Andrew Jackson
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Andrew Jackson has been Professor of Geophysics since January 2006. He currently heads the Earth and Planetary Magnetism group within the Institute for Geophysics. Born in Bridlington, England, Andy Jackson gained his Batchelor's degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, majoring in Physics. He remained at Cambridge for his PhD, completed in collaboration with the British Geological Survey, Edinburgh. Jackson's first postdoctoral position was at Harvard University, from where, after two years, he returned to take up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at Oxford University. Jackson subsequently moved to University of Leeds, where he became Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Mathematical Geophysics.
Research Interest
Application of mathematical methods to problems in the geosciences.
