Ann Marie Hirt
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Ann Marie Hirt-Tasillo was awarded the title of Professor (Titularprofessor) at ETH Zurich in 2009. Ann M. Hirt-Tasillo teaches in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and since 2003 heads the Laboratory for Natural Magnetism (LNM). As a member of the Group Earth and Planetary Magnetism in the Institute of Geophysics she leads several multi-disciplinary research projects. In 2008 she was named Professor at the ETH Zurich. She was born in 1955 in Pittsburgh, USA, and received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees, both in Geology, from Waynesburg College, USA, and the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1977 and 1980, respectively. In 1986 she completed her PhD studies in the area of magnetic anisotropy and paleomagnetism at the Institute for Geophysics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where she subsequently assumed a research position. In 1996 she received her habilitation (Venia Legendi) in the field Geophysics at ETH Zurich.
Research Interest
Application of magnetic properties; Magnetic anisotropy
