Jean Virieux
Jean Virieux has been trained (1978) at the École Normale
Supérieure (Paris) in physics. He defended
a French state thesis in 1986. He has been
a professor at the Université de Nice
Sophia-Antipolis since 1991. His main
scientific interest is seismic wave propagation and related topics such as seismic
source imaging and seismic structure
imaging.
Dr. Virieaux shared the award for Best Paper in Geophysics in 2008 with Hafedh Ben-Hadj-Ali and Stéphane Operto.