During my Master at the Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans and my first postdoc at GEOLAB (Clermont-Ferrand, France), I studied the onset and propagation of volcanic tsunamis, using numerical modeling.
I reproduced sector collapses that occurred at La Reunion Island (Kelfoun et al. 2010), Canary Islands (Giachetti et al. 2011) and Cape Verde Islands (Paris et al. 2011) and the subsequent triggered tsunamis together, according to different failure scenarios and using several rheologies to simulate the landslide propagation. I also used the numerical code to estimate the tsunami alea linked to the partial failure of the Anak Krakatau volcano, in Indonesia (Giachetti et al. 2012).
All these numerical modelisations were performed using the code VolcFlow, written by Karim Kelfoun.
In 2010, I went to Mauritius Island with Raphaël Paris and Karim Kelfoun to seek for tsunami deposits on the Southern coast, possibly linked to a tsunami triggered by a volcanic flank collapse at La Reunion Island (Paris et al. 2013).