Cécile Lasserre

After earning a degree in geotechnical engineering and applied geophysics at IST, Pierre and Marie Curie University (now PolyTech Sorbonne), I turned my attention to internal geophysics, completing a DEA (postgraduate diploma) and then a thesis—defended in 2000—at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (Paris Diderot University). After two years of postdoctoral research at UCLA in the United States, I was recruited as a CNRS research fellow at the ENS Paris Geology Laboratory in 2002, then joined the ISTerre laboratory in 2008 and finally, in 2018, the Lyon Terre, Planètes, Environment (LGLTPE) laboratory, where I am now a CNRS research director. My research focuses on the study of faults and the earthquakes they generate, using approaches known as active tectonics (combining field studies and spatial image analysis) and spatial geodesy (GNSS and radar interferometry).