Science
Institute.
2010-2012
Coordinator for the CNRS projet international de coopération scientifique (PICS) with the Royal Observatory of Belgium : Etude de la
structure interne des planètes telluriques et de la Lune par inversion
probabiliste de données géophysiques.
2010
Scientist in charge of the project Tomographies sismiques comparées
des manteaux terrestre et lunaire from French Programme National de
Planétologie.
2009-present
Team member for the seismology part of the Lunar mission SELENE2 (Japanese space agency ISAS/JAXA, Centre National d’Études Spatiales, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris).
2005-present
Reviewer for Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets and Earth and
Planetary Science Letters.