Prof. Dr. Andreas Fichtner

Profil

Andreas Fichtner is Full Professor for Seismology and Wave Physics at ETH Zurich. In January 2010, he received his PhD from the externe SeiteUniversity of Munichcall_made for his work on Full Seismic Waveform Inversion for Structural and Source Parameters. During his postdoc at externe SeiteUtrecht Universitycall_made, Andreas worked on the development of resolution analysis and multi-scale methods for seismic waveform inversion.

Andreas' principal research interests include the development and application of methods for full seismic waveform inversion, resolution analysis in tomography, earthquake source inversion, seismic interferometry, and inverse theory. For his work, Andreas received the 2011 externe SeiteKeiiti Aki Awardcall_made from the American Geophysical Union, the 2015 externe SeiteEarly Career Scientist Awardcall_made from the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, and the 2018 externe SeiteHoffmann Prizecall_made from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2018, he acts as associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research.