Ebru Bozdağ

Ebru Bozdağ is an Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines, jointly appointed in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Geophysics, and serves as Director of Graduate Studies. She holds affiliations with the Center for Space Resources and is a Faculty Fellow at the Payne Institute. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at Université Côte d’Azur (France) and a researcher at Princeton University.

Education:

• PhD in Geophysics, Utrecht University (2005–2009)
• MSc & BSc in Geophysics, Istanbul Technical University (2000–2002 & 1996–2000)

Research Interests: Focuses on computational seismology, including full-waveform inversion, global seismic tomography, and planetary seismology (e.g., Mars InSight mission). Specializes in 3D seismic wave simulations and adjoint techniques for Earth’s interior imaging. Recently expanded to exploration-scale problems and computational optimizations.

Awards & Grants:

• Chaire d’Excellence (France)
• NSF SCOPED Project (collaborative multi-institutional)
• Leadership Resource Allocation (LRAC) on Frontera supercomputer
• PRACE award for Marconi100 GPU system

Advising: Supervised PhD student Caio, who defended in 2021. Actively recruiting students with backgrounds in geophysics, computational sciences, or mathematics.

Labs & Teams: Leading computational efforts in global seismology, including collaborations on the Mars InSight mission and high-performance computing projects on systems like Fugaku and Titan.