D a n i l o   R.   V e l i s

Geofísico, UNLP, Argentina 1989
PhD Geophysics, UBC, Canada 1998, "Application of Simulated Annealing to some seismic problems". pdf

Current position: Professor and Researcher
Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas (FCAG), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina

Contact: velis@fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar
Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas (FCAG), Paseo del Bosque s/n, La Plata 1900, Argentina
Phone +54 (221) 423-6593

Research interests: My research focuses on the development of specialized algorithms and methods for the modeling, inversion and data processing in seismic exploration. Main topics include:

• inversion of pre- and poststack seismic data for the identification and characterization of geological units of interest (including thin-beds), both for the exploration of natural resources (oil, gas) and for the subsurface storage of carbon dioxide (the main greenhouse gas);
• detection and identification of seismic signals with application to the automatic picking of first arrivals and other seismological phases;
• wavelet estimation using higher-order statistics, sparse-spike deconvolution and frequency enhacement techniques.