Life
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Employment
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| 2019-present |
Associate Chair, |
| 2017-present |
Professor, |
| 2013-2017 |
Associate Professor, |
| 2006-2013 |
Assistant Professor,
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Department of Geosciences
Princeton University, Princeton NJ |
| 2019- |
Associated Faculty,
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, |
| 2018- |
Associated Faculty,
High Meadows Environmental Institute, |
| 2012- |
Associated Faculty,
Program in Applied and
Computational Mathematics,
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| 2010-2013 |
Dusenbury University Preceptor
of Geological and Geophysical Sciences |
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Princeton University, Princeton NJ |
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| 2010-2022 |
Visiting Fellow,
KU Leuven (Aard- en Omgevingswetenschappen)
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| 2018 & 2023 |
Member,
Institute for Advanced Study (Astrophysics)
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| 2014-2015 |
Visitor,
Institute for Advanced Study (Astrophysics & Cosmology)
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| 2013 |
Visitor,
University of Cambridge
(Bullard Laboratories)
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| 2012 |
Visitor, Université Libre de Bruxelles
(Mechanics & Applied Mathematics)
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| 2011 |
Visiting Fellow,
University College London (Statistical Sciences)
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| 2010 |
Visitor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(Mathematics)
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| 2009 |
Visiting Professor,
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
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| 2008 |
Visiting Professor,
ETH Zürich |
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| 2004-2007 |
Lecturer of Geophysics, Department of Earth
Sciences
University College London, London, UK |
| 2002-2004 |
Beck Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Council on Science & Technology
Hess Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Department of Geosciences
Princeton University, Princeton NJ
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| 2002 |
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and
Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge MA
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| 1996-2002 |
Research and Teaching Assistant
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and
Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge MA
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| 2001 |
Summer Research Intern
Shell International
Exploration & Production, Houston, TX
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| 1996 |
Summer Research Assistant
Departement Fysico-chemische
Geologie
KU
Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Education
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Teaching |
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Publications |
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Honors |
| 2022 |
Vladimir Keilis-Borok Medal for contributions to mathematical geophysics
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
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| 2018 |
Distinguished Lecturer
IRIS/Seismological Society of America
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| 2014-2019 |
Fellow of the Faculty of Sciences
Faculteit Wetenschappen, KU Leuven
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| 2016 |
Outstanding Reviewer
Geophysical Journal International |
| 2012 |
NSF CAREER Award
National Science Foundation
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| 2008 |
Prix quadriennal Charles Lagrange for contributions to mathematical geophysics
Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
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| 2005 |
Award for
Newly Appointed Science Lecturers
Nuffield Foundation
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| 2004 |
Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing
(JGR Planets)
American Geophysical Union |
| 2001 | Outstanding Student Paper
Award (Seismology Section)
American Geophysical Union |
| 1998 |
Teaching Assistant Excellence Award
Department of EAPS, MIT |
| 1998 |
Victor J. DeCorte Graduate Fellowship, MIT |
| 1998 | Student Research Fund
Travel grant to Australia
Department of EAPS, MIT |
| 1997 | Teaching 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 |
KU Brussel:
scholarship to attend the
Scottish Universities International Summer School
on Modernist English Literature, Edinburgh |
| 1992 | Primus perpetuus
Onze-Lieve Vrouwecollege
Jesuit School,
Antwerpen, Belgium |
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Editorial |
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Referee |
Reviewer of > 340 (i.e., far too many, so think twice before
suggesting me!) papers and proposals for:
Adv. Space Res.,
AGU Monographs,
Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal.,
Arab. J. Geosci.,
Artificial Satellites,
Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer.,
Cambridge U. Press,
Climatic Change,
Czech Science Foundation,
Comm. Earth Env.,
Comput. Geosci.,
Earth Planets Space,
Earth Planet. Sc. Lett.,
Earth Sci. Res. J.,
Earth Space Sci.,
EOS, Trans. Am. Geoph. Union,
European J. Phys.,
European Research Council,
European Science Foundation,
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles,
Free U. Brussels GOA,
G-Cubed,
Geology,
Geophysics,
Geophys. J. Intern.,
Geophys. Res. Lett.,
Geosphere,
GSA Spec. Pub.,
Harvard U. Press,
Icarus,
IEEE Sig. Proc. Lett..
IEEE Stat. Sig. Proc. Workshop.
IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc..
IEEE Trans. Geosc. Remote Sens..
Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers,
Institut Universitaire de France,
Int. J. Geomathematics,
Institut Universitaire de France,
J. Appl. Geophys.,
J. Coastal Conservation: Planning and Management,
J. Fourier Analysis and Applications,
J. Geodesy,
J. Geodet. Sci.,
J. Geodynamics,
J. Geophys. Eng.,
J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth,
J. Geophys. Res. Planets,
J. Roy. Stat. Soc.,
Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation,
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,
Lithosphere,
Louisiana Board of Regents,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
National Science Foundation,
Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada,
Nature Geoscience,
NWO Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research,
NSO Netherlands Space Office,
NYU Abu Dhabi REF,
Ocean Modelling,
Phys. Earth. Planet. Int.,
Princeton U. Press,
Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. Ser. A,
Reports Prog. Phys.,
Science,
Science Advances,
Seismological Research Letters,
Smithsonian Channel USA,
Solid Earth,
Studia Geophys. Geodaet.,
Surveys in Geophysics,
Swiss National Science Fonds,
Symm. Integr. Geom. Meth. Appl.,
Taylor & Francis,
The Leading Edge,
Tectonophysics,
Tectonics,
U.K. Natural Environment Research Council,
U.K. Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council,
U.S. Dept. of Defense,
U.S. Dept. of Energy,
Water Resources Res.
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Advising |
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For past and present postdocs, students and collaborators-at-large, see
here.
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Committee |
| Promotion: I have served as an external evaluator in a number
of academic tenure and promotion cases, in the United States
(6×), Canada (3×), France, India, Pakistan, and China.
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| Graduate: I have served on numerous
Ph. D. thesis,
M. Sc. thesis, and
General Exam committees, in
Geosciences,
Geodesy & Geodetic Science,
Electrical Engineering,
Applied & Computational Mathematics,
Mathematics, and
Physics Departments at Princeton University,
elsewhere in the U. S. (Colorado School of Mines, The Ohio State University),
and in
Australia (Australian National University 2×),
France (Institut de Physique du Globe Paris, Université Côte d'Azur 2×, Université Strasbourg),
Germany (Kaiserslautern 2×, Mainz, Munich, Potsdam, Siegen),
Canada (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Université du Québec à Montréal),
India (Indian Institute of Technology Madras 2×),
Pakistan (Lahore University of Management Sciences),
South Africa (University of the Witwatersrand),
The Netherlands (Delft, Utrecht),
and the United Kingdom (Imperial College).
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Undergraduate: At Princeton I have advised numerous
Junior papers (in Geosciences, Physics, Computer Science, and Operations Research),
Senior Theses (in Physics, and Geosciences).
At UCL/Birkbeck I advised M. Res, M. Sci. and B. Sc. theses, all in Geosciences.
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| Public:
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NSF, EAR-2422649, 2024-2026 (with Richard "Rick" C. Aster).
NSF, EAR-2341811, 2023-2026.
NSF, OCE-2220363, 2022-2023 (with Harold T. "Bud" Vincent).
NSF, OCE-1917058, 2019-2022 (with Jessica C. E. Irving).
NSF, EAR-1736046, 2017-2022 (with Jessica C. E. Irving).
NSF, EAR-1550389, 2016-2019 (with Alain Plattner).
NASA, NNX14AM29G, 2014-2017 (with Alain Plattner).
NSF, EAR-1318416, 2013-2016 (with Harold T. "Bud" Vincent).
NSF, PLR/EAR-1245788, 2013-2016 (with Christopher Harig).
NOAA, NA08OAR4320752, 2013-2016.
NSF, EAR-1150145 (CAREER), 2012-2017.
NASA, NNX11AQ45G, 2011-2014 (with Kevin W. Lewis).
NSF, EAR-1014606, 2010-2013 (with C. K. Shum).
NSF, EAR-0710860, 2007-2012.
NSF, EAR-0105387, 2007-2009 (with F. A. [Tony] Dahlen).
ESF, MYRES 2006 Conference Grant, 2006 (with Laurent G. J. Montési).
HEFCE, SRIF3 Equipment Grant for Observational Seismology, 2006.
NERC, New Investigator Award, 2005-2008.
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Nuffield Foundation, Newly Appointed Science Lecturers Award, 2005-2007.
DNO (2019-2023), TOTAL (2015-2022), KAUST (2017-2021), NEC (2018 & 2020),
The MathWorks (2015-2016), Princeton University.
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Languages |
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Dutch, French, English, German
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Memberships |
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| 03/15/2024 |
Ocean University of China (中国海洋大学) |
Qingdao, PRC |
| 03/14/2024 |
Nanjing University (南京大学) |
Nanjing, PRC |
| 03/13/2024 |
Peking University (北京大学) |
Beijing, PRC |
| 03/12/2024 |
Institute of Geology and Geophysics (院地质与地球物), CAS |
Beijing, PRC |
| 03/11/2024 |
University Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院大学 ) |
Beijing/Huabei, PRC |
| 02/15/2024 |
Institute for Advanced Study — Video |
Princeton, NJ |
| 10/05/2023 |
University of Illinois |
Urbana-Champaign, IL |
| 09/12/2023 |
Universiteit Hasselt |
Hasselt, Belgium |
| 09/07/2023 |
Applied Inverse Problems |
Göttingen, Germany |
| 09/04/2023 |
Applied Inverse Problems |
Göttingen, Germany |
| 07/26/2023 |
National Geophysical Research Institute |
Hyderabad, India |
| 07/17/2023 |
IUGG General Assembly |
Berlin, Germany |
| 06/19/2023 |
SIAM Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences |
Bergen, Norway |
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Invited talk given by Zhaolun Liu |
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| 05/18/2023 |
Littlebrook Elementary School Science Expo
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Princeton, NJ |
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Birthdays, Birthquakes, and The Nominal Polynomial |
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| 04/05/2023 |
Dartmouth College Cyprus Seminar |
Hanover, NH |
| 04/04/2023 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Cambridge, MA |
| 03/03/2023 |
The University of New Mexico Physics & Astronomy |
Albuquerque, NM |
| 01/13/2023 |
Princeton Clubs of the Pacific
— Video |
CA, OR, HI, JP / Zoom |
| 06/24/2022 |
BIRS Multitaper Spectral Analysis
— Video |
Banff, Canada / Zoom |
| 06/24/2022 |
Seoul National University |
Seoul, KR |
| 06/22/2022 |
Conference on Mathematical Geophysics Keynote — Video |
Seoul, KR |
| 06/08/2022 |
Ocean University of China — Video |
Qingdao / Zoom |
| 05/18/2022 |
Ocean University of China — Video |
Qingdao / Zoom |
| 04/22/2022 |
International Environmetrics Society — Video |
Zoom, The Internet |
| 03/29/2022 |
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris |
Paris, France |
| 02/16/2022 |
Conference on Mathematics of Wave Phenomena |
Karlsruhe, Ger. / Zoom |
| 1999-2021 |
See here. |
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| 2024 |
OSM-24 |
Ocean Sciences Meeting
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New Orleans, LA |
| 2022 |
AST-23 |
Argo Steering Team Meeting
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Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| 2018 |
Annual Meeting |
Geological Society of America |
Indianapolis, IN |
| 2017 |
National Meeting |
EarthScope |
Anchorage, AK |
| 2016 |
Fall Conference |
National Society of Black Physicists |
Naperville, IL |
| 2015 |
IRIS/UNAVCO |
Seismic and Geodetic Facility Needs
| Leesburg, VA |
| 2014 |
RickFest Symposium |
Harvard University
| Cambridge, MA |
| 2014 |
EarthScope Symposium |
A Decade of Geoscience
| Washington, DC |
| 2014 |
NSF |
I/UCRC Annual Meeting
| Arlington, VA |
| 2010 |
IRIS |
Experiments with Portable OBS
| Snowbird, UT |
| 2008 |
IRIS |
Long
Range Science Plan
| Lakewood, CO |
| 2007 |
Princeton University |
F. A. Dahlen Symposium | Princeton, NJ |
| 2005 |
University of Leeds |
DESMOND
Symposium | Leeds, UK |
| 1998 |
Delft Technical Univ. |
Wavelets
in the Geosciences | Delft, the
Netherlands |
| 1997 |
NASA Goddard |
Techniques of Remote
Sensing | Greenbelt, MD |
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