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About the Authors
Frederik J. Simons
fjsimons@alum.mit.edu
Department of Geosciences
Guyot Hall
Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
Frederik J. Simons is a geophysicist
at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ), interested in the seismic, mechanical, thermal, and magnetic properties of Earth and the terrestrial planets. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in geology from KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), and a PhD in seismology from MIT
(Cambridge, MA). He enjoys analyzing complex, large, and het- erogeneous geophysical datasets and designs mathematical and computational inverse methods, and statistical techniques to do so. No amount of sophistication can cure a fundamental data limitation; hence his involvement in developing floating hydrophones to open up the sparsely instrumented oceanic domains for global seismic tomography.
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