Robert van der Hilst
Professor, ERL Director

Office: 54-522
Phone: 617.253.6977
Email: hilst@mit.edu

Ph.D. 1990, Utrecht University
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Research Interests

• Global Seismology
• Mantle Dynamics

• Ma, P., Wang, P., De Hoop, M.V., Tenorio, L., and Van der Hilst, R.D., Generalized Radon Transform imaging of structure at and near the core mantle boundary: II- Statistical inference of singularities, Journal of Geophysical Research (in press).
• Ren, Y., Stutzmann, E., Van der Hilst, R.D., and J. Besse, Understanding seismic heterogeneities in the lower mantle beneath the Americas from seismic tomography and plate tectonic history, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 112, B01302, doi:10.1029/2005JB004154, 2007.
• Ribe, N., Stutzmann, E., Ren, Y., and Van der Hilst, R. D., Buckling instabilities of subducted lithosphere beneath the transition zone, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (in press, 2007).