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Position

Professor of Seismology

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Departmental responsibilities

Teaching: Year 2 Global Geophysics, Year 2/3 Independent Mapping Project, Year 4 Research Methods, Year 4 Seismology. Tutorials (years 1-4).
Admin: Departmental Director of Development; Unix system support and administration.

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Research Interests

I am interested in geological problems, mainly those that lead to an improved understanding of the physical processes that underlie planetary structure and evolution. Because these are diverse, the processes need to be investigated using a variety methods. They include field studies, computational modelling, and data analysis.

Current and past research areas are the structure of the inner core, outer core chemistry, the fate of subduction relicts in the lower mantle, the structure of the upper mantle, the structure and temporal development of hot spots, the architecture of cratonic roots and their relation to diamond occurrences, sound propagation and volcanism detection in the oceans, and the details of layering in the Moon.

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Publications

Link to Prof George Helffrich on the University's on-line database of research outputs (opens in a new window)

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Further information

Prof George Helffrich is seismologist, and a member of the Deep Earth Research Group at Bristol