Curriculum-vitae

Education

2012: Phd degree in geology, Grenoble University, France
2008: MSc degree (Master 2) “Solid Earth”, Joseph Fourrier University, Grenoble, France
2006: BSc degree in Geosciences (3 years), Angers University, France
2003: Scientific Baccalauréat, Caen, France

Positions

2014-2016: Post-doctoral position “Salt tectonic in the Iberian Chain”, Institut of Jaume Almera (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain (director J. Vergés)
2013-2014: Temporary teaching and research assistant in geology (teaching: 249 hrs), Montpellier 2 University (France)
2012-2013: Temporary teaching and research assistant in geology (teaching: 236 hrs), Caen University (France)
2008-2012: Phd degree in geology, “The northern margin of the Basque Trough during Albian: sedimentary architecture and diapir growth in strike-slip settings (Basque Country)”. ISTerre laboratory, Grenoble University and Geolink company (France), (directors C. Basile, ISTerre & T. Jacquin, Geolink)

Field work experiences

2014-2016 (post-doctoral position): Miravete de la Sierra (Ibéric Chain), High Atlas (Morocco), Lusitanian basin (Portugal), Pyrénées and Adana basin (Turkey)
2008-2011 (PhD): Basque Country, Spain (5 months in total)
2011: PhD field school, geology of the Variscan Chain in the eastern part of the French "Massif Central"
2009: PhD field school, crustal thinning and granit emplacement in the Elba Island.
2005-2007 (Summers): mapping of the Carboniferous Laval basin (BRGM and Caen University, France)
2003-2008 (BSc MSc degrees) : Black Montains, French Central Massif, Alps, Lower Loire coal basin, May-sur-Orne syncline (Lower Normandy)

Papers

Vergés, J., Poprawski, Y., Almar, Y., Drzewiecki, P.A., Moragas, M., Bover‐Arnal, T., Macchiavelli, C., Wright, W., Messager, G., Embry, J.‐C. and Hunt, D. (2020), Tectono‐Sedimentary Evolution of Jurassic‐Cretaceous diapiric structures: Miravete anticline, Maestrat Basin, Spain. Basin Res. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1111/bre.12447
Furgerot, L., Poprawski, Y., Violet, M., Poizot, E, Bailly du Bois, P., Morillon, M. and Mear, Y. (2019). High-resolution bathymetry of the Alderney Race and its geological and sedimentological description (Raz Blanchard, northwest France), Journal of Maps, 15:2, 708-718, DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2019.1657510
Hoeksema, B. W., Pedoja, K., Poprawski, Y. (2018). Long‐distance transport of a West Atlantic stony coral on a plastic raft. Ecology. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2405.
Pedoja, K., Jara-Muñoz, J., De Gelder, G., Robertson, J., Meschis, M., Fernandez-Blanco, D., Nexer, M., Poprawski, Y., Dugué, O., Delcaillau, B., Bessin, P., Benabdelouahed, M., Authemayou, C., Husson, L., Regard, V., Menier, D., Pinel, B. Bessin, P. (2018). Neogene-Quaternary slow coastal uplift of Western Europe through the perspective of sequences of strandlines from the Cotentin Peninsula (Normandy, France). Geomorphology, 303, 338-356. DOI:10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.11.021.
Poprawski, Y., Basile, C., Jaillard, E., Gaudin, M., Lopez, M. (2016). Halokinetic sequences in carbonate systems: An example from the Middle Albian Bakio Breccias Formation (Basque Country, Spain). Sedimentary Geology, 334, 34-52. DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.01.013.
Cavalier, P., Baghai-Wadji, A., Poprawski, Y., Inggs, M. (2016). An empirical law for wavelet maxima interpretation of potential fields: Application to the Uinta Mountains range. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 134, 89-99. DOI:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2016.08.008.
Poprawski, Y., Basile, C., Agirrezabala, L., Jaillard, E., Gaudin, M., Jacquin, T. (2014). Sedimentary and structural record of the Albian growth of the Bakio salt diapir (the Basque Country, northern Spain). Basin Research. 26, 746-766. DOI: 10.1111/bre.12062.
Pedoja, K., Husson, L., Johnson, M.E., Melnick, D., Witt, C., Pochat, S., Nexer, M., Delcaillau, B., Pinegina T., Poprawski, Y., Authemayou, C., Elliot, M., Regard, V., Garestier, F. (2014). Coastal staircase sequences reflecting sea-level oscillations and tectonic uplift during the Quaternary and Neogene. Earth-Science Reviews, 132, 13-38. DOI:10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.01.007.

Map with the French Geological Survey

Le Gall, J., Gigot, P., Savaton, P., Lacquement, F., Poprawski, Y., Vernhet, Y. (2011). Carte géologique de la France (1/50 000), Feuille de Laval, Orléans : Édition BRGM.

Talks and posters

Gutteridge, P., Horbury, A., Poprawski, Y. (2019). Salt – carbonate interactions in the Sureste Basin, SE Mexico; depositional models and analogues for Cretaceous carbonate breccias. Oral presentation, Petroleum Geology of Mexico and the Northern Caribbean. The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, UK.
Poprawski, Y., Basile, C. (2018). Halokinetic sequences in carbonate depositional settings: the case-study of the Bakio diapir (Basque-Cantabrian basin, northern Spain). Oral presentation, GSA Penrose Conference. Advances in salt tectonics: observations, applications, and perspective: In honor of Martin P.A. Jackson. Ein Boqeq, Israel.
Poprawski, Y., Basile, C. (2018). Salt growth in the Basque-Cantabrian basin (northern Spain): a review. Poster, GSA Penrose Conference. Advances in salt tectonics: observations, applications, and perspective: In honor of Martin P.A. Jackson. Ein Boqeq, Israel. DOI: 0.1002/essoar.10500041.1
Saura, E., Verges, J., Moragas, M., Casciello, E., Casini, G., Almar, Y., Poprawski, Y., Martín-Martín, J., Méssager, G, Hunt, D. (2017). Poster, From Outcrop to Reservoir: Improving Exploration in Diapiric Provinces. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Houston, Texas, USA.
Poprawski, Y., Basile, C. (2014). Transpression et inversion des failles normales du Crétacé lors de la compression pyrénéenne (Plenzia-Armintza, Pays Basque espagnol). Oral presentation, 24e Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Pau, France.
Poprawski, Y., Basile, C., Agirrezabala, L., Jaillard, E., Gaudin, M., Jacquin, T. (2013). Vers un modèle général des carbonates re-sédimentés ? Exemple de la formation des brèches de Bakio autour du diapir de Bakio (Pays Basque, Espagne). Oral presentation, 14e congrès de l'Association Française de Sédimentologie, Paris, France.
Poprawski, Y. (2011). Modélisation du diapir de Bakio (Pays Basque espagnol) : exemple d’utilisation de données lidar pour la modélisation en 3D de surfaces géologiques. Oral presentation, École thématique CNRS n° 1111093, Chambéry, France.
Poprawski, Y., Basile, C., Jacquin, T., Gaudin, M., Rossi, M. (2010). Caractérisation des géométries dans les flancs d’un diapir et impact sur la sédimentation: exemple du diapir de Bakio (Pays Basque espagnol). Oral presentation, 23e édition de la Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Bordeaux, France.
Poprawski, Y., Basile, C., Jacquin, T., Rossi, M. and Gaudin, M. (2010). Albian depositional systems along the faulted Basque-Cantabrian northern margin as an analogue to slope-apron fan systems occurring on the western side of the Klakk Fault complex. Oral presentation, From depositional systems to sedimentary successions on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, Stavanger, Norvège.
Poprawski, Y., Basile, C., Jacquin, T., Gaudin, M., Rossi, M. (2010). Syn-tectonic carbonated sedimentation and gravitational collapses on the border of the Basque-Cantabrian Albian pull-apart basin. Poster, EGU General Assembly. Vienna.
Poprawski, Y. and Lacquement, F. (2007). Mechanics of Variscan Orogeny: A modern view on orogenic research. Poster, BRGM, Orléans, France.