Frederik J. Simons

Frederik J. Simons is a Flemish Belgian geophysicist. He is a professor at Princeton University in the Department of Geosciences. From 2010 to 2013, Simons was the Dusenbury University Preceptor of Geological & Geophysical Sciences. From 2004 to 2006, he was a lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at University College London. Between 2002 and 2004 he was a Harry H. Hess Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geosciences and a Beck Fellow with the Council on Science and Technology, also at Princeton University.

Simons has worked on a variety of theoretical problems in solid-earth geophysics, seismology, geodesy, and geomagnetism.

He has made numerous contributions to the study of Earth's mantle, continental structure and evolution using seismic tomography, the analysis of sea level change in the Last Interglacial and of ice sheet mass variations though the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, and to the theory of spatiospectral localization via prolate spheroidal wave functions.

Simons is involved in the design of marine instrumentation for recording earthquakes, specifically iterations of MERMAID. Provided by Wikipedia