Matthias Morzfeld is an associate professor in the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

Matthias received a “Diplom” in Mechanical Engineering from TU Darmstadt (Germany) and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a postdoc at UC Berkeley’s Math department and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2011-2015, and Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona from 2015 – 2019. Matthias is a frequent visitor to the Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP).