Karin Sigloch#
| Membership Number: | 7093 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karin-Sigloch |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9876-4628 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 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 (3 months), Ridgefield, CT.
- 2001 - 2002 Bell Laboratories – Research Student/Research Consultant (16 months), Murray Hill, NJ, U.S.A.
Fields of Scholarship
- Seismic wave propagation and tomography
- Uncertainty estimation in geophysical inverse problems
- Global-scale tectonics and geodynamics
- Geophysics in the oceans
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Chaire d’Excellence, Université Côte d’Azur
- 2017 Young Academy of Europe – elected fellow
- 2015 Philip Leverhulme Prize (£100,000)
- 2015 European Research Council, ERC Starting Grant
- 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
