Leo Eisner

Education
M.Sc. in Physics (Geophysics) Charles University in Prague,
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Czech Republic		 1994
PhD in Geophysics California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, California, USA		 2001
Professional Experience
Summer Internship. Amoco Tech. Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA 1998
Senior Research Scientist, Schlumberger Research (SCR),
Cambridge, UK		 2001 - 2007
Senior Geophysicist, from 2009 Chief Geophysicist,
Head of the Development department, Microseismic Inc, Houston, USA		 2008 - 2010

Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
and Geophysical Advisor to Microseismic Inc., President of Seismik s.r.o		 2010 - present
Research Interests

Modeling: high frequency asymptotic methods, full waveform (mainly finite difference) modeling in 3D heterogeneous media, inversion and uncertainty estimates, reciprocity.

Data analyses: induced seismicity, source mechanism inversion, seismic hazard assessment, regional and local full waveform modeling, network design and optimization of monitoring.

Organization of international conferences
AAPG Fracture Monitoring Using Passive Seismic 2013
SEG Forum on shales, Krakow, Poland 2013
SEG-SPE workshop on induced seismicity, Denver, USA 2012
SEG workshop on Microseismicity, Denver, USA 2010
IMAGES Second annual meeting, Patras, Greece 2007
IMAGES First annual meeting, Geophysical Institute, Prague, CZ 2006
IMAGES kick-off meeting, SCR Cambridge, UK 2005
Teaching Experience
Master thesis supervisor of Csenge Czanik (University of Budapest) 2011 - 2013
Master thesis supervisor of Robert Cieplicki (AGH, Krakow) 2011 - 2013
Master Thesis supervisor of F. Stanek (Charles U. Prague) 2011 - 2012
PhD supervision of D. Gei (OGS Trieste) 2010 - 2013
Led program of twelve summer internships resulting in
3 joint patents and 6 publications		 2002 - 2012
Teaching Assistant for Seismic Reflection Data (R.W. Clayton) 1997
Teaching Assistant for Theoretical Global Seismology (J. Tromp) 1998
Teaching Assistant for Physics of Earthquakes (H. Kanamori) 1999
Membership in professional societies:
  • Seismological Society of America
  • Society of Exploration Geophysics
  • European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers
  • American Geophysical Union
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers
  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Other activities
Editorial board of Acta Geodynamica et Geomaterialia 2012 - present
Associate Editor of Geophysical Prospecting 2008 - present
Editorial organizer of the Special Issue on Passive Seismicity of Geophysical Prospecting 2009 - 2010
Coordination of industry/academia partnership project 2005 - 2007
Coordinator of Transfer of Knowledge EU project IMAGES 2004

 

Reviewing for various international geophysical peer reviewed journals (GJI, Geophysics, BSSA, Geophys. Pros., Pageoph, etc.) ~ 5-10 reviews a year. Regular reviewer of 10 extended abstracts for the annual meetings of EAGE and SEG.

Invited talks:

  • 2012: German Geophysical Society, Hamburg, Germany; MIT Energy Club, Boston, USA; SEG Summer Research Workshop, La Jolla, USA; Center for Economy and Politics, Prague, Czech Republic; Science and Technology Week, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; Energy Forum, Podebrady, Czech Republic
  • 2011: University of Vienna, Austria; Austrian Geological Society, Vienna, Austria;  BUMPS Consortium, Bristol, UK
  • 2009: Denver Geophysical Society, Denver, USA
  • 2008: University of Strasbourg, France
  • 2007: SPICE meeting, France
  • 2005: AGU special session (induced seismicity)
Publications

Coauthor of 20 scientific (reviewed) papers, 6 business journals, 30+ extended abstracts, 120+ citations in reviewed journals and books. H-index of 6. Author or coauthor on 11 patents and patent applications.

Languages

Actively: Czech (mother tongue), English

  • Russian - passive
  • Hungarian - beginner
Awards
Purkyne Fellow 2010 - present
Board of Directors: Microseismic, Inc. 2009 - 2010
EAGE Session Chairman 2005, 2006, 2008,
2009, 2011, 2012
SEG Session Chairman 2008, 2011
Richards H. Jakings Teaching Award
  • Recognised for outstanding achievement as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, California Institute of Technology
 1999 - 2000