Michel Campillo

Michel Campillo is a French professor of geophysics. His academic background is in physics, after which he specialised in Earth sciences. He was appointed to the position of professor at the University of Grenoble in 1989 and is now emeritus there. He has held visiting academic positions at several universities outside France. His research has focused on the study of seismic waves propagating within the Earth, the processes that generate them during seismic events, and their subsequent impact. In recent years, his interest has focused on developing passive imaging methods that reveal rapid changes in the Earth's mechanical properties. His work has involved close collaboration with physicists and mathematicians. He served as a member of the CNRS Ethics Committee for ten years. Prof. Campillo has been awarded two ERC Advanced Grants in the past. He won the Humboldt Research Prize in 2017, the Beno Gutenberg Medal from the European Geosciences Union in 2012, and the CNRS Silver Medal in 2003. He is a Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union (2008) and the Institut Universitaire de France (2006) and was elected to the French Académie des Sciences in 2019.

Mandate ERC Scientific Council: 1 Jan 2026  - 31 December 2029