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Frederik J. Simons home
Assistant Professor of Geophysics

Department of Geosciences
321B Guyot Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

Phone: (609) 258-2598
E-Mail: fjsimons


Life

Citizen of Belgium. Married to Pallavi Nuka.
Two children, Anika (June 18 2005) & Gautam (December 29 2006)

Employment

2006- Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geosciences
Princeton University
2004-2007 Lecturer of Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences
University College London
2002-2004 Beck Post-Doctoral Fellow, Council on Science & Technology
Hess Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Geosciences
Princeton University, Princeton NJ
2002 Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
1996-2002 Research and Teaching Assistant
Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
2001 Summer Intern
Shell International Exploration & Production, Houston, TX
1996 Summer Research Assistant
Departement Fysico-chemische geologie
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Education

1996-2002 Ph.D. in Geophysics
Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
1992-1996 B.Sc. (Kandidatuur) & M.Sc. (Licentie) Geology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
1980-1992 Onze-Lieve Vrouwecollege Jesuit School, Antwerpen, Belgium
Elementary school and High school (Greek-Latin Humaniora)

Honors

2005 Nuffield Foundation Award for Newly Appointed Science Lecturers
2004 Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing (JGR Planets)
American Geophysical Union
2001Outstanding Student Paper Award (Seismology Section)
American Geophysical Union
1998 Teaching Assistant Excellence Award
Department of EAPS, MIT
1998 Victor J. DeCorte Fellowship, MIT
1998Student Research Fund Travel grant to Australia
Department of EAPS, MIT
1997Teaching Assistant Excellence Award
Department of EAPS, MIT
1997 Biennial prize for an M.Sc. thesis in geology
Beroepsvereniging van Leuvense Geologen
1996-1997 Honorary Fellow, Belgian American Educational Foundation
1996-1997 Grantee, The Fulbright Program
1996-1997 Ambassadorial Scholar, Rotary International Foundation
1994 The Scottish Universities International Summer School:
scholarship to attend the Summer School's session
on Postmodern English Literature, Edinburgh
1993 Katholieke Universiteit Brussel: scholarship to attend the
Scottish Universities International Summer School
on Modernist English Literature, Edinburgh
1992Primus perpetuus
Onze-Lieve Vrouwecollege Jesuit School, Antwerpen, Belgium

Editorial

Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth)
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Earth & Planetary Science Letters

Reviewer, in excess of 90 papers and proposals for AGU Monographs, Comput. Geosci., Earth Planets Space, Earth Planet. Sc. Lett., EOS, Trans. Am. Geoph. Union, G-Cubed, Geology, Geophys. J. Intern., Geophys. Res. Lett., GSA Spec. Pub., IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc.. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation, Phys. Earth. Planet. Int., Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. A, U.K. Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council, U.S. National Science Foundation.

Funding

NSF, EAR-0710860, 2007-2010.
ESF, MYRES 2006 Conference Grant, 2006.
SRIF3, Equipment Grant for Observational Seismology, 2006.
NERC, New Investigator Award, 2005-2008.
Nuffield Foundation, Newly Appointed Science Lecturers Award, 2005-2007.

Languages

Active: Dutch, French, English
Passive: German

Memberships

Member, American Geophysical Union
Member, European Geosciences Union
Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Invited

10/14/2008 University College London London, UK
04/17/2008 Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting Santa Fe, NM
12/12/2007 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting San Francisco, CA
11/09/2007 Richard L. Hay Lecture in Geology Urbana-Champaign, IL
09/05/2007 Workshop on Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics Carry-le-Rouet, France
08/28/2007 SPIE Wavelets XII Conference San Diego, CA
07/19/2007 International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics Zürich, Switzerland
06/26/2007 Conference on Applied Inverse Problems Vancouver, BC
04/21/2007 Undur veraldar Public Lecture Series, University of Iceland Reykjavík, Iceland
11/11/2006 University College London London, UK
10/11/2006 Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington, DC
03/21/2006 Birkbeck College London, APEX London, UK
03/16/2006 Imperial College, Department of Earth Science and Engineering London, UK
03/10/2006 Imperial College, Department of Mathematics London, UK
02/23/2006 Cambridge University, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics Cambridge, UK
02/13/2006 University of Stuttgart, Institute of Geodesy Stuttgart, Germany
01/27/2006 Oxford University Oxford, UK
1999-2005 For previous years, see here

Oral

2007 IUGG Meeting Int. Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Perugia, Italy
2007 IUGG Meeting Int. Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Perugia, Italy
2006 Fall Meeting American Geophysical Union San Francisco, CA
2006 SIAM Annual Meeting Soc. Industrial & Applied Mathematics Boston, MA
2006 Univ. College London DESMOND SymposiumLondon, UK
1997-2004 For previous years, see here

Poster

2007 Fall Meeting American Geophysical Union San Francisco, CA
2006 Fall Meeting American Geophysical Union San Francisco, CA
2006 Fall Meeting American Geophysical Union San Francisco, CA
2006 Spring Meeting European Geosciences Union Vienna, Austria
2006 Teach & Learn University College London London, UK
2005 Fall Meeting American Geophysical Union San Francisco, CA
2005 Fall Meeting American Geophysical Union San Francisco, CA
2005 Spring Meeting European Geosciences Union Vienna, Austria
1997-2004 For previous years, see here

Attended

2007 Princeton University F. A. Dahlen SymposiumPrinceton, NJ
2005 University of Leeds DESMOND SymposiumLeeds, UK
1998 Delft Technical Univ. School on Wavelets in the GeosciencesDelft, the Netherlands
1997 NASA Goddard Techniques of Remote SensingGreenbelt, MD

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