Marta Pienkowska-Cote

Marta Pienkowska-Cote

Staff of Professorship for Seismology and Wave Physics

ETH Zürich

Institut für Geophysik

NO H 23

Sonneggstrasse 5

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

Marta is a Postdoc in the Seismology and Wave Physics group at ETH Zurich. She joined in October 2019, after completing her PhD in computational seismology at the University of Oxford. She holds a Master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris (UPMC, currently Sorbonne University).

During her PhD Marta developed a hybrid method for modelling 3-D teleseismic propagation of high-frequency body waves. In collaboration with the Forensic Seismology department at AWE Blacknest, she then used the method to study the near-source, small-scale effects of sharp topography on 2Hz P-waves from the USSR nuclear explosions of the 1960s-1980s.

Currently Marta is working for the external pageEuropean Centre of Excellence in Solid Earth (ChEESE), where she is exploring the possibilities of employing urgent supercomputing to improve regional hazard affectation maps within hours after an earthquake. She is interested in high-frequency forward modelling, exploring the parameter space and model assumptions, and the sensitivity to uncertainties in model parameters. She is also planning to delve into the world of full-waveform inversion.

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