1. Early Stage Researcher
Philip Knaute
Early Stage Researcher
Host Institution: Schlumberger Cambridge Research (SCR)
Place of Origin: Germany / Munich
Appointment Time: 10 April 2010
Project: Waveform inversion and land near-surface characterization for exploration
seismology
Task Groups:
Cooperation:

2. Past “Diplom” (equiv. to Masters) in applied mathematics at TU Munich
Numerics
Mathematical Optimisation.
Thesis on the usage of Neural Networks for interpolation of a
blackbox function in arbitrary dimensions.
Some teaching experience as tutor for mathematics for physicists and
(computer)engineers.

3. Present
PhD Student at Schlumberger Cambridge Research and the University of Cambridge
Still working on getting all the basic seismology / physics theory right to be able to start working on my research topic

4. Future
I will work on including near surface effects in full waveform inversion algorithms in
exploration seismology. First I will try to develop the theory
and later, applying it to data.
I also will try to further improve algorithms for waveform inversion by trying to adapt
methods from mathematical optimisation to seismology.

5. Thank You