Franck Latallerie

I am a seismologist and my current research is about imaging the mantle structure using elaborate inverse methods to better understand the mantle dynamics. Recently, I’ve been applying the Backus-Gilbert inversion to surface-wave tomography to build images of the upper-mantle, with a direct control over their resolution and uncertainties.

Currently, I am involved in the MC2 (Mantle Circulation Constrained)  large NERC grant project as a postdoctoral research assistant. In this project I collaborate with researchers from various fields in solid Earth sciences. Our aim is to bring together observations to constrain mantle circulation simulations. Here in Oxford, I am in the Deepscape group, working with Paula Koelemeijer and Andrew Walker.

Previously I did my PhD at the ITES (Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg) in France with Alessia Maggi on applying the Backus-Gilbert inversion to surface-wave tomography, in the frameworks of ray theory and finite-frequency theory, with applications to the Pacific region.