Malcolm Sambridge Sub22 Conference

Malcolm Sambridge

Malcolm Sambridge is a Professor in the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University. Since his Ph.D. at ANU in 1988 he has held post-doctoral positions at Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, in the Carnegie institution of Washington, D.C, USA, and at the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Univ. of Cambridge, UK, before returning to ANU in 1992. His research contributions have been in geophysical inverse problems across the Earth Sciences and in particular seismology. His research interests lie in the development and application of techniques for geophysical inference; seismic wave propagation; imaging of the internal structure of Earth; robust inference from Earth science data; computational geophysics and numerical algorithms. In addition to research he has been involved in various ventures building research infrastructure and science outreach. In particular he has been part of a team building the Australian Seismometer is Schools network, a national outreach program installing instruments measuring the ground shaking of distant earthquakes in 50 high schools across Australia. He was awarded the Price medal of the Royal astronomical Society in 2009; elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2010 and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2015 and received the AGU Gutenberg Lecture in 2020 and the EGU Gutenberg Medal in 2021