Ph.D. Candidate in Geophysics
Consortium for Electromagnetic Modeling and Inversion
Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Telephone: (1-801) 585-5461
E-mail: tartaras@mines.utah.edu

PERSONAL

Birthdate: May 4, 1971
Birthplace: Thessaloniki, Greece
Citizenship: Greek

ACADEMIC HISTORY

March 1997 - present : Ph.D. Geophysics (Electromagnetic Methods), University of Utah (expected graduation date: May 2001)
September 1994 - March 1997 : M.S. Geophysics, University of Utah
September 1989 - November 1993 : B.S. Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

THESES-DISSERTATIONS

M.Sc. thesis, University of Utah, 1997. S-Inversion: Method of Interpretation of Time-Domain Electromagnetic Sounding Data (supervisors: Dr. M.S. Zhdanov, Dr. D. Chapman, Dr. K. Solomon).
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Utah, 2001. 3-D Inversion of Frequency-Domain Electromagnetic Data Based on the Localized Quasi-Linear Approximation (supervisors: Dr. M.S. Zhdanov, Dr. R. Bruhn, Dr. D. Chapman, Dr. A. Mezzatesta, Dr. P. Wannamaker).

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

January 2001 - May 2001 : Teaching Assistant for "Physical Fields II: Electromagnetic methods" , Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah (assist students with homework; correct and grade assignments; explain parts of theory that need clarification).
September 1994 - December 2000 : Research Assistant, Consortium for Electromagnetic Modeling and Inversion, University of Utah (2- and 3-D modeling of EM fields using integral equations and finite differences; approximate methods for 3-D EM modeling; fast imaging methods using EM fields (EM migration, S-inversion); 3-D inversion of EM data; inversion and interpretation of experimental EM data).
June-August 1996/1997/1998 : Scientific Associate, Baker Atlas Logging Services, Houston, Texas, USA (numerical validation of novel electromagnetic induction logging technologies).

LANGUAGES

Greek (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
French (fair)

COMPUTER SKILLS

Powerpoint, LaTeX, Word, spreadsheets.
Unix, DOS, and Windows environments.
Matlab, FORTRAN, Pascal, and Unix shell programming.

HONORS AND AWARDS

1994 Fulbright scholarship award.

SOCIETIES AND AFFILIATIONS

Member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Reviewer for 1999 SEG annual meeting ("Electromagnetics - MT and Controlled Source" section).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Electromagnetic geophysical methods and their applications to oil&gas and mineral exploration.
Numerical modeling of electromagnetic fields.
3-D inversion of electromagnetic data in complex environments.
Non-destructive target identification and object evaluation applied to subsurface probing, biomedical imaging, and engineering applications.
Fast approximate methods for electromagnetic imaging.
Inverse problems.
Geophysical computing.

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

Zhdanov, M.S., and Tartaras, E., 2001, 3-D inversion of multi-transmitter electromagnetic data based on the localized quasi-linear approximation: Geophysical Journal International (in review).
Tartaras, E., Zhdanov, M.S., Wada, K., Saito, A., and Hara, T., 2000, Fast imaging of TDEM data based on S-inversion: Journal of Applied Geophysics, 43, 15-32.

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Zhdanov, M.S., and Tartaras, E., 2000, Inversion of multi-transmitter 3-D electromagnetic data based on localized quasi-linear approximation: 70th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, 292-295.
Tartaras, E, and Zhdanov, M.S., 1999, Finite-difference EM modeling and imaging in a medium with a vertical axis of symmetry: 69th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, 319-322.
Tartaras, E, Pavlov, D., and Zhdanov, M.S., 1998, S-inversion of airborne electromagnetic data: 68th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, 473-476.
Tartaras, E., Zhdanov, M.S., Wada, K., Saito, A., and Hara, T., 1997, Fast imaging of Nojima fault zone TDEM data, using S-inversion: 67th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, 346-349.
Tartaras, E, and Zhdanov, M.S., 1996, Fast S-inversion in the time-domain: method of interpretation using the thin-sheet approach: 66th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, 1306-1309.