Curriculum Vitae

Simons Chair in Computational and Applied Mathematics and Earth Science
Rice University
2035 Duncan Hall
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Email: mdehoop@rice.edu
Phone: 713-348-5723

Education: 

1979 – 1984 Enrolled as a student in the Department of Physics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
1981 B.Sc.-Degree in physics with mathematics and astronomy (cum laude), Utrecht University, the Netherlands
1984 M.Sc.-Degree in theoretical physics (cum laude), Utrecht University, the Netherlands
1992 Ph.D.-Degree in technical sciences (cum laude), Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Professional career:

2015 – present Simons Chair and Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics and Earth Science, Rice University, Houston TX, USA
2007 – 2019 Visiting professor at the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
2001 – 2019 Part-time visiting professor and visiting associate professor, the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA
2005 – 2015 Professor, the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, USA
2003 – 2005 Professor, the Center for Wave Phenomena, the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, USA
1997 – 2003 Associate professor, the Center for Wave Phenomena, the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, USA
1995 – 1997 Research assistant professor and visiting professor, the Center for Wave Phenomena, the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, USA
1992 – 1995 Senior research scientist and programme leader, Schlumberger Cambridge Research, Cambridge, England
1985 – 1992 Research geophysicist, Koninklijke/Shell Exploratie en Produktie Laboratorium, Rijswijk, the Netherlands

Other Positions:

2022 – 2023 Adviser, UNIPLAT
2010 – 2018 Scientific adviser, Corporate Science and Technology, Total American Services, Inc.
2010 – 2011 DARPA, Transparent Earth Initiative
2004 – 2005 Consultant, Corporate Science and Technology, Total American Services, Inc.

Awards and honors:

  • Recipient of the J. Clarence Karcher Award, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (1996)
  • Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (2025)

Organizer of conferences, workshops and special programs:

  • member program committee Mathematical Methods in Geophysical Imaging III, SPIE
  • International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation (San Diego CA, July 1995);
  • member technical program committee 69th Annual Meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (Houston TX, October 1999);
  • co-organizer Society of Exploration Geophysicists Summer Research Workshop on Synergies in Geophysical, Medical and Space Imaging (Newport Beach CA, July 2001);
  • member scientific committee IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) / SIAM/EMS conference on Applied Inverse Problems: Theoretical and Computational Aspects (UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center, May 2003);
  • member organizing committee PIMS (Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences) Geophysical Inversion Workshop (Calgary, Canada, July 2003);
  • member international program committee International Conference on Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation (Fethiye, Turkey, June 2004);
  • member scientific committee Waves 2005 (Brown University RI, June 2005);
  • co-organizer Workshop on Subsalt Imaging Problems (Colorado School of Mines CO, July 2005);
  • co-organizer Workshop on Microlocal Analysis and Harmonic Analysis in Inverse Problems (C.I.R.M., Marseille, France, March 2007);
  • member steering committee Applied Inverse Problems (Vancouver, Canada, June 2007);
  • program leader (chair) of program on Random Media (2007-08) at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (Research Triangle Park, NC);
  • member organizing committee SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (San Diego CA, July 2008);
  • member scientific committee (IMA PI conference on) Dynamical Systems in Physiological Modeling (Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, October 2008);
  • member scientific committee International Conference on Generalized Functions (Vienna, Austria, August-September 2009);
  • co-organizer program on Inverse Problems and Applications (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley CA, Fall 2010);
  • member organizing committee International Symposium on Geophysical Imaging with Localized Waves (Sanya, Hainan, China, July 2011);
  • member organizing committee SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (Philadelphia PA, May 2012);
  • member organizing committee scientific program on Inverse Problems and Applications (Institut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden, Spring 2013);
  • member scientific committee Applied Inverse Problems (Helsinki, Finland, May 2015).
  • organizer MATH + X Symposium on Seismology and Inverse Problems (Houston TX, January 2017);
  • co-organizer workshop on Recent Advances in Seismic Modeling and Inversion: From Analysis to Applications (Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, Providence RI, November 2017);
  • organizer MATH + X Symposium on Data Science and Inverse Problems in Geophysics (Houston TX, January 2018);
  • co-organizer mini-workshop on Deep Learning and Inverse Problems (Mathematische Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, March 2018);
  • co-organizer DOE workshop on Information is in the Noise: Signatures of Evolving Fracture Systems (Gaithersburg MD, March 2018).
  • co-organizer NIPS workshop on Machine Learning for Geophysical and Geochemical Signals (Montreal, Canada, December 2018);
  • organizer MATH + X Symposium on Inverse Problems and Deep Learning in Space Exploration (Houston TX, January 2019);
  • co-organizer 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning in Solid Earth Geoscience (Santa Fe NM, March 2019);
  • co-organizer 4th Workshop on Inverse Problems, Imaging and PDEs (Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, HKUST, Hong Kong, May 2019);
  • organizer MATH+X Symposium on Inverse Problems and Deep Learning, Mitigating Natural Hazards (Las Catalinas, Costa Rica, January 2020);
  • organizer MATH + X Symposium on Matter under Extreme Conditions in Solar Sys- tem Giant Planets and Exoplanets, Inverse Problems and Deep Learning (Las Catalinas, Costa Rica, November 2022);
  • organizer MATH + X Symposium on Dynamos, Planetary Exploration and General Relativity, Inverse Problems and Machine Learning (Hella, Iceland, May 2023);
  • co-organizer Data to Decisions: Bridging the Gap with ML Workshop (CPG KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, February 2025);
  • member organizing committee SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (Minneapolis MN, March 2026);
  • co-organizer program on Inverse Problems and Applications (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute / Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, Berkeley CA, Fall 2027);

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