Most scientists at the SED have an MSc or PhD in geophysics. If you, too, would like to become a seismologist, the SED recommends that you gain an MSc in Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich, majoring in geophysics. Those students who want a more international profile can opt for ETH Zurich's Joint Master in Applied Geophysics, where the teaching is split three, equal ways between ETH Zurich, RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands).
After successfully completing your studies you can complete a PhD in seismology. The SED is usually supervising between 8 and 12 doctoral students at any one time. Find out here whether there are any current openings for PhD students at the SED.
In this video, seismologists talk about their studies (in their respective mother tongue) and explain what future students can look forward to. In addition, they provide insights into their day-to-day professional life.
Advancing real-times seismic risk mitigation: probabilistic earthquake early warning and physics based earthquake triggering models
Referent: Stefan Wiemer
Korreferenten: John Clinton, Maximilian Werner, Thomas Heaton, Richard Allen
Seismic investigation of moulin tremor and basal icequakes of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Referent: Edi Kissling
Korreferenten: Fabian Walter, Martin Funk, Stefan Wiemer, Sridhar Anandakrishnan
Pseudo-dynamic source inversion
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: John Clinton, Seok Goo, Luis Dalguer, Aldo Zollo
Multiscale seismicity analysis and forecasting: applications to the Western Pacific and Iceland
Referent: Stefan Wiemer
Korreferenten: Jeremy Zechar, Frederic Schoenberg, Kristin S. Vogfjörd
Next-generation probabilistic seismicity forecasting
Referent: Stefan Wiemer
Korreferenten: Jochen Wössner, Domenico Giardini, Edward Field
3D dynamic rupture modeling in geometrically complex fault systems: The 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Luis Dalguer, JeanPaul Ampuero, Gaetano Festa
Evaluating compatibility of ground motions resulting from dynamic rupture models with empirical GMPE and an attempt to develop physics-based synthetic GMPE
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Sinan Akkar, Carlo Cauzzi, Luis Dalguer
Regional dependence in earthquake early warning and real time seismology
Referent: Stefan Wiemer
Korreferenten: Georgia Cua, Domenico Giardini, Thomas Heaton
Array Processing for Seismic Surface Waves
Referent: Donat Fäh
Korreferenten: Domenico Giardini, Hans-Andrea Loeliger, Heiner Igel
Automatic reconstruction of fault networks from seismicity catalogs including location uncertainty
Referent: Didier Sornette
Korreferenten: Stephan Husen, Jochen Wössner, Guy Ouillon, David Marsan
Beyond earthquake sources: the effects of earth structure on ground shaking in the era of broad-band simulations
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Martin Mai, Klaus Holliger, Luis Dalguer, Raph Archuleta
Improved 3D crustal models and the influence of secondary phases on earthquake hypocenter determination: application to the western Alps
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Stephan Husen, Edi Kissling, Frederik Tilmann
New approaches towards understanding and forecasting induced seismicity
Referent: Stefan Wiemer
Korreferenten: Domenico Giardini, Serge Shapiro, Jochen Wössner
Magnitude scaling relations and attenuation in thick sediments: application to the induced seismicity beneath the city of Basel, Switzerland
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Nicolas Deichmann, Martin Mai, Frank Scherbaum
The use of surface waves for site characterization and seismic hazard analysis
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Donat Fäh, Pierre-Yves Bard
From crustal imaging to long-term seismic hazard assessment: new methodologies for generating 3D crustal models and synthetic earthquake catalogs
Referent: Stefan Wiemer
Korreferenten: Edi Kissling, Domenico Giardini, Sebastian Hainzl
b-values as stress-meters in the earth’s crust
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Stefan Wiemer, Jeanne Hardebeck
Physics-based classification, quantification, and simulation of ground motion for earthquake engineering applications
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Martin Mai, Luis Dalguer, Fabrice Cotton
Uncertainty assessment in statistical seismology: applications to subduction zone processes and time-dependent hazard and risk
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Stefan Wiemer, Edi Kissling, Danijel Schorlemmer, Warner Marzocchi
Large historical earthquakes in Switzerland. Multidisciplinary studies on damage fields and site-effects
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: David Gugerli, Donat Fäh, Massimiliano Stucchi
Site effects in the Rhône Valley analysed by ambient noise, weak motion records and numerical simulations
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Donat Fäh, Pierre-Yves Bard
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Correlating statistical properties of aftershock sequences to earthquake physics
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Stefan Wiemer, Egill Hauksson
Late quaternary mass movements in a perialpine Lake (Lake Lucerne, Switzerland): Sedimentary Processes, Natural Hazards and Paleoseismic Reconstructions
Referent: Flavio Anselmetti
Korreferenten: Judy McKenzie, Domenico Giardini, M. de Batist
Adaptation of the palaeoseismological approach to local tectonic regime: comparative study of the intraplate Basel Reinach fault, Switzerland, and the interplate North Anatolian fault, Turkey
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Mustapha Meghraoui, Adrian Pfiffner, Rolando Armijo
Earthquake-induced deformation structures in lake deposits - A late Pleistocene to Holocene paleoseismic record for Central Switzerland
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Arnfried Becker, Flavio Anselmetti, Michael Sturm, Jose-Pedro Calvo
Earthquake source parameters in the Alpine-Mediterranean region from surface wave analysis
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Jochen Braunmiller, Urs Kradolfer, Torsten Dahm
EARTHquake statistics and likelihood model testing in California
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Stefan Wiemer, David Jackson, Max Wyss
Uncertainties in earthquake scenarios
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Donat Fäh, Jochen Zschau, S.Tschudi
Earthquake clustering and time-dependent probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for California
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Stefan Wiemer, Lucile Jones
Seismotectonics and stress field variations in Switzerland
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Nicholas Deichmann, Keith Evans, Mary Lou Zoback
Development of microzhonation methods: application to Basle, Switzerland
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Donat Fäh, Frank Scherbaum, Peter Huggenberger
Ground motion scaling in Switzerland: implications for hazard assessment
Referent: Domenico Giardini
Korreferenten: Donat Fäh, Peter Suhadolc
Seismic vulnerability of existing buildings
Referent: Hugo Bachmann
Korreferenten: Marc Badoux, G.M. Caliv, Domenico Giardini