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Current DEEPSCAPE researchers and affiliated students

Faculty

• Paula Koelemeijer: Global seismologist and deep Earth explorer

Postdoctoral researchers

• Auggie Marigner: Inner core structure using Bayesian AI (Schmidt AI in Science Fellow since 2025)

PhD students

• Jasmina Rai: Mid mantle structure using Backus-Gilbert inferences (Oxford PhD since 2025, primary supervisor)
• Jamie Chow: Joint geophysical inversions for geothermal energy (Oxford PhD since 2024, co-supervisor)
• Manuel Mojica-Boada: Fluids in subduction zones and links to seismicity (Oxford PhD since 2024, primary supervisor)
• I Made Kris Ad Astra: Physical parameters and triggering of earthquakes (Oxford PhD since 2023, co-supervisor)
• Sixtine Dromigny: Seismic noise interferometry for detecting fluids in geothermal settings (Oxford PhD since 2023, primary supervisor)
• Lara Boudinot: Effect of anthropogenic seismic noise on large mammals (Oxford PhD since 2023, co-supervisor)
• Fatima Ramadan: Large-scale physics-based ground motions simulations with machine learning (Oxford PhD since 2022, co-supervisor)
• Sam Scivier: Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment using ML (Oxford PhD since 2022, co-supervisor)
• Adrian Mag: Inferring multi-scale CMB topography (Oxford PhD since 2022, primary supervisor)
• Justin Leung: Temperature and composition of the lower mantle (Oxford PhD since 2022, co-supervisor)

MSc project students

• Evie Sherwood: Body-wave imaging of the Hawaiian plume using SOLA (Oxford 4th year project student 2025-2026, co-supervisor)
• Matthew McKinnon-Bell: Inferences of lunar structure using SOLA (Oxford 4th year project student 2025-2026, co-supervisor)
• Ningjing Wang: Imaging of geothermal reservoir using SOLA (Oxford 4th year project student 2025-2026, co-supervisor)

External students

• Anna Schneider: Assessing absolute plate motion in geodynamic simulations using normal modes (LMU Munich PhD since 2023, co-supervisor)
DEEPSCAPE group members and co-supervised students, October 2024. Missing from the picture are Sixtine Dromigny and Viktoria Trautner. DEEPSCAPE group members, November 2022

Former members and supervised students

Former postdoctoral researchers

• Joseph Asplet: Seismic background noise and seismicity in London (PDRA 2025-2026)
• Franck Latallerie: Finite-frequency surface-wave tomography of the Pacific upper mantle (PDRA 2023-2025)

Former PhD students

• Emile Serra: Multi-parameter seismic structure of the mantle using SOLA (EOST Strasbourg PhD 2023 - 2026, co-supervisor)
• Viktoria Trautner: Iron spin transition in ferropericlase (Oxford PhD 2021 - 2025, co-supervisor)
• Federica Restelli: Global Backus-Gilbert seismic tomography (RHUL PhD 2019 - 2023, primary supervisor)
• Harriet Godwin: Multi-scale studies of lower mantle structure (Oxford PhD 2015 - 2020, co-supervisor)

Former MSc project and research project students

• Lenka Hozzova: Characterising detectability of earthquakes across London (Oxford 4th year project student 2024-2025, primary supervisor)
• Miguel Pinto-Ward: Deployment of seismic stations in London (Oxford research assistant 2022 - 2024)
• Alice Turner: Spin transition effect in global tomography (UCL summer project 2019, primary supervisor)
• Ana Pagu: Tomographic proxies for post-perovskite (Oxford Master's 2017 - 2018, primary supervisor)
• Judit Gonzalez Santana: Body wave studies of CMB topography (Oxford Master's 2016 - 2017, primary supervisor)
• William Rees: Seismic signals of elephant behaviour and communication (Oxford Master's 2016 - 2017, co-supervisor)

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