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_{Dr. Diana Comte}

Full Professor AMTC-FCFM Universidad de Chile

Is a seismologist and Ph.D. from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, is a Full Professor in the Department of Geophysics and R&D Director of the Advanced Mining Technology Center, both belonging to the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile. Diana has led numerous scientific projects focused mainly on seismotectonic, local earthquake tomography, and seismic hazards in different regions of Chile and Peru. She is the author of 65 WoS articles and has more than 2500 citations. Diana has recently oriented her research to reduce the scale of the passive seismic tomography at greenfield and brownfield scales, to define the 3D structure of the intrusive bodies associated with mineral deposits (CODELCO; Anglo American; Antofagasta Minerals; BHP Billiton). She has investigated the seismic sequence of earthquakes in Chile and Peru during the last 30 years: 1985 Mw8.0 Central Chile; 1995 Mw8.0 Antofagasta; 2001 Mw8.4 South of Peru; 2001 Mw6.3 Aroma fault system; 2004 Mw6.5 El Fierro fault system; 2010 Mw8.8 Maule, 2014 Mw8.2 Pisagua; and 2015 Mw8.4 Illapel. She also supervises postdoctoral, Ph.D., MSc, and undergraduate students at the University of Chile, through several competitive and industrial projects.

_{José R. Arce}

Arce Geofísicos

José R. Arce has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology and Geophysics (1991) from the University of Missouri-Rolla and a Master of Science Degree in Geophysical Engineering (1993) from the University of Arizona. He’s been working as a geophysicist on Arce Geofísicos since 1993 and currently heads the company with more than 1010 geophysical surveys to date in most of the American continent.

He has been a member of the EAGE for the last 33 years and has held several positions in the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG); he has chaired the Mining Committee (2015-2016), Near-Surface Technical Section (2019), Meetings and Review Planning Committee (2020-2022), and the JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, 2021-2022) committee. He has also served on the AGU-SEG collaboration committee (2018), and Health, Safety, and Security Committee (2020) and has represented District 6 in the Council (Latin America) between the years 2015-2017.

In the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) he has been Regional Vice-President for SouthAmerica and has been a member of the Nominations and Fellowship committees as well as the Council.

He presided over the organizing committee of the XIII Latin American Geological Congress in 2008 as well as the Peruvian Geological Society from 2012-2013.