About Andreas Fichtner

Andreas is Full Professor for Seismology and Wave Physics at ETH Zurich. In 2010, he received his PhD from the University of Munich for his work on Full Seismic Waveform Inversion for Structural and Source Parameters. To image the deep interior of the Earth, his team develops novel techniques for numerical wave propagation and uncertainty quantification. They deploy fibre-optic cables of several kilometres length in densely populated cities, and on volcanoes and glaciers. Using laser interferometry, these cables become seismic sensors that provide information about Earth structure and seismicity with unprecedented resolution. In addition to that, Andreas works on high-performance computing, medical ultrasound imaging, effective media and metamaterial design, and non-destructive testing. He is also a co-founder of the ETH Spin-Off Mondaic that provides solutions for full-waveform modelling and inversion. For his work, he received the 2011 Keiiti Aki Award from the American Geophysical Union, the 2015 Early Career Scientist Award from the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, and the 2018 Hoffmann Prize from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.