Thomas Lecocq
Geologist - Seismologist at Royal Observatory of Belgium
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
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Top SchoolThomas Lecocq is a geologist-turned-seismologist with 14+ years at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, where he leads the Seismology-Gravimetry service and runs the national seismic alert system. He combines fieldwork and academic training—formerly teaching geophysics at Université Libre de Bruxelles—with active supervision of master and PhD students studying seismic noise and hazard in environments from Iceland to Belgian caves. As the developer of MSNoise and a core contributor to ObsPy, he brings scientific software engineering to operational seismology, notably improving ObsPy’s DATAMARK handling. His work spans volcano-seismology, earthquake location/relocation and ambient-noise monitoring, blending rigorous research with production-grade tooling and European seismological leadership.
13 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geology/Earth Science, General, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geology/Earth Science, General at Université libre de BruxellesSecondaire Supérieur, Sciences, Secondaire Supérieur, Sciences at Athénée Royal Jean Absil
French, Dutch, German, English, indonésien
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Github Skills (10)
data-parsing10
python10
signal-processing9
waveform9
seismology9
cartopy6
pip6
projection6
matplotlib6
scikit6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
obspy/obspy
Jun 2012 - Feb 2022
ObsPy: A Python Toolbox for seismology/seismological observatories.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 reviews, 116 commits, 72 PRs in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Thomas's primary contribution involves adding support for the DATAMARK data format within the ObsPy seismology toolbox. Their work focuses on reading and parsing DATAMARK files, extracting relevant data, and integrating it into ObsPy's core data structures. They improved data handling by adding support for different datawide values, correcting year parsing, and fixing bugs related to channel ID and data format interpretation. These changes enhance ObsPy's ability to handle a specific type of seismic data, making it more versatile.
seismologypythonsciencetoolboxdata-center
ThomasLecocq/msnoise-tomo
Mar 2017 - Sep 2020
The Ambient Noise Tomography Plugin for MSNoise
Contributions:52 commits, 5 PRs, 50 pushes in 3 years 6 months
ambient-noisenoiseambienttomography
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