DFG approves DeepDyn SPP co-ordinated by Prof. Gilder
A team led by LMU geophysicist Thomas Ulrich reports in Nature Geoscience
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.
Professor Moorkamp wins the 2021 GW Hohmann Career Achievement Award. Congratulations!
DFG approves funding for the renewal of our in-house cluster system.
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.
Application window opened on 03 Nov 2021.
Klaus Hasselmann is among this years Nobel Laureates in Physics. The price is awarded in part for work on climate modeling.
Student scholarships for geophysical instrumentation
Preis geht an neuen Mitarbeiter im Bereich Geophysik
Mr. Schliwa impressed with his presentation at the 2021 Annual Meeting.
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.
A new training network in seismology with 15 PhD positions across Europe soon to start.
Sabrina Keil wins AGU 2020 Fall Meeting Outstanding Student Paper Award!
Heiner Igel on "The Impact of the Lockdown on Seismology" on the CAS Blog
Application window opens on 01 Nov 2020.
Prof Eva Eibl, a graduate of LMU Geophysics, has been awarded the EGU Seismology Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award 2021. Congratulations.
The senate of LMU, in its recent session, decided to extend the application deadline for the international master's programme in Geophysics to 20 August 2020.
Alice Gabriel wins Award of the Seismological Society of America
We are now accepting applications for winter term 2020/2021 in our International Master's Programme in Geophysics
Congratulations to Dr Stuart Clark who is the recipient of around Aus$440,000 of funding which will be used to build new software aimed at improving exploration both onshore and offshore Australia. The software will be known as Kinematica, a rapid resource exploration product. The ARC said it hoped the software could become "highly commercialised" and "transfer knowledge from European industry and universities to Australia." Under the industry collaboration, Dr Clark will work with two oil and gas companies, South Australia's Santos and Norway's Lundin, as well as the University of Sydney and LMU Munich to develop and create the software which will then be applied across frontier basins, including the Canning Basin.
Which courses will be offered in which form?
Cancellation of all teaching that requires presence of students.
Das Bayerische Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst hat am 10. März 2020 die sofortige Einstellung des Lehrbetriebs in Präsenzform an den bayerischen Universitäten wegen der Ausbreitung des Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 angeordnet.
Combining earthquake and tsunami computer models of the 2018 tsunami in Palu, researchers identified underlying causes of the deadly tsunami and uncover critical role of direct earthquake motions.
Ten early-career researchers representing a wide range of disciplines have received Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) with LMU as host institution. Each of these grants is worth approximately 1.5 million euros. Submissions are evaluated solely on the basis of the applicant’s previous scientific record and the quality of the proposed project. Moreover, LMU offers the option of appointment to a Tenure-Track Professorship to successful grantees, which can be converted into a permanent faculty position, subject to a positive assessment of performance.
A new paper in Nature Communications by Bono (Univ Liverpool), Tarduno (Univ Rochester) and Bunge (LMU Muenchen) sheds light on the motion of Hotspots indicating that Hotspot motion caused the Hawaiian-EmperorBend and that LLSVPs are not fixed
Professor Meng Jun will visit the magnetism group of the Geophysics Section for the month of July.
Siavash Ghelichkhan successfully defended his PhD Thesis on July 5th.