Dr. Jeroen Tromp

Biography

Jeroen Tromp joined the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University in July 2008 as the Blair Professor of Geology and Professor of Applied Computational Mathematics. He previously held the position of Director at the Seismological Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and was a faculty member in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Harvard University from 1992 to 2000. He earned his Ph.D. in Geophysics in 1992 and his M.S. in 1990 from Princeton University, alongside a B.Sc. in Geophysics from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1988. Tromp's primary research interests lie in Theoretical & Computational Seismology, particularly focusing on surface waves, free oscillations, body waves, seismic tomography, and numerical simulations of 3-D wave propagation, as well as seismic hazard assessment. He collaborated with late Princeton Geosciences faculty member Tony Dahlen to publish the book 'Theoretical Global Seismology.'

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