Dr. Robert Supper
Robert Supper studied geophysics at the University of Vienna and has been working at the Geological Survey of Austria since 1991. His area of responsibility included the management and implementation of various national and international cooperation and research projects with a focus on the application of airborne-geophysical and geoelectrical methods in the field of natural hazards, groundwater exploration and the search for raw materials. He played a leading role in the development of the geoelectric monitoring system GEOMON4D and has been deputy head of the geophysics department from 2004 - 2015; in 2015 he became head of Division of Applied Geosciences, responsible for the coordination of the departments of Geophysics, Hydrogeology and Geothermics, Engineering Geology, Mineral Resources and Geochemistry. From 2002 to 2012 he was lecturer at the University of Vienna. In 2019 he was appointed vice-director of the geological survey and overtook the role as an acting director in June 2019. In this position, he is responsible for preparing the merging of the meteorological survey and the geological survey of Austria. He is Vice President of the Austrian Geophysical Society and Secretary General of the Austrian National Committee of Geosciences.
Dr. Takao Aizawa
Dr. Takao Aizawa is a geophysicist at Suncoh Consultants in Japan. He has been engaged in geophysics for geo-technical application for constructions and development of geophysical instruments. His major research subjects are Seismic 2D-tomography in the small area, Seismic Interferometry application to the seismic reflection survey using ambient vibration and natural earthquakes, and development of the MEMS acceleration sensors for seismic reflection survey and borehole seismic measurement.
He wrote more than 10 manuals and handbooks on Near surface Geophysics and Geotechnical Engineers between 1999-2021. He was the Chief Editor of the “Application Manual of Geophysical Methods for Engineering and Environmental Problems(EAGE,2014)”. He led the 'Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster Area Support Project' at SEGJ and evaluated the project using Guidelines of OECD-DAC, and was commended by SEGJ.
He served as a board member at SEGJ in 2009-2020, and has served a board member at Fukada Geological Survey since 2020.
Dr. Loke M.H
Dr. Loke obtained a PhD from the University of Birmingham in 1994. He taught at Universiti Sains Malaysia for 25 years and is currently the Director of Geotomo Software Sdn Bhd. His research is on fast inversion methods for 2-D and 3-D geoelectrical data. He received the SEG-EEGS Frank Frischknecht Leadership Award in March 2019. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Geophysics.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Weller
Andreas Weller received a Diploma degree (1982) and a Ph.D. (1984) in geophysics from Freiberg Mining Academy (Germany). Following his graduation, he began his career with Geophysik Leipzig, where he has worked in geophysical exploration and research for seven years. After his habilitation, he received a Werner Heisenberg fellowship and returned to university. He worked at Technische Universität Braunschweig, where he continued research projects on induced polarization. In 1999, he was appointed as Professor of Petrophysics at Clausthal University of Technology (Germany). His areas of interest include the application of geophysical methods in exploration, engineering and archaeology. Most of his research work concerns the electrical properties of rocks with an emphasis on induced polarization and permeability prediction. He has initiated and headed a variety of Vietnamese-German research projects related to the evaluation and monitoring of levees. He is a member of EAGE, SEG, SPWLA, SCA, and German Geophysical Society (DGG).
Prof. Dr. Yoichi Watabe
Professor Yoichi Watabe graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990 and he obtained Doctor of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1995. Then, he joined to work at Port and Airport Research Institute, Japan. After his working carrier for 21 years at Port and Airport Research Institute, he moved to Hokkaido University as a Professor of Division of Civil Engineering in 2016. From 1997 to 1999, he was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. His main research topics have been consistently on soft soil engineering. He has been invited many technical committees for Port and Airport construction projects under the Japanese ministry. Particularly, his contributions were notable for the construction and maintenance of the manmade inlands of the Kansai International Airport and the Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport). From 2010 to 2014, he was a secretary of Japanese Geotechnical Society, JGS, and contributed to organize the 15th Asian Regional Conference of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, ISSMGE. He chaired an ISSMGE-technical committee: TC217 on “Land Reclamation” from 2015-2019. Currently, he chairs an ISSMGE-technical committee TC214 on “Soft Soils: Foundation Engineering for Difficult Soft Soil Conditions” since 2020. As an interdisciplinary field between geotechnical engineering and coastal engineering, he investigated the stability and morphodynamics of intertidal flats through evaluation of shear velocity/stiffness structure using MASW technology.
Dr. Nick Ramsey
Nick Ramsey is a Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer with more than 40 years’ geotechnical experience. Nick’s main interest is the integration of geophysical, geological and geotechnical information to produce cost-effective and project-specific ground models for engineering purposes. Nick has extensive international experience, including projects in Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, Gulf of Mexico, India, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, PNG, Russia and the UK. Nick has previously published papers on the philosophy of developing and optimising offshore geotechnical engineering models.