Life
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Citizen of Belgium. United States permanent
resident. Married to Pallavi Nuka.
Three children,
Anika (2005), Gautam (2006)
& Kiran (2012)
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Employment
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| 2009-2013 |
Dusenbury
University Preceptor
of Geological and Geophysical Sciences
Princeton University, Princeton NJ |
| 2006- |
Assistant Professor of Geophysics,
Department of Geosciences
Princeton University, Princeton NJ |
| 2011 |
Visiting Fellow,
University College London (Statistical Sciences)
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| 2010 |
Visiting Fellow,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Visitor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(Mathematics)
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| 2009 |
Visiting Professor,
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
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| 2008 |
Visiting Professor,
ETH Zürich |
| 2004-2007 |
Lecturer of Geophysics, Department of Earth
Sciences
University College London, London, UK |
| 2002-2004 |
Beck Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Council on Science & Technology
Hess Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Department of Geosciences
Princeton University, Princeton NJ
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| 2002 |
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and
Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge MA
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| 1996-2002 |
Research and Teaching Assistant
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and
Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge MA
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| 2001 |
Summer Research Intern
Shell International
Exploration & Production, Houston, TX
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| 1996 |
Summer Research Assistant
Departement Fysico-chemische
Geologie
Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Education
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Honors |
| 2008 |
Prix quadriennal Charles Lagrange for contributions to mathematical geophysics
Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
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| 2005 |
Award for
Newly Appointed Science Lecturers
Nuffield Foundation
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| 2004 |
Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing
(JGR Planets)
American Geophysical Union |
| 2001 | Outstanding Student Paper
Award (Seismology Section)
American Geophysical Union |
| 1998 |
Teaching Assistant Excellence Award
Department of EAPS, MIT |
| 1998 |
Victor J. DeCorte Graduate Fellowship, MIT |
| 1998 | Student Research Fund
Travel grant to Australia
Department of EAPS, MIT |
| 1997 | Teaching Assistant
Excellence Award
Department of EAPS, MIT |
| 1997 |
Biennial prize for an M.Sc. thesis in geology
Beroepsvereniging van Leuvense Geologen |
| 1996-1997 |
Honorary Fellow,
Belgian American Educational Foundation |
| 1996-1997 |
Grantee,
The Fulbright Program |
| 1996-1997 |
Ambassadorial Scholar,
Rotary International Foundation |
| 1994 |
The
Scottish Universities International Summer School:
scholarship to attend the Summer School's session
on Postmodern English Literature, Edinburgh |
| 1993 |
Katholieke Universiteit Brussel:
scholarship to attend the
Scottish Universities International Summer School
on Modernist English Literature, Edinburgh |
| 1992 | Primus perpetuus
Onze-Lieve Vrouwecollege
Jesuit School,
Antwerpen, Belgium |
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Editorial |
Editor, International Journal on Geomathematics
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of
Geodetic Science
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Earth & Planetary
Science Letters
Associate Editor, Journal
of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth), 2004-2009
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Referee |
Reviewer, over 150 (i.e., far too many so think twice before
suggesting me!) papers and proposals for:
AGU Monographs,
Artificial Satellites,
Cambridge University Press,
Climatic Change,
Czech Science Foundation,
Comput. Geosci.,
Earth Planets Space,
Earth Planet. Sc. Lett.,
EOS, Trans. Am. Geoph. Union,
G-Cubed,
Geology,
Geophys. J. Intern.,
Geophys. Res. Lett.,
Geosphere,
GSA Spec. Pub.,
IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc..
Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers,
Int. J. Geomathematics,
J. Geodesy,
J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth,
J. Geophys. Res. Planets,
J. Roy. Stat. Soc.,
Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation,
Lithosphere,
Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada,
NWO Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research,
Ocean Modelling,
Phys. Earth. Planet. Int.,
Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. Ser. A,
Science,
Taylor & Francis,
U.K. Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council,
U.S. National Science Foundation.
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Advising |
For past and present postdocs, students and
collaborators-at-large, see
here.
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Committee |
Graduate: I have served as a member on 6 Princeton Geosciences
and 1 Electrical Engineering Ph. D. thesis committees and in 5
more abroad (in Physics, Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering in
Germany, the UK and Australia); on 15 Geosciences and 1 Mathematics
General Exam committees at Princeton and 2 M. Sc. thesis
committees abroad (both in Canada).
Undergraduate: At Princeton I have advised 5 Junior
papers (in Geosciences, Physics, and Operations Research).
At UCL/Birkbeck I advised 1 M. Res, 3 M. Sci. and 4 B. Sc. theses, all
in Geosciences.
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Funding |
NASA, NNX11AQ45G, 2011-2014 (with Kevin W. Lewis).
NSF, EAR-1014606, 2010-2012 (with C. K. Shum).
NSF, EAR-0710860, 2007-2010.
NSF, EAR-0105387, 2007-2009 (with F. A. [Tony] Dahlen).
ESF, MYRES 2006 Conference Grant, 2006
(with Laurent G. J. Montési).
SRIF3, Equipment Grant for Observational Seismology, 2006.
NERC, New Investigator Award, 2005-2008.
Nuffield Foundation,
Newly Appointed Science Lecturers Award, 2005-2007.
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Languages |
Active: Dutch, French, English
Passive: German
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Memberships |
Member, American Geophysical Union
Member, European Geosciences Union
Member, Seismological Society of America
Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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Invited
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| 02/22/2012 |
Rutgers University
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New Brunswick, NJ |
| 01/25/2012 |
PARCA Meeting, NASA
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Greenbelt, MD |
| 11/29/2011 |
Princeton University, Geosciences |
Princeton, NJ |
| 11/21/2011 |
Princeton PACM Colloquium |
Princeton, NJ |
| 10/03/2011 |
Mathematics in the Geosciences Workshop
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Evanston, IL |
| 08/22/2011 |
SPIE Wavelets and Sparsity XIV Conference
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San Diego, CA |
| 08/11/2011 |
Dublin Institute for Advanced Study |
Dublin, Ireland |
| 07/05/2011 |
IUGG General Assembly XXV |
Melbourne, Australia |
| 07/04/2011 |
IUGG General Assembly XXV |
Melbourne, Australia |
| 06/16/2011 |
University of Cambridge |
Cambridge, UK |
| 05/04/2011 |
Princeton Center for Theoretical Science |
Princeton, NJ |
| 02/25/2011 |
MIT Earth Resources Laboratory |
Cambridge, MA |
| 02/14/2011 |
Harvard University |
Cambridge, MA |
| 01/08/2011 |
Joint SIAM/AMS/MAA Meetings |
New Orleans, LA |
| 1999-2010 |
For previous years, see here |
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Oral
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Poster
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Attended
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