Prof. Dr. Johan Robertsson

Prof. Dr.  Johan Robertsson

Prof. Dr. Johan Robertsson

Full Professor at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Head of Dep. of Earth and Planetary Sciences

ETH Zürich

Institut für Geophysik

NO H 51.2

Sonneggstrasse 5

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

Research area

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.

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

Since Membership
2012 Member of the Swiss Seismological Service steering committee
2009 Member of the EAGE research committee
2001 Assistant and Associate Editor of Geophysics

Honours

Year Distinction
2020 The EAGE Guido Bonarelli Award
2020 SEG Honorary Lecturer (Europe)
2018 The EAGE Conrad Schlumberger award
2017 ERC Advanced Grant - MATRIX
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

Autumn Semester 2024

Number Unit
651-1692-00L Seminar in Applied and Environmental Geophysics
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