Mike Gurnis
Michael C. Gurnis is the John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics; Clarence R. Allen Leadership Chair, Seismological Laboratory; Director, Seismological Laboratory; and Director, Schmidt Academy for Software Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. Since 2009, Gurnis has served as director of the Caltech Seismological Laboratory, a leader in the study of earthquakes and geophysics for more than 100 years.
Gurnis served as director of the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics, an NSF-funded institute operated by Caltech which supports and promotes Earth science by developing and maintaining open-source software for computational geophysics and related fields.
Gurnis was awarded the 2013 Agustus Love Medal for fundamental contributions to geodynamics from the European Geosciences Union.
Other reading
- McFarling, Usha Lee. How Push Comes to Shove. Los Angeles Times. June 17, 2002. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-17-sci-plume17-story.html