Tristan van Leeuwen is a Professor of Computational Inverse Problems at Utrecht University's Faculty of Science, within the Mathematical Institute's Department of Mathematical Modeling. He holds a MSc in Computational Science (2006) and a PhD in Geophysics (2010). His career includes postdoctoral roles at the University of British Columbia and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), followed by faculty positions at Utrecht University and group leadership at CWI. His research focuses on inverse problems, scientific computing, imaging reconstruction, and computational methods for geophysics and medical imaging. Key areas include wave-equation inversion, tomographic reconstruction, and uncertainty quantification. Notable contributions span seismic inversion techniques, convex optimization frameworks for tomography, and deep learning applications in imaging. His publications emphasize methodologies like wavefield reconstruction inversion, convex programming for shape sensing, and Bayesian approaches for uncertainty analysis. He collaborates with institutions like CWI and the University of British Columbia, contributing to open-source tools like Tomosipo for tomography. His work bridges theoretical mathematics with practical applications in geophysics, medical diagnostics, and industrial inspection.






