M.Verliac is Borehole Geophysics Senior Specialist within the TotalEnergies Geophysics Innovation team at the Pau technical headquarters (France). He joined Total (now TotalEnergies) late 2013. Since that date, he has been involved in operations support to the group affiliates around the world as being involved in technologies development. This covered mainly borehole seismic imaging and microseismic monitoring, both by conventional ways or by optical sensing. More recently, he focused deeper on technology development for Carbon Capture and Storage monitoring solutions and applications.

Before joining TotalEnergies, M.Verliac worked for more than 20 years in Schlumberger, firstly in the field as borehole geophysicist in West Africa and Latin America (from 1991 till 2002) before joining the Wireline Headquarter team in Paris. He acted as worldwide Borehole Geophysics Domain Champion from 2002 till 2007 before transferring to Schlumberger Carbon Services and later Schlumberger Information Services in 2010.

Michel holds two masters in Geophysics and Geochemistry for the Strasbourg Earth Physics Institute and one Specialization Master in Geophysics from the IFP School in Paris.

He is SEG, AAPG and EAGE member. He is member of the SEG Research Committee, SEG Membership Committee and chairman of the SEG CO₂ subcommittee.