Andrew Jackson

Professor of Geophysics since January 2006 at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He currently heads the Earth and Planetary Magnetism group within the Institute for Geophysics. His PhD was in Cambridge, completed in collaboration with the British Geological Survey, Edinburgh. Jackson's first postdoctoral position was at Harvard University, from where, after two years, he returned to take up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at Oxford University. In 1994 Jackson moved to University of Leeds, where he became Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Mathematical Geophysics. Jackson's interests are in the application of mathematical methods to problems in the geosciences. Although his work has been primarily focussed in geomagnetism (the study of the generation and evolution of the Earth's magnetic field), he has interests ranging from the use of gravity gradiometry in the search for minerals and hydrocarbons to methodologies for the solution of remote sensing problems ("inverse problems"). Work on the magnetic field encompasses the use of satellites, historical data and numerical simulations of magnetohydrodynamics. Jackson is involved with planning of the upcoming Swarm magnetic mission to measure the Earth's magnetic field (from 2010 onwards). Awards he has received include AGU's Gilbert medal (2004), the EGU's Petrus Peregrinus medal (2007), and the Price medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2007). He was elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2007.

Email: ajackson@ethz.ch