Visiting Researchers
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Institute |
Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich |
Title |
Professor | |
Country |
Switzerland | |
Period of Stay |
2018/03/02 - 2018/03/31 | |
Research Theme |
Detecting lateral variations of upper mantle electrical conductivity using magnetic and electric data from Japanese geomagnetic observations | |
Host Researcher |
Hisashi UTADA |
I am currently Professor in the Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich,
where I lead electromagnetic (EM) induction group. I educated in Russia (Moscow
State University) and completed my PhD in 1987 in Institute of Terrestrial
Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation (IZMIRAN). Since then I have served a variety of roles in
IZMIRAN, Copenhagen University, and ETH. My research mainly focuses on developing
approaches and tools to simulate, analyze and invert multi-scale, multi-source,
multi-dimensional and multi-level electromagnetic (EM) data, with special
emphasis on magnetotelluric (MT) and global EM induction data. This, in
particular, led me to work with the magnetic field data from a number of low-Earth-orbit
satellite missions, most notably from the European Space Agency three-satellite
mission Swarm (2013 – present), the
Swiss contribution of which I lead. My most recent research include large-scale
MT study of Hangai Mountains in Western Mongolia, probing the lithosphere and
upper mantle with the satellite-detected tidal magnetic signals, and 3-D
modelling of EM field evolution during abnormal geomagnetic disturbances, in
context of Space Weather hazards.
My
visit to ERI, to collaborate with Professor Hisashi Utada, is related to my
research activity in the field of deep EM induction studies of the Earth using
ground-based (observatory) EM data. I would be delighted to get you interested
in the researches I am conducting.