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J. Renner
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Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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D. Agnew
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University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225, USA
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J.C. Afonso
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Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
I. Bastow
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Imperial College London
A. Biggin
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University of Liverpool, UK
D. Blackman
UCSD, Scripps Institution Oceanography, CA, USA
L. Boschi
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Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
H. Chauris
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École de Mines, Paris, France
G. Choblet
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Université de Nantes, France
J. Collier
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Dept. Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London
A. Ferreira
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University College, London, UK
E. Fukuyama
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National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Tsukuba, Japan
E. Hauksson
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
K. Heki
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Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
R. Holme
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Jane Herdman Laboratories, University of Liverpool, UK
K. Key
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Columbia University
G. Laske
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, CA, USA
A. Maineult
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Sorbonne University, France
L. Métivier
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Université Grenoble Alpes - Grenoble, France
A. Morelli
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Sezione di Bologna-Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Bologna, Italy
E. Petrovsky
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Institute of Geophysics, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
S. Ni
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Professor of Geophysics, State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth’s Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Wuhan, China
R.-É. Plessix
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Shell Global Solutions International, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
M.H. Ritzwoller
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University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA
M. Schimmel
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Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera - CSIC, Spain
M. Segou
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British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, UK
F. Simons
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Princeton University, NJ, USA
C. Tape
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University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, USA
I. Vasconcelos
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Dept. of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
B. Vermeersen
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Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
J. Virieux
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Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble I, France
U. Weckmann
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, Germany
H. Yao
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University of Science and Technology of China
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J. Renner (Editor-In-Chief)
Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
E-mail: joerg.renner@rub.de
After his dissertation at the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB), Jörg Renner held postdoctoral fellowships and appointments at MIT and GFZ Potsdam before he became Professor for Experimental Geophysics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2001. His major research interests are in two strongly linked topics, subsurface fluid transport and rheology of rocks. He addresses problems from groundwater flow near the surface, to oil, gas or geothermal energy production from the upper crust, to melt transport in the Earth's mantle by performing and analyzing field and laboratory experiments.
Joined GJI Board 2007
D. Agnew (Deputy Editor-in-Chief)
ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2360-7783
IGPP, M/C 0225, University of California, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0225, USA
Duncan Carr Agnew is a professor of geophysics at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. His main research interest is in crustal deformation and most especially its measurement, which he pursues using GPS and strainmeters. He is also interested in data analysis methods, seismic and geodetic instrumentation, historical and statistical seismology, and earth and ocean tides.
Sections: Geodynamics and tectonics; Gravity, geodesy and tides; Seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2009
Editors
J.C. Afonso
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Building E7A, Sydney, Australia
e-mail: juan.afonso@mq.edu.au
Juan Carlos Afonso is an Associate Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney. His main research interests are lithospheric modelling at multiple scales, thermochemical structure of the lithosphere and mantle, probabilistic inversion methods, and numerical methods for geodynamic processes. His most recent research combines multiscale inversion and modelling techniques to constrain the physical state of the lithosphere and upper mantle using a multi-observable probabilistic framework.
Sections: Geodynamics and tectonics; Gravity, geodesy and tides; Mineral physics, rheology; Seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2016
I. Bastow
ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1468-9278
Imperial College London
E-mail: ibastow@ic.ac.uk
Ian Bastow is a senior lecturer in global seismology and continental tectonics at Imperial College London, UK. His research uses earthquake seismology to constrain the structure and dynamics of the crust and mantle. He is particularly interested in understanding how continents break up by studying the seismically- and volcanically-active East African Rift System. Ian also has a long-standing interest in the formation and evolution the cratonic cores of the continents, particularly northern Canada.
Sections: Geodynamics and tectonics; Seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2019.
A. Biggin
ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4164-5924
Geomagnetism Laboratory, Oliver Lodge Labs, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZE, UK
Andy Biggin is a Professor of Palaeomagnetism at the University of Liverpool’s Geomagnetism Lab where he arrived in 2009 after working at labs in Mexico, France, and the Netherlands. He is mainly involved in the field of fundamental palaeomagnetism: using the magnetism of rocks to study the behaviour and evolution of the Earth’s magnetic field over a wide range of timescales (decades to billions of years). Primary research interests focus on the use of palaeomagnetic records to provide insights into how processes occurring in the core, mantle, and crust of the planet interact with one another.
Joined GJI Board 2010
L. Boschi
ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6051-6098
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
E-mail: lapo.boschi@unipd.it
Lapo Boschi is associate professor at the University of Padua, Italy. His work revolves around the propagation of acoustic and elastic waves in complex environments, and in applying concepts in wave physics to make inferences about the internal structure of the Earth and other media. He is generally interested in interdisciplinary applications of theoretical acoustics and seismology, ranging from geodynamics, to medical imaging, to the auditory display of seismic data.
Sections: Seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2016
H. Chauris
École de Mines, ParisTech, France
E-mail: herve.chauris@mines-paristech.fr
Hervé Chauris is a professor of geophysics at Mines ParisTech. His main research interests are seismic wave propagation and seismic imaging, in particular the determination of the long scale structures of the Earth. He has developed a number of algorithms to characterise the sub-surface by looking and analysing seismic data in different domains (e.g. before or after imaging) and according to different criteria (e.g. data misfit, focusing). He is interested in better understanding the physics of wave propagation as an essential step for extracting information out of the data. He has been able to transpose his experience on seismic imaging to electrical resistivity tomography. The main applications have been developed in the context of exploration geophysics and near surface characterisation.
Joined GJI Board 2017
G. Choblet
ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0220-9233
Université de Nantes, France
Gaël Choblet is a CNRS researcher at Université de Nantes, France. His research projects focus on the interior of terrestrial planets (including the Earth), and icy moons of various dimensions (such as Enceladus, Europa or Ganymede). He develops numerical tools describing the dynamics of planetary interiors in order to address topics such as solid-state convection of planetary mantles including the effects of tidal heating or melting, the relationships between mantle heat transfer and core dynamos and the topographic and gravimetric signature of mantle convection.
Joined GJI Board 2016
J. Collier
Dept. Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London
Email: jenny.collier@imperial.ac.uk
Jenny Collier is a Professor of Marine Geophysics at Imperial College London. Her work primarily involves the inversion and interpretation of datasets collected at sea (active source seismology, gravity, magnetics, MBES and side-scan sonar). Her main research interest is the relationship between tectonics and magmatism in a range of different settings, including mid-ocean ridges, passive margins and subduction zones. Further research interests include Quaternary and modern-day processes on continental shelves.
Joined GJI Board 2018
A. Ferreira
University College London, Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Email a.ferreira@ucl.ac.uk
Ana Ferreira is a reader in seismology at University College London (UCL), UK. She studies deep Earth structure and earthquake source processes to obtain an integrated understanding of the processes controlling the Earth's dynamic behaviour from the surface down to the lowermost mantle. Her research work includes the development of new methods for forward and inverse modelling of seismic and, more recently, geodetic data at regional and global scales. She is also involved in the joint analysis of seismic tomography and geodynamical modelling.
Section: Seismology
Joined GJI Board 2016
E. Fukuyama
ORCID ID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9405-9155
Dept. Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan
E-mail: fuku@bosai.go.jp
Eiichi Fukuyama is a Principal Senior Researcher at Dept. Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan. His research interests cover earthquake rupture dynamics including numerical modelling of earthquake rupture propagation along complicated fault system, investigation of stress field around the earthquake focal area, experimental approach for the investigation of constitutive relation of earthquake rupture, and near-fault waveform modelling of earthquake rupture.
Joined GJI Board 2010
K. Heki
Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
E-mail: heki@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp
Kosuke Heki is a professor of Earth and Planetary Dynamics in the Department of Natural History Sciences at Hokkaido University. His main research interest is space geodesy, especially positioning and atmospheric sensing with GNSS, satellite gravimetry, and its applications for geodynamics. His current research interest also covers crustal deformation near plate boundaries, earth rotation, and geodetic approaches in climate change studies.
Sections: Geodynamics and space geodesy.
Joined GJI Board 2013
R. Holme
Jane Herdman Laboratories, University of Liverpool, UK
E-mail: r.t.holme@liverpool.ac.uk
Richard Holme is a professor of Geophysics in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Liverpool. His primary research focus is in observational geomagnetism, both modelling of data (particularly from satellites) and using the models to constrain the physics of the deep Earth, particularly the core-mantle boundary region. He has more general interests in all aspects of the Earth's magnetic field, geophysical inverse theory and data modelling in general, Earth rotation, dynamo theory, and all areas of geophysics applied to the core.
Sections: Geomagnetism, rock magnetism and palaeomagnetism; Marine geosciences and applied geophysics.
Joined GJI Board 2004
K. Key
Columbia University
E-mail: kkey@ldeo.columbia.edu
Kerry Key is a professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University in the City of New York. His main research focus is using electromagnetic geophysical methods to map fluids in the crust and mantle underneath the oceans at mid-ocean ridges, subduction zones and on the continental shelves, with over 420 days spent at sea during 42 research cruises. He recently completed three months of field work in Antarctica to map subglacial groundwater. Key's other main focus is the development and application of electromagnetic inversion methods for applied exploration and tectonic imaging, including adaptive 2D and 3D finite-element methods and Bayesian inversion for estimating nonlinear model resolution and uncertainty.
G. Laske
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, CA, USA
E-mail: glaske@ucsd.edu
Gabi Laske is a research geophysicist at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, where she has worked since 1994. Her primary research interests are the analysis of long-period seismic signals and seismic tomography on regional and global scales. Her most recent efforts include the extension of long-term passive seismic surveys to the ocean floor. Further research interests include the assembly of reference global models of crustal, mantle and core structure and the analysis of ambient noise.
Sections: Geodynamics and tectonics; Marine geoscience and applied geophysics; Seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2004
A. Maineult
Sorbonne University, France
E-mail: alexis.maineult@sorbonne-universite.fr
Alexis Maineult is a CNRS researcher at Sorbonne University, France. His main research interests focus on hydrogeophysics, in particular the self-potential (SP) and induced polarization (IP) methods, and rock physics, in particular the transport properties of porous media. He performs laboratory and field experiments to study the link between electrical and hydraulic properties of porous materials. He also develops numerical tools to study the upscaling of these properties, such as pore network modelling.
Joined GJI Board 2017
L. Métivier
Université Grenoble Alpes - Grenoble, France
E-mail: Ludovic.Metivier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Ludovic Métivier is a CNRS researcher in applied mathematics, at the University of Grenoble Alpes. His research activity focuses on seismic imaging in a strong collaboration with geophysicists, in the framework of the SEISCOPE consortium. His work is dedicated to seismic wave propagation modelling and full waveform inversion. A list of key words summarizing his contribution to the field would include: absorbing layers, iterative solvers for frequency-domain solution, second-order numerical optimization scheme, preconditioning through asymptotic approximations, and more recently optimal transport distance.
Joined GJI Board 2016
A. Morelli
Sezione di Bologna - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via Donato Creti 12, 40128 Bologna, Italy
Andrea Morelli is Chief Scientist at Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy. His scientific interests mostly focus on modelling seismic waves to image the Earth's interior and earthquake sources through use of tomographic inverse techniques and, more recently, applying 3D numerical wave propagation methods at regional, continental and global scale. His interests involve the interpretation of seismological models for understanding underlying geodynamic processes of the lithosphere and upper mantle. He has also been involved in managing geophysical instrumentation projects.
Joined GJI Board 2011
E. Petrovsky
ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7792-9123
Institute of Geophysics, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
E-mail: edp@ig.cas.cz
Eduard Petrovsky graduated from solid state physics and completed a PhD in geophysics. Since 2003 he has been a Chair of Department of Geomagnetism at the Institute of Geophysics, The Czech Academy of Sciences. His main research interests are rock magnetism and its environmental applications. Although his first published paper was dealing with paleomagnetism, the scope of subjects of his published papers range from basic rock magnetism through magnetic properties of polluted soils, palaeoclimatic studies to research of nano and microparticles for biomedical applications. The core of his expertise is in magnetic properties of environmental samples (soils, sediments, atmospheric dust). Besides research, he regularly give lectures on Rock Physics at the Charles University in Prague and lectures on Environmental Magnetism in Prague, Brno and Helsinki.
Joined GJI Board 2012
S. Ni
Professor of Geophysics, State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth’s Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Wuhan, China
E-mail: sdni@whigg.ac.cn
Sidao Ni is a seismologist at the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is interested in identifying and understanding triplicated, multi-pathed or converted seismic phases on seismograms, which are then used to study seismic sources or internal interfaces of the Earth. He found sharp lateral boundaries inside the deep mantle, and demonstrated that the 2004 great Sumatra earthquake featured the longest rupture size and source duration among all instrumentally recorded seismic events. He and colleagues also discovered new persistent localized microseismic sources in the Gulf of Guinea and near the Vanuatu Islands.
Joined GJI Board 2019
R.-É. Plessix
Shell Technology Centre of Amsterdam, Grasweg 31, 1031HW Amsterdam, The Netherlands
E-mail: reneedouard.plessix@shell.com
René-Édouard Plessix is principal researcher at Shell Global Solutions International and associate professor at Institut Physique du Globle de Paris. His major research interests are in geophysical inverse theory and in crustal imaging from active seismic and electromagnetic data. The main applications of his work are in exploration geophysics.
Joined GJI Board 2013
M.H. Ritzwoller
Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0390, USA
E-mail: michael.ritzwoller@colorado.edu
Michael Ritzwoller is a Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His main research interest is seismic tomography with particular emphasis on methodological innovations to reveal information about the crust and mantle, including isotropic structure, thermal structure, anelasticity, and anisotropy. He is particularly interested in methods to draw robust inferences in seismic inversions using surface waves, body waves and free oscillations. Recent research has focused on studies of the lithosphere beneath North America and China, and some recent work has been dedicated to topics of relevance to nuclear monitoring, environmental geophysics, and seismic hazard assessment.
Joined GJI Board 2013
M. Schimmel
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Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera – CSIC, Earth's Structure and Dynamics, Lluis Sole and Sabaris s/n, Barcelona, 08028, Spain
E-mail: schimmel@ictja.csic.es
Martin Schimmel is a research geophysicist with the Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera – CSIC, Spain. His main research interests lie in the field of observational seismology with emphasis on the detection and identification of seismic signals, and the different strategies to image, monitor and constrain seismic structure using data from passive or active sources.
He has developed different techniques to improve weak-signal detection to increase constraints on the fine structure of the Earth. Recent research include ambient noise characterization, noise source localization, monitoring and imaging studies.
Joined GJI Board in 2015
M. Seguo
British Geological Survey, The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh EH14 4AP
E-mail: msegou@bgs.ac.uk
After her dissertation at the University of Athens (NKUA), Margarita Segou held postdoctoral positions and a fellowship at the US Geological Survey (Menlo Park) and at GeoAzur-CNRS (Nice) before she joined the British Geological Survey in 2015. Her major interests are related to the physical processes of earthquake nucleation across different scales involving short and long-term stress-mediated fault interactions. She addresses problems from short-term subduction zones hazards, time-dependent seismic hazards, operational aftershock forecasts, earthquake probabilities and fault potential in natural and induced seismicity cases by integrating complex physical and laboratory laws on existing empirical/statistical models.
Joined GJI Board in 2019
Frederik Simons
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Princeton University, NJ 08544, USA
E-mail: fjsimons@princeton.edu
Professor Frederik J. Simons is a geophysicist in the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University, where he is also an Associated Faculty member in the Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics. A native of Belgium, Simons received his M.Sc. in Geology from the KU Leuven, and a Ph.D. in Geophysics from M.I.T.
Frederik is a geologically inspired, geophysically educated, computationally motivated and mathematically minded geoscientist interested in the seismic, gravitational, mechanical, thermal, and magnetic properties of the Earth’s lithosphere and mantle — and of the terrestrial planets and moons. He enjoys analyzing complex, large, and heterogeneous geophysical data sets, and designs theoretical and computational inverse methods and statistical techniques to be able to do so — especially for processes, modelled on a sphere, that are noisily and partially observed by satellites. Since no amount of sophistication can cure a fundamental data limitation, he is developing autonomously operating floating instrumentation to open up the sparsely instrumented oceanic domains for global seismic tomography.
Joined GJI Board in 2017
C. Tape
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Associate Professor of Geophysics, Geophysical Institute and Department of Geosciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, USA
E-mail: ctape@alaska.edu
Carl Tape is a seismologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He applies techniques in computational and observational seismology to obtain better images of Earth's internal structure and to obtain better representations of earthquakes. Within his research he uses three-dimensional numerical simulations to model the seismic wavefield and to calculate volumetric sensitivities for the seismic imaging problem. He is interested in seismic moment tensors and their uncertainties, and he has led two deployments of seismometers is remote regions of Alaska.
Joined GJI Board 2018
I. Vasconcelos
Dept. of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
E-mail: i.vasconcelos@uu.nl
Ivan Vasconcelos is Assistant Professor of Applied Geoscience at Utrecht University. Before joining academia in 2016, Ivan worked as an industrial research scientist, first at Ion Geophysical and later at Schlumberger Gould Research. His research interests broadly revolve around wave & diffusion phenomena, inverse problems, imaging science, and new frontiers in geophysical imaging: in particular seismic imaging at all scales, radar imaging for Earth and planetary studies, material science/rock physics in imaging problems, and connections between geophysical and other imaging fields, such as medicine and engineering. In terms of disciplines, he has expertise geophysics, inverse problems, information theory and learning algorithms, wave physics and acoustics, applied mathematics, geophysical computing, rock physics and material science.
Joined GJI Board 2019
B. Vermeersen
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 15 2788272
E-mail: L.L.A.Vermeersen@tudelft.nl
Bert Vermeersen is a professor at the TU Delft Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and the TU Delft Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences in the Netherlands. His main geophysical research interests are at the interface between solid-earth geodynamics and earth-oriented space research, notably on glacial isostatic adjustment and associated sea-level variations, co- and postseismic deformation, and geoid and gravity variations due solid-earth dynamics. He is involved in both numerical modelling of these various geodynamical processes and in their observation by means of space-borne techniques such as GPS, satellite gravity and satellite altimetry.
Section: Geodynamics and tectonics.
Joined GJI Board 2011
J. Virieux
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Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble
E-mail: Jean.Virieux@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr
Jean Virieux is a Professor of Geophysics at the Université Grenoble Alpes. His research interests cover topics on seismic wave propagation for seismic source modelling and for seismic imaging. Both kinematic and dynamic finite earthquake sources are of interest to him in order to better predict ground motion. Both active seismic field related to seismic exploration and passive seismic monitoring related to geodynamics or reservoir tracking have concentrated his modelling effort. A few key words may be listed where he has made contributions: seismic tomography; numerical modelling (Finite Difference, Finite Volume), dynamic rupture modelling of earthquakes, ray theory, ray seismograms, asymptotic theory of wave propagation, waveform inversion (Born or Rytov approximation), inverse problems.
Joined GJI Board 2006
U. Weckmann
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Section 2.2, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
E-mail: ute.weckmann@gfz-potsdam.de
Ute Weckmann obtained her PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin. With an Emmy-Noether Fellowship of the German Science Foundation she did her PostDoc at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland, before joining GFZ in 2006. Her primary research interests are on various aspects of geomagnetic induction in the Earth. Over the last couple of years, she has been involved in many large scale magnetotelluric experiments to investigate active and fossil tectonic regimes in all parts of the world, particularly within multi-disciplinary, integrative projects. Another focus is laid on the combination of geodynamic with applied research on e.g. imaging and modelling geothermal and unconventional gas systems. She has worked on electromagnetic data processing, modelling and inversion methods as well as on electrical anisotropy.
Joined GJI Board 2013
H. Yao
University of Science and Technology of China
E-mail: hjyao@ustc.edu.cn
Huajian Yao is a professor of geophysics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. at UTSC, and Ph.D. in geophysics at MIT. His main research interests include seismic tomography/imaging of crust and upper mantle structure using earthquake and ambient noise data, lithospheric anisotropy and deformation, kinematic rupture process and seismic radiation of large earthquakes, seismic array data analysis, and geophysical inversion methods. His recent research focuses on the development of joint inversion methods for better constraining seismic structure of the Earth, lithospheric deformation and tectonics of the Tibetan Plateau and southeast Asia, dense array seismology using passive and active sources, and multi-scale inversion of earthquake rupture.
Joined GJI Board 2018
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