Johan Robertsson

Prof. Dr. Johan Robertsson

Position

Head of Dep. of Earth Sciences

Relation

Full Professor

Contact Data

Tel.: +41 44 632 43 13
Fax: +41 44 633 10 65
Tel. (Sec.): +41 44 633 26 06

ORCID: 0000-0002-3292-385X

Other numbers

Tel: +41 44 632 56 27

Address

ETH Zürich
Johan Robertsson
Institut für Geophysik
NO  H 51.2
Sonneggstrasse 5
8092 Zürich
Switzerland

Organisations Full Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences
https://www.erdw.ethz.ch/
Research Field

Johan Robertsson’s main research interest is the physics of wave propagation in complex media, the modelling and inversion of seismic data, seismic data acquisition and processing for exploration and environmental geophysics applications.

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Johan O. A. Robertsson has been a Professor of Applied Geophysics and Head of the Exploration and Environmental Geophysics (EEG) Group at the Institute of Geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences since 2012.

He was born in Lund, Sweden, in 1967.

He completed an MSc in engineering physics at Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1991, and continued his studies at Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, where he was awarded a PhD in Geophysics in 1994.

He then moved to ETH Zurich to take up a position as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Geophysics from 1995 to 1996.

In 1996 he joined Schlumberger where he spent 15 years in various R&D and management positions, including Research Director of Geophysics and Scientific Advisor at Schlumberger Gould Research, Cambridge. Part of his research led to Schlumberger’s largest R&D project ever, fundamentally changing the way marine seismic wavefields are sampled.

 

Membership
From: 2012
Until: -
Member of the Swiss Seismological Service steering committee
From: 2009
Until: -
Member of the EAGE research committee
From: 2001
Until: -
Assistant and Associate Editor of Geophysics
Honours
1. January 2017
ERC Advanced Grant - MATRIX
8. October 2015
The Eni "New frontiers in hydrocarbons - upstream" award
2009
Awarded best paper prize at WesternGeco’s International Geophysical Conference in Houston
2008
Awarded best paper prize at WesternGeco’s International Geophysical Conference in Cairo
2004
Awarded best paper prize at WesternGeco’s International Geophysical Conference in n Brighton
1995
Leroy Caleb Gibbon Award for Best Written Master's or Doctoral Thesis in Geology and Geophysics at Rice University
1993
Awarded Nettie S. Autrey Fellowship, Rice University
1993
Best student presentation award at the SEG in Washington, DC
1991
Thalin Fellowship of the Uppsala University
1990
Noreus Fellowship of the Uppsala University
Additional Information

Ninety patents have been applied for, published and/or granted

Course Catalogue
651-4087-00L Case Studies in Exploration and Environmental Geophysics
651-4094-00L Numerical Modelling for Applied Geophysics
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