Tarje Nissen-Meyer

Oberassistent/Lecturer

Computational seismology

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ETH Zurich
Institute of Geophysics
Seismology and Geodynamics
Sonneggstrasse 5
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland

Phone: ++41 (0) 44 633 3154
Fax: ++41 (0) 44 633 1065
Email: tarjen {AT} ethz.ch

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My research interests

I am interested in quantitatively describing and understanding physical Earth processes via realistic seismic wave propagation at scales from earthquake rupture to the deep Earth.

Any progress on seismic hazard assessment, earthquake rupture processes, nuclear test ban monitoring, tsunami modeling, predicting volcano eruptions, carbon sequestration, oil exploration, Earth's energy budget, past plate motions, and geomagnetism necessitates reasonable models of ambient medium properties in space and time. Seismic waves emanating from earthquakes or active explosions lend themselves very well to illuminating the earth's interior due to their weak attenuation over large distances and modern instruments capable of detecting small ground motions at a large range of frequencies. My work is underpinned by numerical methods for realistic simulations of seismic-wave propagation which is paramount to any imaging procedure, and thus, together with appropriate inversion techniques, the crux of obtaining realistic models of the subsurface.

Please refer to our research group page for a summary of my ongoing research projects related to:

The nature of seismic sources
Wave propagation in complex media
Seismic imaging of the deep Earth
Numerical wave propagation
Inverse problems

Other past, current and future research topics include 3-D elastic wave propagation through subduction zones, supervirtual interferometry, helioseismology, near-field characterization, and lattice-based highly efficient methods of seismic wave propagation.

If you are interested in collaborating, contributing, or potential Ph.D./M.Sc./postdoc projects at ETH Zurich, please contact me.