LAPIS 2019: La Plata International School on Astronomy and Geophysics
Inverse methods in geophysics
La Plata, Argentina, 8-12 April 2019
Mauricio D Sacchi graduated from the National
University of La Plata and he completed Doctoral and
postdoctoral studies at the University of British
Columbia, Canada. He is a professor of geophysics at
the University of Alberta since 1997 and head of the
Physics department since 2010. He directs the Signal
Analysis and Imaging Group, a consortium for research
in the area of applied seismology. He was Editor of
the Geophysics magazine in the period
2015-2017.
Juan Carlos Afonso is the current Head of the
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at
Macquarie University. After graduating with a PhD in
theoretical geophysics at Carleton University in late
2006, he undertook postdoctoral research at the
Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera (CSIC,
Barcelona) on the development of new methods to study
the thermal and compositional structures of the
lithospheric/sublithospheric upper mantle. He
subsequently joined Macquarie University in 2009 as
part of the recruitment program CoRE (Concentration of
Research Excellence). His background is in theoretical
and computational geophysics/geodynamics and his
interests span many different geophysical, geochemical
and geological methods and processes. His current
research integrates different disciplines such as
mineral physics, potential field modelling,
thermodynamics, nonlinear inversion and physics of the
mantle in general, to explore and improve our
understanding of plate tectonics.
Niklas Linde received his PhD (2005) in geophysics
from Uppsala University in Sweden. During his PhD
studies, he spent one year as a guest at Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory. He then spent one year
at CNRS-CEREGE in France before he joined the
Institute of Geophysics at ETHZ as a postdoctoral
researcher in 2006. After close to two years at ETHZ,
he moved to the University of Lausanne to become
assistant professor in Environmental Geophysics before
receiving tenure as associate professor in 2013 at the
same University. His general research direction lies
in the development of novel approaches to combine
geophysical and hydrological data for improved
subsurface hydrological characterization and process
understanding. Presently, his primary research
interest relates to probabilistic inversion and
uncertainty quantification of natural subsurface
systems and ranking of competing conceptual models
using geophysical data.
Douglas W. Oldenburg is professor at the University of
British Columbia (UBC) since 1987, holding the Senior
Keevil Chair in Mineral Exploration. He is also
Director of the UBC Geophysical Inversion Facility,
established in 1990, where pioneer research was
performed, such as the inversion of source frequency
domain EM data from multiple transmitters for mineral
applications and 3D inversion for ZTEM (Z-axis Tipper
Electromagnetics). He was selected as a SEG
Distinguished Lecturer, and also held, among other
numerous courses, the 2017 SEG Distinguished
Instructor Short Course: Geophysical Electromagnetics:
Fundamentals and Applications.