Karin Sigloch - Curriculum Vitae#


Education and Degrees
  • 2013 Habilitation (HDR) in Geophysics, University of Munich (LMU), Germany
  • 2008 PhD in Geophysics, Dept. of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, Thesis title: ‘Finite-frequency body-wave tomography’. Advisor: Guust Nolet
  • 2004 MA in Geosciences, Dept. of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
  • 2002 MEng (Dipl.-Ing. and ingénieur diplômé) in Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and ENSIEG at Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France

Employment history
  • 2021 - present Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) – Directeur de Recherche, and Université Côte d’Azur – Chaire d’Excellence.
  • 2019 - 2021 University of Oxford – Professor of Geophysics
  • 2013 - 2019 University of Oxford – Associate Professor of Geophysics
  • 2008 - 2013 University of Munich (LMU) – Assistant Professor of Seismology
  • 2002 - 2008 Princeton University – Research and Teaching Assistant
  • 2006 Schlumberger-Doll Research – Summer Research Associate, Ridgefield, CT.
  • 2001 - 2002 Bell Laboratories – Research Student/Research Consultant (16 months), Murray Hill, NJ, U.S.A.

Fellowships, Awards
  • 2023 PEPR (Programmes et Equipements Prioritaires de Recherche ) "Origins", 45M euros award, PI of Axis 3 (Geophysique)
  • 2021 Chaire d’Excellence, Université Côte d’Azur
  • 2021 Our research on autonomous seismo-acoustic and multidisciplinary floats gains the status of UN Ocean Decade Project #131
  • 2018 Exeter College Oxford – Elected deputy director of the college
  • 2018 Université de la Côte d’Azur, Sophia-Antipolis – Visiting Professor (three months).
  • 2017 Young Academy of Europe – elected fellow
  • 2015 Philip Leverhulme Prize (£100,000)
  • 2015 European Research Council, ERC Starting Grant project ‘DEEP TIME’.
  • 2013 Marie Curie Career Integration Grant
  • 2013 Nature Geoscience voted Sigloch et al. 2008 one of the ‘10 Favourite Papers’ of the journal’s first 5 years.
  • 2013 Award for Excellence in Teaching based on best student feedback, for the course Seismology/Inverse Problems, University of Munich (LMU)
  • 2012 Received the largest individual grant of the German Science Foundation (DFG) in the category ‘Geophysics and Geodesy’ in 2012, for proposal RHUM-RUM (https://www.rhum-rum.net)
  • 2006 Dodds Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University
  • 2005 Arnold Guyot Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Princeton University
  • 2001 Jürgen Ulderup Stipendium. Stipend for a research project at Bell Labs in the US
  • 1996 Fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (Germany’s most competitive government stipend for university students, based on academic merit and leadership promise)

Students, postdocs

2009 - present Principal supervisor of 7 PhD students (7 completed); 12 postdoctoral associates; 7 MSc theses. Co-advisor of 6 PhD students.

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