Chris Udell

MSc, MBA

Chris Udell is a highly experienced, knowledgeable NDT professional. Over the course of more than 25 years, Chris has worked across industries and organisations in fields of business development, product management, and engineering with a focus on improving the performance, reliability and automation of NDT systems. He has a Masters degree in Physics from the University of Manchester and an MBA from Royal Holloway University in London. He has co-authored and presented several scientific articles and has patents for turbine component inspections. Chris' role at Mondaic is be to find, develop, and sustain business prospects in order to produce long-term value for the organisation and clients.

Christian Boehm

Ph.D.

Christian Boehm holds a PhD in Mathematics that he obtained from the International Graduate School of Science and Engineering at TU Munich in 2015. He has a Master’s degree in Mathematics and an Honours Degree in Technology Management from LMU Munich and TU Munich. Christian is a core developer of Salvus and an expert in nonlinear optimization and ultrasound tomography. He previously worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zurich, and has also gained experience as a financial engineer in investment banking.

David Sollberger

Ph.D.

David obtained a PhD in Geophysics from ETH Zürich in 2018 for research revolving around the development of algorithms for the processing of novel seismic observables, such as spatial wavefield gradients and rotational ground-motion. His doctoral thesis was awarded with the ETH medal. David's research interests include signal processing, tomographic imaging, and optimization problems in general. Before joining Mondaic, David worked as a senior researcher at ETH Zürich, where he was involved in several projects related to seismic imaging, signal processing, and planetary seismology. He is a member of the science team for the NASA Insight mission to Mars.

Katinka Tuinstra

MSc

Katinka is currently undertaking a PhD at ETH Zürich, focusing on the application of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) in borehole environments and geothermal applications. Her work mainly focuses on source characterization of induced seismicity. Katinka previously studied Applied Geophysics. Her thesis, conducted at ETH Zürich, focused on exploring seismic simulations for scenario earthquakes in Istanbul, Turkey.

Krystyna Smolinski

MSci Cantab

Krystyna is currently undertaking a PhD at ETH Zürich, focusing on the application of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) in urban environments. Her work involves exploring the potential to image the shallow subsurface using anthropogenic noise, particularly in non-ideal conditions. Krystyna previously studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, specialising in Earth Sciences, including a Master’s thesis on LLSVP travel time anomalies.

Lars Gebraad

Ph.D.

Lars Gebraad completed his PhD in Bayesian seismology at ETH Zurich in 2023. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Earth Sciences from TU Delft and a joint Master’s degree in Applied Geophysics from RWTH Aachen, TU Delft, and ETH Zurich. His interests naturally gravitated toward inversion and inference algorithms applied to the physical sciences and cutting-edge computational methods. In his doctoral studies, he investigated the application of advanced Monte Carlo techniques to Full-Waveform Inversion and other inverse problems across seismology, machine learning and metamaterial research, developing the computational tools required into various open-source packages.

Lion Krischer

Ph.D.

Lion Krischer earned a doctoral degree from the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich in 2017 working on scaling full waveform inversions to large data volumes. His works sits at the crossroads where seismology meets computational science, Big Data engineering, and machine learning. A major focus of his has always been the development and maintenance of production-grade scientific software using agile techniques. During the past 8 years he has been a core developer of a number of open-source packages pivoting around data orchestration, signal processing, cloud computing, and waveform simulations with a world-wide user base.

Michael Afanasiev

Ph.D.

Michael Afanasiev obtained his PhD in Geophysics from ETH Zurich in May 2017 for work related to multi-scale full waveform inversion. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Computational Physics and a Master’s degree in Geophysics from McMaster University and Western University respectively, both located in Canada. He is a core developer of Salvus, and has won several awards for his work on full-waveform inversion from the CSEG, EAGE, and AGU societies.

Nienke Brinkman

Ph.D.

Nienke acquired her PhD in geophysics at ETH Zürich in 2022 focusing on characterizing seismic sources and investigating the shallow Martian subsurface properties, as part of the NASA’s InSight mission. Nienke is currently also a professional trail and road runner, competing at international events.

Patrick Marty

MSc

Patrick currently pursues a PhD at ETH Zürich and his research involves adapting modeling methods developed in the field of geophysics to improve the imaging quality of medical ultrasound. During his Bacholor studies at Queen’s University in Canada, Patrick acquired considerable experience in the areas of tunnel engineering and exploration geophysics. Patrick subsequently pursued a Master’s in Applied Geophysics, his thesis project was completed at ETH Zürich and involved exploring the use of full-waveform inversion for imaging the human brain using ultrasound.

Simon Schmid

Ph.D.

Simon is currently undertaking a PhD at TU Munich in the field of non-destructive testing. His topic is automation in non-destructive testing using ultrasound wavefield simulations and deep learning. Simon studied mechanical engineering at TU Munich, including a Master’s thesis about online quality control in the laser powder bed fusion 3D printing process.