Prof. Dr. Johan Robertsson
Prof. Dr. Johan Robertsson
Full Professor at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Head of Dep. of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Research area
Johan Robertsson’s main research interest is the physics of wave propagation in complex media, the modelling and inversion of seismic data, seismic data acquisition and processing for exploration and environmental geophysics applications.
Johan O. A. Robertsson has been a Professor of Applied Geophysics and Head of the Exploration and Environmental Geophysics (EEG) Group at the Institute of Geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences since 2012.
He was born in Lund, Sweden, in 1967.
He completed an MSc in engineering physics at Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1991, and continued his studies at Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, where he was awarded a PhD in Geophysics in 1994.
He then moved to ETH Zurich to take up a position as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Geophysics from 1995 to 1996.
In 1996 he joined Schlumberger where he spent 15 years in various R&D and management positions, including Research Director of Geophysics and Scientific Advisor at Schlumberger Gould Research, Cambridge. Part of his research led to Schlumberger’s largest R&D project ever, fundamentally changing the way marine seismic wavefields are sampled.
Membership
| Since | Membership |
|---|---|
| 2012 | Member of the Swiss Seismological Service steering committee |
| 2009 | Member of the EAGE research committee |
| 2001 | Assistant and Associate Editor of Geophysics |
Honours
| Year | Distinction |
|---|---|
| 2020 | The EAGE Guido Bonarelli Award |
| 2020 | SEG Honorary Lecturer (Europe) |
| 2018 | The EAGE Conrad Schlumberger award |
| 2017 | ERC Advanced Grant - MATRIX |
| 2015 | The Eni "New frontiers in hydrocarbons - upstream" award |
| 2009 | Awarded best paper prize at WesternGeco s International Geophysical Conference in Houston |
| 2008 | Awarded best paper prize at WesternGeco s International Geophysical Conference in Cairo |
| 2004 | Awarded best paper prize at WesternGeco s International Geophysical Conference in n Brighton |
| 1995 | Leroy Caleb Gibbon Award for Best Written Master's or Doctoral Thesis in Geology and Geophysics at Rice University |
| 1993 | Awarded Nettie S. Autrey Fellowship, Rice University |
| 1993 | Best student presentation award at the SEG in Washington, DC |
| 1991 | Thalin Fellowship of the Uppsala University |
| 1990 | Noreus Fellowship of the Uppsala University |
Additional information
Ninety patents have been applied for, published and/or granted
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2025
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 651-4087-00L | Case Studies in Exploration and Environmental Geophysics |
| 651-4094-00L | Numerical Modelling for Applied Geophysics |