2026 Andreas Fichtner: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	51	3216	2939	86	82	357	9721

Overview

Andreas Fichtner is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Their research work focuses primarily on geophysics and related subfields including ocean engineering, artificial intelligence, atmospheric science, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include seismic waves and analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, earthquake and tectonic studies, seismology and earthquake studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geophysics and sensor technology, along with geological and geochemical analysis.

Andreas Fichtner has authored numerous publications, some of which are:

Distributed acoustic sensing of microseismic sources and wave propagation in glaciated terrain (2020), published in Nature Communications
Bayesian Elastic Full-Waveform Inversion Using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
Empirical Investigations of the Instrument Response for Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) across 17 Octaves (2020), published in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Volcano-Glacial Environments-Mount Meager, British Columbia (2021), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
Global-Scale Full-Waveform Ambient Noise Inversion (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Their frequent coauthors include Sölvi Thrastarson, B. L. N. Kennett, Christian Boehm, Lion Krischer, and Patrick Paitz. Andreas Fichtner's work appears frequently in venues such as Geophysical Journal International, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, and the Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich).

In addition to journal articles, Andreas Fichtner has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press:

Exploiting Seismic Waveforms (2020)

Best Publications

Full Seismic Waveform Modelling and Inversion

Andreas Fichtner

746
Citations
Full seismic waveform tomography for upper-mantle structure in the Australasian region using adjoint methods

Andreas Fichtner;Brian L. N. Kennett;Heiner Igel;Hans-Peter Bunge

505
Citations
The adjoint method in seismology: I. Theory

A. Fichtner;H.-P. Bunge;H. Igel

403
Citations
It's a Hard Lock Life: A Field Study of Smartphone (Un)Locking Behavior and Risk Perception

Marian Harbach;Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Andreas Fichtner;Alexander De Luca

326
Citations
Theoretical background for continental‐ and global‐scale full‐waveform inversion in the time–frequency domain

Andreas Fichtner;Brian L. N. Kennett;Heiner Igel;Hans-Peter Bunge

310
Citations
The Iceland-Jan Mayen plume system and its impact on mantle dynamics in the North Atlantic region: Evidence from full-waveform inversion

Florian Rickers;Andreas Fichtner;Jeannot Trampert

299
Citations
Resolution analysis in full waveform inversion

Andreas Fichtner;Jeannot Trampert

268
Citations
Multiscale full waveform inversion

Andreas Fichtner;Jeannot Trampert;Paul Cupillard;Erdinc Saygin

266
Citations
Hessian kernels of seismic data functionals based upon adjoint techniques

Andreas Fichtner;Jeannot Trampert

265
Citations
Distributed acoustic sensing of microseismic sources and wave propagation in glaciated terrain

Fabian Walter;Dominik Gräff;Fabian Lindner;Patrick Paitz

238
Citations
Full waveform tomography for radially anisotropic structure: New insights into present and past states of the Australasian upper mantle

Andreas Fichtner;Andreas Fichtner;Brian L.N. Kennett;Heiner Igel;Hans-Peter Bunge

234
Citations
Modular and flexible spectral-element waveform modelling in two and three dimensions

Michael Afanasiev;Christian Boehm;Martin van Driel;Lion Krischer

211
Citations
Seismic Tomography and the Assessment of Uncertainty

Nicholas Rawlinson;Andreas Fichtner;Malcolm Sambridge;Mallory K. Young

197
Citations
The deep structure of the North Anatolian Fault Zone

Andreas Fichtner;Erdinc Saygin;Tuncay Taymaz;Paul Cupillard

180
Citations
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo solution of tomographic inverse problems

Andreas Fichtner;Andrea Zunino;Lars Gebraad

154
Citations
Crust and upper mantle of the western Mediterranean – Constraints from full-waveform inversion

Andreas Fichtner;Antonio Villaseñor

135
Citations
Bayesian Elastic Full-Waveform Inversion Using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Lars Gebraad;Christian Boehm;Andreas Fichtner

132
Citations
Seismic ambient noise

Nori Nakata;Lucia Gualtieri;Andreas Fichtner

131
Citations
Australian Seismological Reference Model (AuSREM): mantle component

Brian Kennett;Andreas Fichtner;Stewart Fishwick;K Yoshizawa

129
Citations
Empirical Investigations of the Instrument Response for Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) across 17 Octaves

Patrick Paitz;Pascal Edme;Dominik Gräff;Fabian Walter

117
Citations
Resolution analysis by random probing

Andreas Fichtner;Tristan van Leeuwen

99
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Heiner Igel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Jeannot Trampert Utrecht University

Brian Kennett Australian National University

Martin van Driel ETH Zurich

Hans-Peter Bunge Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Tuncay Taymaz Istanbul Technical University

Dave A. May University of Oxford

Frederik Tilmann Freie Universität Berlin

Rob Govers Utrecht University

Antonio Villaseñor Spanish National Research Council

External Links

Personal website of Andreas Fichtner

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