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Engineering and Technology
France
2026

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
77
Citations
27084
World Ranking
641
National Ranking
9

Earth Science

D-Index
80
Citations
28987
World Ranking
523
National Ranking
24

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in France Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Jean Virieux is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France, contributing extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Their research predominantly focuses on geophysics, with significant work in seismic waves and analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, and earthquake and tectonic studies.

The scientist's work spans multiple specialized topics including:

  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Landslides and Related Hazards
  • Drilling and Well Engineering

Jean Virieux has published extensively in prominent journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Geophysics
  • Nature Communications
  • Geoscience Communication
  • Near Surface Geophysics

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • "PINNtomo: Seismic tomography using physics-informed neural networks," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "3-D multiparameter full-waveform inversion for ocean-bottom seismic data using an efficient fluid-solid coupled spectral-element solver," 2021, Geophysical Journal International
  • "Localized adaptive waveform inversion: theory and numerical verification," 2022, Geophysical Journal International
  • "Challenges in shallow target reconstruction by 3D elastic full-waveform inversion - Which initial model?," 2021, Geophysics
  • "2-D seismic wave propagation using the distributional finite-difference method: further developments and potential for global seismology," 2024, Geophysical Journal International

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Romain Brossier
  • Ludovic Métivier
  • Titouan Muzellec
  • Guido Russo
  • Aldo Zollo

Jean Virieux's main fields of study cover 34 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 10 publications in Engineering, with subfields also including Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Artificial Intelligence.

Among their recognitions is being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • An overview of full-waveform inversion in exploration geophysics

    Jean Virieux;Stéphane Operto

  • P-SV wave propagation in heterogeneous media: Velocity‐stress finite‐difference method

    Jean Virieux

  • SH-wave propagation in heterogeneous media: velocity-stress finite-difference method

    J. Virieux

  • Probabilistic Earthquake Location in 3D and Layered Models

    Anthony Lomax;Jean Virieux;Philippe Volant;Catherine Berge-Thierry

  • Two‐dimensional nonlinear inversion of seismic waveforms: Numerical results

    Odile Gauthier;Jean Virieux;Albert Tarantola

  • Seismic imaging of complex onshore structures by 2D elastic frequency-domain full-waveform inversion

    Romain Brossier;Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux

  • Seismicity, normal faulting, and the geomorphological development of the Gulf of Corinth (Greece): the Corinth earthquakes of February and March 1981

    J.A. Jackson;J. Gagnepain;G. Houseman;G.C.P. King

  • A guided tour of multiparameter full-waveform inversion with multicomponent data: From theory to practice

    S. Operto;Y. Gholami;V. Prieux;A. Ribodetti

  • 3D finite-difference frequency-domain modeling of visco-acoustic wave propagation using a massively parallel direct solver: A feasibility study

    Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux;Patrick Amestoy;Jean-Yves L’Excellent

  • Multiscale imaging of complex structures from multifold wide-aperture seismic data by frequency-domain full-waveform tomography: application to a thrust belt

    C. Ravaut;S. Operto;L. Improta;J. Virieux

  • Mixed‐grid and staggered‐grid finite‐difference methods for frequency‐domain acoustic wave modelling

    Bernhard Hustedt;Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux

  • Measuring the misfit between seismograms using an optimal transport distance: application to full waveform inversion

    Ludovic Métivier;Romain Brossier;Quentin Mérigot;Edouard Oudet

  • Full Waveform Inversion and the Truncated Newton Method

    Ludovic Métivier;Romain Brossier;Jean Virieux;Stéphane Operto

  • Crustal seismic imaging from multifold ocean bottom seismometer data by frequency domain full waveform tomography: Application to the eastern Nankai trough

    Stéphane Operto;J. Virieux;J.-X. Dessa;G. Pascal

  • Seismic reflections reveal a massive melt layer feeding Campi Flegrei caldera

    Aldo Zollo;Nils Maercklin;Maurizio Vassallo;Dario Dello Iacono

  • Which data residual norm for robust elastic frequency-domain full waveform inversion?

    Romain Brossier;Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux

  • A review of the spectral, pseudo-spectral, finite-difference and finite-element modelling techniques for geophysical imaging

    Jean Virieux;Henri Calandra;René-Édouard Plessix

  • Iterative asymptotic inversion in the acoustic approximation

    Gilles Lambare;Jean Virieux;Raul Madariaga;Side Jin

  • Transmission of light in deep sea water at the site of the Antares neutrino telescope

    J.A. Aguilar;A. Albert;P. Amram;M. Anghinolfi

  • Regularized seismic full waveform inversion with prior model information

    Amir Asnaashari;Romain Brossier;Stéphane Garambois;François Audebert

  • Full Waveform Inversion and the Truncated Newton Method

    Ludovic Métivier;Romain Brossier;Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphane Operto
Stéphane Operto Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Aldo Zollo
Aldo Zollo University of Naples Federico II
Stéphane Garambois
Stéphane Garambois Grenoble Alpes University
Anne Deschamps
Anne Deschamps Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Guust Nolet
Guust Nolet Université Côte d'Azur
Raul Madariaga
Raul Madariaga École Normale Supérieure
Véronique Farra
Véronique Farra Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Claudio Chiarabba
Claudio Chiarabba National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Alberto Michelini
Alberto Michelini National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Gilles Grandjean
Gilles Grandjean French Geological Survey

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