Jacob T. Fokkema#
Membership Number: | 2243 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2004 |
Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 Special professor of applied geophysics at the Free University of Amsterdam
- 1995 Change to Faculty of Applied Physics at Delft University
- 1993–1997 Visiting professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
- 1993 Full professor of applied geophysics in the Applied Earth Science Department, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
- 1987–1988 Visiting professor at the Institute of Geosciences and Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
- 1982 Department of Applied Earth Sciences at Delft University
- 1980–1981 Postdoctoral research fellow at the integrated systems laboratory at Stanford University, California
- 1979–1980 Laboratory of network theory in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Delft University
- 1979 Ph.D. in technical sciences from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Inversion of acoustic and electromagnetic geophysical measurements
- Measurements in time-lapse mode capturing the dynamic behavior of the earth’s subsurface
Honours and Awards
- 2006 Best Paper in Geophysics Award (shared with Kees Wapenaar)