Frederik J. Simons
Professor of Geosciences · Natural Sciences Divisional Departments · Princeton University
Quick answer: Frederik J. Simons is Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University. Frederik J. Simons shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
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Research interests
I am a geologically inspired, geophysically educated, computationally motivated and mathematically minded geoscientist interested in the seismic, mechanical, thermal and magnetic properties of the Earth's lithosphere—and of the terrestrial planets and moons. I enjoy analyzing complex, large, and heterogeneous geophysical data sets, and design mathematical and computational inverse methods, and statistical techniques to do so. No amount of sophistication can cure a fundamental data limitation: I had a hand in developing floating hydrophones to open up the sparsely instrumented oceanic domains for global seismic tomography, and founded a consortium, EarthScope-Oceans, devoted to deploying them globally.
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What does Frederik J. Simons research?
I am a geologically inspired, geophysically educated, computationally motivated and mathematically minded geoscientist interested in the seismic, mechanical, thermal and magnetic properties of the Earth's lithosphere—and of the terrestrial planets and moons. I enjoy analyzing complex, large, and het
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