2014 Honorary Lecturer Europe | Laurent Sirgue Total
Pau, France Full waveform inversion of seismic data:
Investigating the Earth for high-resolution velocities and more... | | Biography  Laurent Sirgue joined Total France in 2009 as a geophysicist. He has been conducting research on the topic of full waveform inversion (FWI) for nearly 15 years. Laurent received a BSc in physics from Versailles University in 1995 and an MSc in geophysics from the University of Strasbourg in 1997. He joined CGG in 1998 as a research geophysicist. In 1999, CGG sponsored Laurent's 16-month National Service, which took him to Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, where he worked with Gerhard Pratt on FWI. In 2003, Laurent received his PhD from the University of Paris-sud XI. His dissertation research also focused on FWI. CGG sponsored Laurent's doctoral research in collaboration with Professor Pratt. As a postdoctoral researcher at Total (Pau, France), Laurent conducted research on reservoir characterization. In 2004, he joined the depth-imaging group at BP America where his work focused mainly on FWI. Laurent has received a number of awards for his research including Honorable Mention for Best Paper in Geophysics in 2004 and the 2010 Bonarelli Award for best oral presentation at the EAGE Annual Conference.
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