Hansruedi Maurer
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Hansruedi Maurer teaches in the Department of Earth Sciences and leads several multidisciplinary research programmes in the Applied and Environmental Geophysics Group of the Institute of Geophysics. He was awarded the title of Professor in 2007. He was born in 1961 in Zurich. After receiving his Diploma in geophysics he completed a doctoral project in 1993 on the microseismicity and seismotectonics of the western Swiss Alps. Both degrees were conferred by ETH. Subsequently, he joined the newly formed group of Applied and Environmental Geophysics. Based on his contributions to geophysical tomography he was awarded the Habilitation degree in 2002. In 1996 and 2005 he was a visiting scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, respectively.
Research Interest
Tomographic inversions of diverse geophysical data; Statistical experimental design
