Dr. Sergey Fomel
Technical Advisor
Dr. Fomel is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Geological Sciences and also works in the Bureau of Economic Geology. He received a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University in 2001 and worked previously at the Russian Institute of Geophysics, Schlumberger Geco-Prakla, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Dr. Fomel received the J. Clarence Karcher Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) in 2001 and the Best Poster Presentation Award from SEG in 2007. He also shared the Honorable Mention Award from SEG with Paul Sava in 2004 for their Geophysics paper “Angle-domain common-image gathers by wavefield continuation methods” and the Lorand Eotvos Award from the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) with Evgeny Landa and Tijmen-Jan Moser in 2007 for their Geophysical Prospecting paper “Path-integral seismic imaging.”
Dr. Fomel serves as an Associate Editor of Geophysics and devotes part of his time to developing “Madagascar”, an open-source software package for geophysical data analysis.