Research

My overall research goal is to advance our understanding of various geological processes and systems at differing scales by creating better images of the Earth through multi-disciplinary research tools, methods and data.

My research interests are very broad. I am interested in anything that involves the use of geophysics data for the purpose of imaging and monitoring subsurface systems, whether they are on Earth, Moon or other planets, whether they are at exploration scales or continental scales.

For example, I am interested in exploration of mineral deposits, groundwater and geothermal resources. I am also interested in characterizing the structure and evolution of volcanoes both on land and sub-sea. My very recent interest is in deciphering the oceanic plateaus using magnetic data, and geophysical monitoring of landslides.

I use gravity and magnetic data (ground, airborne, ship-borne) on a regular basis. I also use electromagnetic data to image the subsurface resistivity distributions.

Inversion has been a fundamental aspect of my research work. I have inverted gravity, magnetic, DC, IP, MT, frequency-domain airborne EM and seismic data in the past.

I write my own inversion codes in Fortran, Matlab and Python. Recently, my students and I have started to tap into the open source inversion frameworks such as SimPEG.

If you think that my expertise, interest and skills would be a good complement to yours and would like to initiate a collaboration, please do not hesitate to contact me!