Prof. Niklas Linde

Niklas Linde received his MSc (2002) in environmental engineering and his PhD (2005) in geophysics from Uppsala University in Sweden. During his PhD studies, he spent one year as a guest at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He then spent one year at CNRS-CEREGE in France before he joined the Institute of Geophysics at ETHZ as a postdoctoral researcher in late 2006. After close to two years at ETH, he moved to Lausanne to become Assistant Professor in Applied Geophysics.

His research focuses mainly on joint inversion of geophysical and hydrological data for environmentally and hydrologically relevant applications. His main areas of geophysical expertise are electrical and electromagnetic geophysics, electrical properties, geophysical inverse theory, and hydrogeophysics. His teaching activities are mainly focused on electromagnetics and potential field methods.

Niklas is a co-PI of ENSEMBLE (http://www.ensemble-modeling.org/) that aims at integrating the latest advances in quantitative geology, hydrology, numerical, and stochastic modeling in order to increase our ability to understand and predict complex hydrological systems.
 

• Professional Experience

2003-present
Author of some 40 peer-reviewed articles in international journals and edited books

2008-present
Assistant Professor in Environmental Geophysics, Institute of Geophysics, Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

2006-2008
Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2005-2006
Postdoctoral fellow, CNRS-CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France

2003-2004
Guest at the Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

2001-2005
Research/Teaching Assistant, Uppsala University

• Education

2005
PhD, Solid Earth Geophysics, Uppsala University

2003
Licentiate (in-between MSc and PhD), Solid Earth Geophysics, Uppsala University

2002
MSc, Environmental and Aquatic Engineering, Uppsala University

Awards and Fellowships

2010
Recipient of the 2010 Geonics/EEGS Early Career Award (Environmental and Engineering Geophysics) for significant and ongoing contributions to the discipline of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics

• Major Areas of Work and Interest

• Hydrogeophysics
• Electrical and Electromagnetic methods
• Electrical properties
• Inverse theory
• Hydrological modeling