Geophysical Imaging and Monitoring
Andrea Balza Morales successfully finished her PhD
Posted on 2025/12/18
Andrea Balza Morales has successfully defended her PhD thesis on December 18, 2025, as the first doctoral student of the Geophysical Imaging and Monitoring group!
Andrea has submitted a thesis titled “Preserving geological realism: Integrating implicit geomodeling in deterministic geophysical inversions”, which she has worked on in the frame of the EU innovative training network EASYGO. She has developed a structure-based (joint) inversion framework, which can invert various geophysical data sets honoring geological realism by integration of the implicit geomodeling engine GemPy with the geophysical toolbox pyGIMLi.
The main part of her work was recently published in the Geophysical Journal International:
We thank the other supervisors and committee members Prof. Hansruedi Maurer and Dr. Alexis Shakas from ETH Zurich and Prof. Florian Wellmann and Prof. Florian Amann from RWTH Aachen.
We congratulate Andrea and wish her nothing but the best for her personal and certainly bright professional future!
Impressions from the PhD defense
