Germán Rubino

Germán Rubino graduated as a Geophysicist (2004) and obtained a Ph.D. (2008) in Geophysics from the Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina. Later, he spent one year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Applied Geophysics of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata before he joined the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Lausanne in May 2010.

His Ph.D. thesis covered several topics in the field of theoretical and computational rock physics. The main motivations and contributions of this work were related to the analysis of the influence of different kinds of spatial rock and fluid heterogeneities on the propagation of elastic waves in fluid-saturated porous rocks. Additionally, being a Ph.D. student and later a Postdoctoral researcher, he was involved in the development of new methods to fully determine the elastic parameters of thin beds using prestack seismic data, as well as in the seismic characterization of CO2-bearing geological formations.

Currently, his main research interests are associated to the analysis of seismic wave propagation in highly heterogeneous porous media, in the presence of inhomogeneities larger than the pore size but smaller than the predominant wavelengths (“mesoscopic-scale” heterogeneities), and the potential applications of these results in diverse geological environments to extract additional information from the seismic data.
 

Professional Experience

May 2010 - Present
Post-doctoral fellow in the group of Klaus Holliger. Institute of Geophysics, UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland

2009 - 2010
Postdoctoral fellow. Department of Applied Geophysics, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.

2009 - 2010
Assistant Professor. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.

2005 - 2009
Research/Teaching Assistant. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.

2004 - 2005
Junior Geophysicist. Seismic interpretation. TECPETROL S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Education

2005 - 2008
Doctor in Geophysics. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.

1998 - 2004
Geophysicist. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.

Awards and Fellowships

2009 - 2010
CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technological Research) Postdoctoral fellowship.

2008-2009
García-Siñeriz Foundation Award to the best Doctoral Thesis in Pure or Applied Geophysics from Latin American and Spanish Universities. Madrid, November 2009.

2008
Rubino, J.G. and Velis, D., “Thin-bed spectral inversion using prestack data”. First mention to the best papers presented in the Simposium “La Geofísica: Integradora del Conocimiento del Subsuelo”, in the frame of “VII Congreso de Exploración y Desarrollo de Hidrocarburos”. Mar del Plata, Argentina.

2005-2009
CONICET Graduate fellowship for Doctoral Studies.

2004
“Dr. Joaquín V. González” award to the best students of Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

Several national and international awards in Mathematical Olympiads.
 

Major Areas of Work and Interest

Theoretical and computational rock physics. Seismic wave propagation theory and numerical simulation applied to rock acoustics, geophysical exploration, and environmental geophysics. New seismic data inversion and processing techniques.