Alain Bonneville
Mazama Energy, Inc
Chief Geoscientist
Alain is a geophysicist with 35+ years of experience in geothermal energy, geological storage of CO2 and geophysical exploration and monitoring techniques. Between 2009 and 2021, he was a Laboratory Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where he led several multi-institutional research projects. Prior to this role, he was a full professor of Geophysics and vice director of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP). He has authored 110+ publications in various domains of Earth sciences, from the study of intra-plate volcanism to marine heat flow and geodesy. Alain is also a courtesy Professor at Oregon State University and a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences. Alain received his M.S. in Petroleum Geophysics from IFP-School, France, and his Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Montpellier, France.