Research opportunities
Opportunities for PhD studies are generally advertised in December for a start in the next academic year, with the application deadlines typically in January. Applications are primarily invited through the Oxford Doctoral Training Programme.
Researchers looking for postdoctoral opportunities should get in touch to discuss project ideas and funding opportunities. I have ample experience with fellowship and funding applications and can provide advice. It is wise to start discussions early (a year or more in advance) due to funder deadlines.
Undergraduate or other students, looking for a MSc project or a short-term research experience in seismology, please get in touch with me and we can discuss possible projects.
Current research projects
- Density structure of the lower mantle and implications for mantle dynamics
- Multi-scale topography of the Earth's core-mantle boundary
- Backus-Gilbert tomography of isotropic and anisotropic mantle structure
- Influence of approximations in normal mode modelling
- Robust imaging of mantle upwellings
- Comparions of geodynamic and tomographic models of the mantle
- Seismological proxies for phase transitions in the deep mantle
- Variations in anthropogenic seismic noise sources
- Background seismicity & seismic noise in London
Current DEEPSCAPE members
DEEPSCAPE group members, November 2022
- Franck Latallerie: Imaging mantle upwellings under oceanic islands (NERC PDRA since 2023)
- Sixtine Dromigny: Seismic noise interferometry for detecting fluids in geothermal settings (Oxford PhD since 2023, primary supervisor)
- Lara Boudinot: Effect of anthropogenic seismic noise on large mammals (Oxford PhD since 2023, co-supervisor)
- Adrian Mag: Multi-scale CMB topography (Oxford PhD since 2022, primary supervisor)
- Miguel Pinto-Ward: Seismicity and seismic noise in London (Oxford PhD since 2022, primary supervisor)
- Justin Leung: Temperature and composition of the lower mantle (Oxford PhD since 2022, co-supervisor)
- Sam Scivier: Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment using ML (Oxford PhD since 2022, co-supervisor)
- Viktoria Trautner: Iron spin transition in ferropericlase (Oxford PhD since 2021, co-supervisor)
Former students
- Federica Restelli (now at Guralp): Global Backus-Gilbert seismic tomography (RHUL PhD 2019 - 2023, primary supervisor)
- Harriet Godwin (now at CMS Law): Multi-scale studies of lower mantle structure (Oxford PhD 2015 - 2020, co-supervisor)
- Alice Turner (PhD University of Oxford, now at University of Texas): Spin transition effect in global tomography (UCL summer project 2019, primary supervisor)
- Ana Pagu (PhD University of Oxford): Tomographic proxies for post-perovskite (Oxford Master's 2017 - 2018, primary supervisor)
- Judit Gonzalez Santana (PhD Penn State University, now at NV5 Geospatial): Body wave studies of CMB topography (Oxford Master's 2016 - 2017, primary supervisor)
- William Rees (now at Goldman Sachs): Seismic signals of elephant behaviour and communication (Oxford Master's 2016 - 2017, co-supervisor)
Research funding
Mid Mantle Mysteries
Royal Society URF renewal (2025 - 2028)
Enhanced Research Expenses for URF
Royal Society (2023 - 2025)
What makes a city move?
Royal Society Research Grant (2022 - 2023)
Enhanced Research Expenses for URF
Royal Society (2021 - 2023)
Seismic noise sources and background seismicity in London
Philip Leverhulme Prize, Leverhulme Trust (2022 - 2025)
Mantle Circulation Constrained (MC2): A multidisciplinary 4D Earth framework for understanding mantle upwellings
NERC Large Grant, led by PI Huw Davies (2020 - 2024)
Robust characterisation of large-scale flow in the deep mantle
Royal Society Enhancement Award (2018 - 2021)
Mapping seismological landscapes in the deep Earth
Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2018 - 2025)
Multi-scale imaging of the core-mantle boundary topography
Junior Research Fellowship, University College Oxford (2015 - 2018)
Imaging the Earth across the scales
ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014 - 2016)
Nahum Scholarship in Physics & Graduate Studentship
Pembroke College Cambridge (2010 - 2014)
System Earth Modelling Scholarship
Utrecht University (2008 - 2010)
Recent collaborators
- Harriet Lau, University of California, Berkeley
- Barbara Romanowicz, University of California, Berkeley
- Mark Hoggard, Australian National University
- Fred Richards, Imperial College London
- Stephen Stackhouse, University of Leeds
- Hauke Marquardt, University of Oxford
- Christophe Zaroli, EOST Strasbourg
- Sophie Lambotte, EOST Strasbourg
- Carlos Chaves, University of Sao Paulo
- Rhodri Davies, Australian National University
- Bernhard Schuberth, LMU Munich
- Jeroen Ritsema, University of Michigan
- Arwen Deuss, Utrecht University