Currently, as research and teaching associate in the Petroleum Institute of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), I am using intrinsic and scattering attenuation of seismic waves to investigate fractured hydrocarbon reservoirs. Getting an accurate estimation of these two seismic attributes is challenging, but it is necessary to get correct interpretation. For that I have applied new in-house developed methods and workflow on sonic, vertical seismic profiling (VSP) and surface seismic data. The combination of scattering and intrinsic attenuation has shown a great potential for hydrocarbon detection  and for fractures investigation.During my Marie Curie postdoctoral in the Geophysical Institute of Prague, I accurately located the hypocenters of West Bohemia (Czech-German border) micro-seismicity, recorded between the years of 1993 and 2011. This allowed me to get high resolution geometry of the faulting system that is behind the micro-seismicity in this region. I also provided a detailed geophysical and geomechanical interpretation of the fault and about its spatial and temporal propagation.When I was working as research and teaching associate in the University of Marseilles, I carried out an experimental study of ultrasonic waves in concrete samples having different degrees of carbonation. The main finding of this study was the sensibility of the nonlinear behavior of the propagation to the carbonation degree. This means that ultrasonic waves have potential to predict the carbonation of concrete used in buildings.Furthermore, I have an important teaching experience. My classes are related to geophysics, continuum mechanics and civil engineering.