NWO Vici grant for Arwen Deuss
Imaging the deep Earth
Five excellent scientists from Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 from NWO. The funding will enable the laureates to do research for the next five years and to build up their own research group. One of the researchers is seismologist , who already received an ERC grant of 2 million euro's prior to this.
Large earthquakes cause the Earth to sound like a bell. As a seismologist Deuss uses these vibrations to make images of the deep structure of the Earth. Using this information she investigates how deep tectonic movements bring water into the Earth and whether molten material is found at the core-mantle boundary. For this unique view Deuss already .
Faculty of Geosciences: a sustainable Earth for future generations