Dr. Michael Commer

Profile

Academic position	Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fields	Geophysics
Keywords	computational electromagnetics, large-scale and parallel computing, optimization techniques, three-dimensional modeling, geophysical inverse problems
Honours and awards	2009: R&D 100 Award 2004: Klaus-Liebrecht-Preis (Mat.-Nat.-Fakultät der Universität zu Köln)

Current contact address

Country	Germany
City	Köln
Institution	Universität zu Köln
Institute	Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie (IGM)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gregory Alex Newman	Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley
Start of initial sponsorship	01/01/2005

Programme(s)

2004	Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2008	Michael Commer, G. A. Newman, J. J. Carazzone, T. A. Dickens, K. E. Green, L. A. Wahrmund, D. E. Willen, J. Shiu Massively parallel electrical-conductivity imaging of hydrocarbons using the IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer. In: IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2008, 93-103
2008	Michael Commer, Gregory A. Newman: New advances in three-dimensional controlled-source electromagnetic inversion. In: Geophysical Journal International, 2008, 513-535
2006	Michael Commer, Gregory A. Newman: An accelerated time domain finite-difference simulation scheme for three-dimensional transient electromagnetic modeling using geometric multigrid concepts. In: Radio Science, RS3007, doi:10.1029/2005RS003413, 2006, 1-15
2006	Michael Commer, Stefan L. Helwig, Andreas Hoerdt, Carsten Scholl, Buelent Tezkan: New results on the resistivity structure of Merapi Volcano (Indonesia), derived from three-dimensional restricted inversion of long-offset transient electromagnetic data . In: Geophysical Journal International, 2006, 1172-1187