Assistant Professor of Applied Geophysics

Dr. Abir Jrad is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Water Research and Technologies (CERTE), Borj Cédria, Tunisia, and a member of the Laboratory of GeoResources (LGR). She previously taught Geophysics and Seismology at the Faculty of Sciences of Gabès and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Institute for Mediterranean Studies, in Rethymno, Greece. Her main research directions include environmental geophysics and phosphogypsum impacts, agro-geophysics, coastal hydrogeophysics, and archaeogeophysics. She is also interested in integrating machine learning (ML) and data-driven approaches into geophysical workflows, particularly for geophysical data interpretation, inversion, subsurface characterization and the integration of geophysical and remote-sensing data.