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Jun 21, 2025

Results from Geodynamics Group on cover of Proc. Royal Soc. A

The cover of the recent issue 2315 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A features a figure of the modeled global stress field obtained from an analytic asthenosphere flow model together with the flow lines obtained from a high resolution global mantle circulation model from a paper by lead author N. Hayek.

May 28, 2025

Berta Vilacis win OSPP award of the EGU

Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) award granted to Berta Vilacis for her poster EGU25-11583 Tracking dynamic topography through hiatus surfaces by Berta Vilacís et al. at the EGU.

Nov 27, 2024

Results from Geodynamics Group on cover of Proc. Royal Soc. A

Nov 06, 2024

PD Dr. Elena Kronberg awarded DFG research grant through the Heisenberg program

Jul 09, 2024

Artem Smirnov awarded Friedrich-Robert-Helmert-Prize

Jun 10, 2024

Sabrina Keil wins "Promotionspreis der LMU"

Jun 02, 2024

Profs Bozdag and Buergmann visit to the Geophysics Section

We welcome Professor E. Bozdag (Colorado School of Mines) and Professor R. Buergmann (UC Berkeley), who will visit the Geophysics Section on June 3-4.

Mar 11, 2024

Zihua Niu wins AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award

Congratulations!

Sep 15, 2023

AGU Macelwane Medal for Prof Gabriel

Congratulations to Professor Alice Gabriel for winning the 2023 Macelwane Award.

Aug 02, 2023

Jason Morgan passed away

Jason Morgan passed away on Sunday, July 30th. He was a dear colleague and friend. He will be missed, peter

Jul 07, 2023

Andreas Brotzer wins Best Student Poster Award

4th International Workshop on Gravitomagnetism and Large-Scale Rotation Measurement

Jun 13, 2023

Detecting dipolarity of the geomagnetic field in the paleomagnetic record

A team led by LMU geophysicist Florian Lhuillier reports in PNAS

Dec 02, 2022

Best Student Presentation Award for Berta Vilacis

Dec 02, 2022

GSA Distinguished Career Award to Prof Friedrich

Professor A. Friedrich (Chair of Geology, LMU received the GSA Distinguished Career Award

Sep 26, 2022

Email Service Operational Again

Sep 26, 2022

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Aug 31, 2022

BMBF to fund CoMPS project

Jul 16, 2022

Tom Shankland passed away

Tom Shankland, a pioneer in mineral physics, died peacefully on June 26.

May 01, 2022

Geophysics: Better insights into Earth’s interior

Mar 28, 2022

DFG approves DeepDyn SPP co-ordinated by Prof. Gilder

Jan 27, 2022

Dynamics of mega earthquakes and tsunamis unraveled in Nature Geoscience

A team led by LMU geophysicist Thomas Ulrich reports in Nature Geoscience

Nov 18, 2021

New Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) approved by DFG

A new Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) has been approved by DFG. The RTG will use geological and geodetic techniques to improve our understanding of mantle convection/lithosphere interaction as revealed by broad scale uplift and subsidence movement. The RTG with the name UPLIFT includes faculty from TUM and LMU with Prof Pail (TUM, Chair of Geodesy) as speaker and Prof Bunge (LMU, Chair of Geophysics) as co-speaker.

Nov 17, 2021

2021 GW Hohmann Career Achievement Award for Max Moorkamp

Professor Moorkamp wins the 2021 GW Hohmann Career Achievement Award. Congratulations!

Nov 08, 2021

TETHYS-3G to come

DFG approves funding for the renewal of our in-house cluster system.

Nov 05, 2021

DFG 2022 Calendar will show Geodynamic Simulations

The German Science Foundation (DFG) has selected an image for the November page of the 2022 DFG calendar that visualizes time dependent geodynamic earth models.

Nov 03, 2021

Applications for the International Masters Programme in Geophysics

Application window opened on 03 Nov 2021.

Oct 05, 2021

Nobel Prize goes to Geophysicist

Klaus Hasselmann is among this years Nobel Laureates in Physics. The price is awarded in part for work on climate modeling.

Jun 25, 2021

Andreas Brotzer wins AGU Paros Fellowship

Student scholarships for geophysical instrumentation

Jun 09, 2021

Simon Schneider gewinnt Potsdamer Preis für Wissenschaftskommunikation

Preis geht an neuen Mitarbeiter im Bereich Geophysik

Mar 13, 2021

Munich Geocenter Dissertation award 2021 to Dr. Horbach

Congratulations to A. Horbach: The Munich Geocenter has awarded a dissertation prize to Dr. Andre Horbach for his outstanding thesis work on inverse-geodynamic modelling.