Heiner Igel

(Seismology)

Heiner Igel

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Geophysics
Munich University
Theresienstr. 41
80333 Munich
Germany

Room: 440
Phone: +49 (89) 2180-4204
Fax: +49 (89) 2180-4205

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Vita

• Geb. 1963 in Stuttgart
• 1982: Abitur, Max Planck Gynasium Nürtingen
  
• 1982-1990: Studies in Geophysics, TU Karlsruhe
  
• 1987-1989: Research student at Edinburgh University (collab. with Prof. Stuart Crampin)
  
• 1990: Diplom in Geophysics TU Karlsruhe: Seismic Anisotropy and shear wave splitting
  
• 1990-1993: PhD Student IPG Paris (Supervision by Prof. Albert Tarantola and Prof. Peter Mora)
  
• 1993:  PhD University of Paris (with distinction), Thesis: Seismic modeling and inversion
  
• 1994-1999: Research scientist, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge, England
• 1998-1999: DFG Heisenberg fellow  
  
• since 1999: Professor of Seismology/Geophysics LMU Munich 
  
• since 2009: Visiting Faculty Member, ROSE School, Pavia, Italy
  
• since 2016: Member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina (more)            

Major Research Areas:
Development and application of computational methods to simulate and invert seismic wave propagation. Earthquake scenario simulations and aspects of shaking hazard in seismically active regions. Full waveform inversion of seismograms for Earth’s structure. Global wave propagation, deep structure and related geodynamic issues.  Observations, theory and modelling of rotational ground motions with optical technologies and its application to structural inversion, source processes and earthquake engineering. External forcing of seismic events. See movie on ROMY ring laser from Science here.

Activities:

• Bavarian Seismic Network (www.erdbebendienst.de)
• International Working Group on Rotational Seismology (www.rotational-seismology.org)
  
• Coordinator of Research and Training Network SPICE (www.spice-rtn.org)
• Coordinator of Initial Training Network QUEST (www.quest-itn.org)
• ERC 2013 Advanced Grant Recipient (more)
• ERC Project ROMY (www.romy-erc.eu)
• COURSERA open online course on numerical methods (www.coursera.org, started February 2019)