Geologist PHD Student. Speciality: Structural geologist

Geologist PHD Student. Speciality: Structural geologist

Mohamed GHARBI
Tunisian citizen, born July 9, 1981
At Tunis.
Single
Adress: N° 14 Bab Saadoun Impasse de
Soleil. 1006 Tunis/ Tunisia
Tel. : +21620951115 or +33614375963
[email protected]
[email protected]
Geologist PHD Student.
Speciality:
Structural geologist
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
►2010/2013: PHD (cotutelle) between the Aix-Marseille University and the Sfax and Gabes University:
Relationship between the southern Atlas foreland and the eastern margin of Tunisia (Chotts-Gulf of Gabes):
Tectono-sedimentary, fault kinematics and balanced cross section approaches (I will support my PHD at 17
December 2013)
Supervised by: Pr. Olivier Bellier, Dr. Amara Masrouhi (MC) and Dr. Nicolas Espurt (MC)
►2006/2008: Master Structures and Geological models in Faculty of Sciences of Tunis: Tectonic study of the
Zemlet el Beidha (Northern Chotts range): Cretaceous structures and tertiary evolution.
►2006: Bachelor of Earth Sciences (Option: Mapping and Planning).
►2000: Baccalaureate of Experimental Sciences.
TRAININGS AND FORMATIONS
►August 2006: Training in ETAP Petroleum National Company: Methodology of petrophysic analysis:
Macroscopic and microscopic study of siliciclastic (Tagi Formation: Trias) and Carbonates (Biréno Formation:
Turonian).
►SEPTEMBRE 2006: Training in National Office of Mines ONM: Geologic mapping of the NE of the Serj (NorthSouth Axis).
►2008: Field training in the North of Tunisia: -Trough system of Bou Arada-El Fahs and the salt structures of
the El Kef, de Teboursouk, Mjaz el Bab and Tebourba, associated with Teboursouk thrust.
►Mai 2009: Field training in the Cap Bon and the Grombalia trough:
-Hydrogeologic study of de la zone du Cap Bon.
-Geologic study and construction of the geologic cross section.
►22/06/2009-26/06/2009 (GTZ Project): Strengthening of the capacity technical directors of the CRDA
Medenine in GIS for the optimization of water resources in the region. (Supervisor: Eberhard Goll & Atef Bel
Haj).
►09/11/2009-08/01/2010: Training in ETAP Petroleum National Company: Geophysical interpretations: Case
of the Gulf Of Gabes.
►03/05/2010-05/05/2010 Formation in « Observatoire Hommes-Milieux du bassin minier de Provence »
(CEREGE Aix-Marseille University): Initiation GIS with ArcGIS 9.
►07/10/2010: Formation in « Observatoire Hommes-Milieux du bassin minier de Provence » (CEREGE AixMarseille University): Design, creation and processing of digital terrain models (DTM) with ArcGIS 9.
►Avril 2010: Field training (4 day) with Nicolas Espurt (MCF in Aix-Marseille University). Study mapping,
structural and geodynamic System Sainte-Victoire, Provence, France.
►Novembre 2011: Field training (2 day) with Olivier Bellier (Pr. in Aix-Marseille University). Study of the active
tectonic of the Trevaresse and Middle Durance fault (Marseille, France).
►28/08/2012 au 17/09/2012: English language, level 3C (medium), Amideast (Tunisia), attendance 75%.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, CONGRESSES AND WORKSHOPS
►Mars 2009: Congress: 4th Maghrebian Congress of Applied Geophysics. Nouvelles données de surface et de
subsurface de l’extrémité orientale de la chaîne Nord des Chotts (Tunisie méridionale): Implication
géodynamique
►Mai 2009 : Manifestation: Doctoral days (Gabes). Tectonique crétacée synsédimentaire et son évolution
tertiaire en Tunisie du sud (chaîne Nord des chotts).
►4-7 January 2010: Fifth International Conference on the Geology of the Tethys Realm (SouthValley
University, Qena, Egypt. Evolution Néogène des systèmes de fosses d’effondrement del’Atlas tunisien.
Application aux systèmes de Bou Arada-El Fahs et d’El Kef.
►TerMEx programme: Terre Mediterranean Earth Science Experiment in Paris on 7-8-9 June, 2010.
Geodynamic of the western Mediterranean: The case of Tunisian Foreland.
►11-16 October 2010: Meeting: 12th Tunisian petroleum exploration and production conference: Nouvelles
données tectono-sédimentaires sur la partie médiane de la chaîne nord des chotts (Tunisie méridionale):
implications géodynamiques.
►11-12 April 2011: Congress: 18th Congress of the PhD in Environmental Sciences (Aix-en-Provence,
Marseille): New evidence for Aptian-Albian Tethyan rifting in Northern Chott Range (South Tunisia): implication
for the Cenozoic inversion.
►8 April 2013: Meeting: AAPG European Regional Conference 2013 (Barcelona): Recent spatial and temporal
changes in the stress regime along the Southern Tunisian Atlas front and gulf of Gabes: New insights from fault
kinematics inversion and seismic sections.
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/review/EminIsayev/documents/2013/50796gharbi/ndx_gharbi.pdf.
►9 April 2013: Meeting: AAPG European Regional Conference 2013 (Barcelona): Structural architecture and
evolution of the southern Atlas fold and thrust belt of Tunisia as revealed by field data, seismic profiles and
cross section balancing.
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/review/EminIsayev/documents/2013/50840gharbi/ndx_gharbi.pdf
►14-18 Octobre 2013: 8th workshop of the ILP-Task Force on Sedimentary Basin (Marseille): Geometry and
kinematic evolution of the Southern Atlas Foreland inferred from field data and cross section balancing.
http://www.geosoc.fr/ilp2013marseille/first-circular.html
PUBLICATIONS
► Mohamed GHARBI, Amara MASROUHI, Nicolas ESPURT, Olivier BELLIER, Mohamed BEN YOUSSEF, Mohamed
GHANMI (2013). New tectono-sedimentary evidences for Aptian-Santonian extensional tectonic regime in the
Northern Chotts Range (South Tunisia). Journal of African Earth Sciences.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2012.09.017.
► Mohamed Gharbi, Olivier Bellier, Amara Masrouhi, Nicolas Espurt. Recent spatial and temporal change the
stress state: Cases the Southern Atlas front and Pelagian Sea (Chotts and gulf of Gabès in Tunisia). (Accepted
with major correction in Tectonophysics).
► Mohamed Gharbi, Nicolas Espurt, Amara Masrouhi, Olivier Bellier, El Amjed Amari. A reappraisal of the
structure and kinematics of the southern Atlas foreland, Tunisia (In preparation for Geological Society of
America Bulletin).
EXPERIENCE PROFETIONNELLE
►2007-2008- Associate professor in Structural Geology at Department of Earth Sciences of Gabes:
-TP/TD Structural Geology and Tectonics (Level: SVT2).
-TP/TD Topography (Level: LFST1).
►Co-Supervising (2008) of Bachelor of Earth Sciences: Southern Atlassic front in the Maghreb: Nature and
structuration from the Precambrian to the Quaternary.
►Co-Supervising (2011) (Master Structures and Geological models): Interference between folding and opening
of the troughs: Case trough of Kalaa Khisba-Rouhia (Central of Tunisia).
Skills
►Geology: Integrated basin study using outcrop, core, well log and seismic data, paleotectonic reconstruction,
sequence stratigraphic analysis, facies analysis, geological, structural, tectonic and facies mapping.
►Geophysics: Geological and petrophysical interpretation of well logs, well log correlation, structural seismic
interpretation.
►Computer: Microsoft: Word, Excel, Power Point/ Design software: Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Rock
Works, Canevas/GIS: ArcView; ArcGIS; MapInfo; Idrissi; Envi/Software of fault kinematics: Failles, Structural and
Kinematic Modeling: 2D and 3D Move, Seismic interpretation software: CHARISMA and SMT.
►Languages: Arabic (native speaker), French (fluent), English (Scientific).