Palestrantes
- Naser Meqbel
Naser Meqbel received his M.Sc. in Geophysics from the University of Cologne, Germany, and his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin, in collaboration with the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). His research focuses on the development and application of two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) modeling and inversion techniques for electrical and electromagnetic (EM) data.
Dr. Meqbel is a co-developer, together with Prof. Gary Egbert, of the ModEM code—one of the most widely used tools for 3D EM inversion in geophysical research. In addition to his academic contributions, he has served as a consultant on numerous geothermal and mineral exploration projects worldwide, specializing in advanced 3D EM methodologies.
He is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of 3D Consulting-Geo GmbH (Germany) and 3D Consulting-Geo BR Ltd. (Brazil), companies that provide global geophysical consulting and exploration services.
Frederik J Simons is a Professor of Geophysics, the Associate Chair of the Department of Geosciences, and an Associated Faculty Member with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. Previously, he was a Lecturer at University College London, a Princeton Council of Science & Technology Beck Fellow, and a Department of Geosciences Hess Post-doctoral Fellow. He has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, University College London, KU Leuven, and the universities of Brussels, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, and IPG Paris. Simons is interested in the seismic, mechanical, thermal, and magnetic properties of the Earth’s lithosphere and of the terrestrial planets and moons. He designs theoretical and computational inverse methods, tomographic, and statistical techniques to analyze complex, large, and heterogeneous geophysical data sets for seismology, space-based, and terrestrial geodesy. He has furthered the design of mid-column floating hydrophones to open up the sparsely instrumented oceanic domains for global tomography and environmental sensing, and of deep-ocean instrumentation to conduct long-term seafloor geodesy. He received the Vladimir Keilis-Borok Medal for Mathematical Geophysics from the IUGG, served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Seismological Society of America and the IRIS Consortium, received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the quadrennial Charles Lagrange Prize from the Royal Belgian Academy. Simons received an M.Sc. in geology from KU Leuven, Belgium and a Ph.D. in geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.