| Didier Sornette, M.S., Ph.D.
Professor of Geophysics
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
and Department of Earth and Space Science
University of California
Los Angeles, California
www.ess.ucla.edu
Dr. Didier Sornette received his M.S. in Physical Sciences from
Ecole Normale Superieure in 1981 and completed his Master thesis
on Statistical Physic of membranes at the University of Nice in
1981. He was a Research Scientist of the CNRS (French National Center
for Scientific Research) from 1981 until 1990. In 1985, he completed
his Ph.D. on the Statistical Physics of Interfaces at the University
of Nice, France.
Dr. Sornette is presently a Professor of Geophysics at the Institute
of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and the Department of Earth
and Space Science at the University of California.
Prior academic work experience includes Post-Doctoral work in the
Condensed Matter Laboratory of Prof. P.G. de Gennes at College de
France from 1985-1986. Dr. Sornette was also a Visiting Professor
in the following locations: Canberra, Australia; Ecole Polytechnique,
Paris; and Santa Barbara, California. Since October, 1990, Dr. Sornette
has been a Research Director at CNRS, France. From 1996 until June,
1999, Dr. Sornette was a Professor-in-Residence part-time at the
Department of Earth and Space Science and at the Institute of Geophysics
and Planetary Physics, UCLA.
Dr. Sornette’s prior industrial experience includes the following:
Director of Research in the X-RS research and development company
in Orsay, France from 1988-1995; Scientific Advisor of the Technical
Director of Thomson-Marconi Sonar company in Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Technopolis, France from 1984-1996; and Advisor of aerospace industrial
companies, banks, investment, and reinsurance companies.
A recipient of numerous awards including the 2000 Research McDonnell
award (Studying Complex Systems, the Scientific Prediction of Crises)
and the Risques-Les Echos prize in 2002 (Predictability of catastrophic
events: material rupture, earthquakes, turbulence, financial crashes
and human birth), Dr. Sornette on the editorial boards of several
scientific and professional journals.
Dr. Sornette is the author and coauthor of more than 300 research
papers in refereed journal and more than 120 papers in books and
conferences proceedings, editor of two proceedings of two international
conferences, author of two books, and has spoken more than 200 times
at international conferences and Universities worldwide. He also
directed nine completed Ph. D. theses and directed eighteen post-doctorates.
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