Nicholas Rawlinson

Nicholas Rawlinson is affiliated with the University of Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences, where he focuses on seismic imaging, computational seismology, and volcano seismology. His work addresses earthquake hazard studies, subduction zones, and melt migration in crustal systems, with field applications in Iceland and Southeast Asia.

• Research spans volcanic rift zones and active plate margins
• Develops widely used seismic tomography codes
• Collaborates with academia and government organizations in Indonesia and Iceland

His research integrates geodesy and petrology to study magmatic plumbing systems, particularly in Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, and employs fieldwork campaigns in geothermal regions of Sumatra. Graduate students in his group hail from physics, applied mathematics, computer science, and Earth science backgrounds.