University Lecturer
Global Seismology
Sanne Cottaar is accepting applications for PhD students.
Bullard Labs
Madingley Rise,
Madingley Road,
Cambridge
CB3 0EZ
Madingley Rise,
Madingley Road,
Cambridge
CB3 0EZ
Email:
sc845@cam.ac.uk
Office Phone:
+44 (0) 1223 748938
Websites:
Biography:
- University Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK, 2015-now
- 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 themes
Research Interests
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 (2019-2023)
- 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 knowlede and constraints from different disciplines, see www.burnman.org.
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.
Key Publications
Recent publications can be found in the publications database here
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