Professor in Global Seismology
Global Seismology
Biography
- Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK, 2020-now
- Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK, 2015-2020
- Research Associate, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK, 2013-2015
- Drapers' Company Research Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK 2013-2015
- PhD, Global Seismology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, May 2013
- MSc, Geophysics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, Aug 2008
Research
I am a global seismologist, studying the structure and dynamics of the deep Earth by using waves from strong earthquakes which are recorded across the globe. The interests of my research group include:
- Constraining anomalous structures above the core-mantle boundary and their role in the history and dynamics of the Earth; currently funded by an ERC Starting Grant, ZoomDeep (2019-2024)
- Mapping seismic discontinuities to infer temperature and heterogeineity in the mantle transition zone and understand the role of the mantle transition zone in global dynamics;
- Studying seismic anisotropy caused by flow in the lowermost mantle;
- Contributing to open source toolkits to combine the knowledge and constraints from different disciplines, see https://github.com/geodynamics/burnman.
Publications
Key publications:
Recent publications can be found in the publications database here
Teaching and Supervisions
Research supervision:
If you are interested in a PhD in global seismology, new NERC funded scholarships will be published online every October.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
