Professor Tim Henstock MA, PhD
Professor of Geophysics
Professor Tim Henstock is Professor of Geophysics within Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.
Geophysics uses physics to study the Earth. While we can see what is at the surface, we often want to know what is underneath; equally we may know things about the Earth now, but we want to know how it has got this way. Geophysics is one of the main ways to address these questions. We can do this by using fundamental principles of physics to build mathematical models of processes within the Earth, or by using physical measurements (such as seismic waves, gravity, or temperature) to determine the properties and state of the Earth.
I am unusual in that I work in both of these areas, building models as well as making the observations that motivate the models and can be used to test them. I am also unusual since I have worked across a wide range of length and time scales, from a few cm and hours up to 100s of km and billions of years.
Senior Lecturer, Lecturer, Reader, Professor, University of Southampton 1999-present
Lecturer, University of Southampton, 1999-2004
Lecturer, Rice University, 1998-1999
Research Associate, Rice University, 1994-1999
NERC Research Fellow, University of Oxford, 1993-1994
PhD Geophysics, University of Cambridge, 1994
BA Natural Sciences (Physics and Theoretical Physics), University of Cambridge, 1990 (MA 1994)