Josep Gallart

Josep Gallart was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1954. He received the Physics degree from the University of Barcelona, Spain, in 1976, the Ph.D. degree in earth sciences at the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, in 1980, and the Ph.D. degree in geophysics from the University of Barcelona, Spain, in 1981. He worked at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. In 1985, he joined the University of Barcelona as Professor and moved in 1988 to a research position at the Institute of Earth Sciences-CSIC, Spain, where he has held a Research Professorship since 1999. He has accomplished internationally recognized research in earth sciences, focused on studies on the Earth structure and dynamics, based on techniques of seismology, seismic imaging, and tectonophysics. He has led and coordinated over 20 national and international projects in different tectonic environments, studying the structure and dynamics of the lithosphere, continental margins, subduction zones, volcanic systems, etc. He has supervised ten Ph.D. dissertations. Dr. Gallart has been a member of the ORFEUS Board of Directors since 1989, and a Spanish representative in the Commission of Controlled Source Seismology (CCSS) of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth Interior (IASPEI) since 1996. He has been a member and Spanish representative in the European initiatives EuroArray and Topo-Europe since 2005. He has been Vice-Director of the Institute of Earth Sciences and Head of the Geophysics Department of that Institute. He has been a member of the Earth Sciences Evaluation Panel of the Spanish Agency (ANEP) since 2004.