Delphine's resume

DELPHINE D. FITZENZ
Geophysics engineer, PhD.

Earthquake Hazards Team
U.S. Geological Survey MS-977
345 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Phone: +1 650 329 5533
Fax: +1 650 329 5143
Room: 3A-133
Email: fitzenz@usgs.gov

French national., date of birth: 06/06/1976.

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

August 2002-present	Visiting scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey (1st year of post-doc funded by a Swiss National Fund fellowship). Advisor: Steve Hickman. Study and modeling of the time-evolution of the rheological, hydraulic, cohesive, and frictional properties of fault zones during the interseismic period and how this influences the fault behavior. Application to the full-cycle modeling of the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, CA.
1999-2002	PhD student, Engineering Geology, Geology Institute, ETH Zurich. Research work: Generalization of a 3-D fluid-driven fault interaction model. Referents: Prof. S. Loew and Dr. S.A. Miller. Assistant work: (1) Teaching assistant for the course on 3D geometrical modeling for geologists (GOCAD); (2) Co-system administrator of the (SGI) UNIX system of the team.
July-Sept 1998	Engineering training (M.S. Eng. work), Laboratoire de Mesures en Forage (Aix-en-Provence, France) Improvement of the mineralogical inversion method obtained during the DEA training, obtention of profiles of mineralogy, overpressures and permeability for several holes.
Feb-June 1998	DEA (M.S.) work, Laboratoire de Mesures en Forage (Aix-en-Provence, France) Mineralogical inversion of downhole measurements of physical properties and characterization of fluids circulation in the Barbados accretionary prism.
July-Aug 1997	Engineering training, BRGM Luminy - AFPS (Marseille, France) Contribution to the probabilistic evaluation of seismic hazard in France.
Nov-April 1997	Research project, IPG - Marine Geophysics Laboratory (Strasbourg, France) Paleomagnetic study of basalts dragged along the Central Indian Ridge and link with segmentation.
July 96	Summer training, Laboratoire de Mesures en Forage (Marseille, France) Creation of a database gathering physical and chemical ODP data on Hole 504B.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Fault mechanics and the role of fluids in faulting.
Evolution of fault systems, i.e., how deformation localizes until a fault breaks, and then how the seismic activity on a fault can change the local stress tensor around it, such that the fault either interacts with other pre-existing faults or promotes the creation of new, better oriented faults.
Multidisciplinary, integrative modeling approaches to study geological processes and evaluate seismic hazard (from the grain-scale, with structural geology, to the tectonic plate scale, with seismology, geodesy and field geology).

EDUCATION

1999-2002	PhD student in the Engineering Geology Team (ETH- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich). PhD thesis defended on April 19, 2002, and ETH medal awarded in 2003 after evaluation of the thesis by the medal committee and an external reviewer.
Nov. 1998	M.S. Engineer Geophysicist with honors (Mention Bien), EPGS (Ecole de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, France).
June 1998	D.E.A. (M.S. Degree) in Physics and Chemistry of the Earth with honors (Mention Bien), University of Strasbourg I, France. Option: Geophysics.
1995-1998	University Engineering School in Geophysics (EPGS)
1993-1995	Mathématiques Supérieures and Mathématiques Spéciales classes (College), Orléans, France.
1993	Scientific Baccalauréat C with honors (Mention Bien), L'Isle s/Sorgue, France.

MAIN FIELD EXPERIENCE

Sept 1997

Seismic profiling in the Ligurian Sea, Observatoire d'Océanologie, Villefranche sur mer, France;
Geophysical study of a salt dome in South Alsace (seismic, gravimetry, magnetism, electrical sounding), Geophysics Institute, Strasbourg, France.

LANGUAGES

French: mother tongue, English: fluent, German: read, written, spoken.

COMPUTER EXPERTISE

Computer environment: UNIX (use and system management of an SGI workstation network), MAC, Windows.
Programming experience in: Fortran (77, 90, 95), OpenMP, Matlab, LaTeX (and TurboC, TurboPascal)
Softwares : Gocad, FeFlow, Kaleidagraph, etc.

HONORS

Scholarship awarded by SPWLA for my MS. Eng. work, 1998.
ETH Medal awarded in 2003 for my PhD thesis.
Post-doc fellowship awarded by the Swiss National Fund, 08/2002-08/2003.
Reviewer for Geophys. J. Int. and J. Geophys. Res., 2002-2003.
Qualified to apply for "Maitre de conference" positions, sections 35 and 36 (2004-2008)

MISC.

Medic First Aid provider (First aid, CPR, AED), 2003.