J. Sileny

CV: Jan Šílený Born: November 20, 1952 at Jilemnice, Czechoslovakia Citizenship: Czech Marital status: married, with 3 children Affiliation: Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Boční II, 141 31 Praha 4, Czech Republic, www.ig.cas.cz, E-mail: jsi@ig.cas.cz Academic history: graduated with honours at Charles University, Prague, 1977, in physics RNDr degree (equivalent to MSc.), Charles University, Prague, 1979, in geophysics CSc degree (equivalent to PhD), Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, 1984, in seismology Appointments: 1979-1982 post-graduate student at Geophysical Institute, Czech. Acad. Sci., Prague 1982-1985 Institute of Geotechnics, Czech. Acad. Sci., Prague since 1986 Institute of Geophysics, Czech. Acad. Sci., Prague Present post: Senior Scientist, Dept. of Seismology, Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences Duties: 1992 – Deputy Director of the Geophys. Inst. 1993-2001 - Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Geophys. Inst. 1998-2000 – member of the Scientific Council of the Inst. of Geology 1993-2001 – member of the Academic Assembly 2001-2003 – member of advisory board of the Grant Agency of the Acad. Sci. 2002-2018 – Head of the Department of Seismology of the Geophys. Inst. Areas of research interests: source modeling - earthquakes and events induced by man-made activity (mining tremors, fracturing of oil/gas wells and geothermal boreholes) theoretical seismology: inverse problems for source parameters retrieval (amplitude and waveform inversion) and for determination of anisotropy in lithosphere from shear wave splitting. Fellowships: EC Go-West Fellow at the ICTP, Trieste, 1993 Italian Government Fellowship at the University of Trieste, 1993 CNR-NATO Guest Fellow at the University of Trieste, 1997 Memberships in scientific organizations: European Geophysical Society, American Geophysical Union, Society of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, for the period 1994-1999 appointed a Regular Associate Member of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy, in 2003-2008 Senior Associate Member of the ICTP, 1996-2000 Titular Member of the European Seismological Commission for the Czech Republic Awards: Stefan Hepites Prize (Romanian Acad. Sci.) 2007 Prize of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences 1988 (with V.Rudajev, J.Buben, M.Brož and P.Fučík) Publications: Author or co-author of about 80 scientific papers. It can be found more than 1600 citations to his papers in geophysical journals or monographs, WoS h-index 27.