Heiner Igel

Heiner Igel is a distinguished geophysicist who studied geophysics in Karlsruhe and Edinburgh. He earned his doctoral degree in 1993 from the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris, where he developed parallel forward and inverse modeling tools for wave propagation problems. Following this, he worked at the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics in Cambridge, UK, focusing on wave simulation techniques for both regional and global seismic wave propagation. In 1999, he became a Professor of Seismology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. His current research interests include full-waveform inversion, high-performance computing, and rotational ground motions. Igel is also a member of the German National Academy of Sciences.