Biography

Maximilian Lowe is a PostDoc in potential field geophysics at Kiel University and a BAS Honorary Researcher.

Max did his PhD at BAS as a University of Edinburgh registered NERC SENSE CDT student under the supervision of Tom Jordan, Rob Larter, Chris Green and Jörg Ebbing. After his PhD, Max worked briefly as Aerogeophysical Data Modeller at BAS. Here he worked on the NERC funded SWARM project. In particular he worked on the first large scale gravity and magnetic airborne survey conducted with an UAV in Antarctica.

Prior to his PhD, Max gained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Kiel University, and worked as a researcher in the satellite and aerogeophysics group.

Max’s main research interests are 3D lithospheric modelling with satellite and airborne gravity & magnetic data, Solid Earth – Cryosphere interactions, heat flow in polar regions, probabilistic modelling and inversion, and tectonophysics.

Research interests:

• Heat flow in polar regions
• 3D Lithospheric modelling with satellite and airborne gravity & magnetic data
• Solid Earth – Cryosphere interactions
• Probabilistic modelling and inversion
• Tectonophysics

Grants awarded:

• 800 $ (USD), INSTANT Conference Travel Grant, September 2023.
• £ 1000 (GBP), small IT grant, School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh,  March 2022.
• £ 500 (GBP), Gray-Milne Travel Bursary, British Geophysical Association, September 2021.
• £ 900 (GBP), Covid-19 Support Fund, British Geophysical Association, June 2021.
• Satellite Data in Environmental Science Centre for Doctoral Training studentship funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), 10/2020-06/2024.
• 100 € (Euro), Student conference travel support fund, Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft, 2019.

Experiences:

• 10/2024 – 04/2024: PostDoc: Kiel University, working group: Satellite and Aerogeophysics.
• 06/2024 – 09/2024: PostDoc: Aerogeophysical Data Modeller, British Antarctic Survey
• 07/2023: IHFC Heat Flow Summer School 2023
• 03/2021: ESA 3D Earth Spring School – Geodynamics and Solid Earth
• 10/2020 – 06/2024: PhD student, University of Edinburgh & British Antarctic Survey.
• 11/2019 – 09/2020: Researcher, Kiel University, working group: Satellite and Aerogeophysics.
• 10/2016 – 09/2019: Msc. Geophysics, University of Kiel.
• 10/2013 – 09/2016: Bsc. Geosciences, University of Kiel.

Teaching:

• Winter term (Lent term) 2024, demonstrator for cartography and GIS practicals, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Winter term 2018/2019, demonstrator for gravimeter and magnetic practicals, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.
• Winter term 2018/2019, demonstrator for gravimeter and magnetic field measurements, Kiel University, Germany.
• Winter term 2017/2018, demonstrator for gravimeter and magnetic practicals, Kiel University, Germany.
• Winter term 2017/2018, demonstrator for gravimeter and magnetic field measurements, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.

Memberships:

2023 -present: Royal Astronomical Society Fellow

2023 – present: British Geophysical Association 

2020 – 2022: American Geophysical Union

2020 – present: European Geosciences Union

2018 – present: Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft (German Geophysical Association)

Research interests

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