Curriculum Vitae

Kees Wapenaar

Section of Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics, Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Degrees B.Sc. degree Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology, 1979. Thesis. M.Sc. degree Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology, 1981. Thesis. Ph.D. degree Applied Science (cum laude), Delft University of Technology, 1986. Thesis. Positions at Delft University of Technology Postdoctoral research fellow, funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), 1987-1991. Associate professor, Laboratory of Seismics and Acoustics, Faculty of Applied Physics, 1992-1998. Co-projectleader of DELPHI, a consortium project on seismic imaging and characterization, 1990-1998. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor (personal professorship), 1999-2022. Inaugural address, 2001 (in Dutch: Seismische reflecties) Head of Section of Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics, Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, 2002-2022. Valedictory address, 2023 (in Dutch: Huygens' principe 2.0) Emeritus professor of Geophysics, Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, as of 2023. Publications 250 journal papers (of which 90 as first author). List and papers. H-index: Google Scholar 70, Scopus 57, ISI 48. Book (as author): Elastic wave field extrapolation (Elsevier), 1989. pdf-file Book (as editor): Seismic interferometry (Society of Exploration Geophysicists), 2008. pdf-file Book (as editor): Geophysics Today (Society of Exploration Geophysicists), 2010. Supervised theses 69 (co-)supervised Ph.D. theses. List and theses. 100 (co-)supervised M.Sc. theses. pdf-file Editorships Associate editor for Geophysical Prospecting, 1987-1991. Associate editor for the Journal of Seismic Exploration, 1991-2017. Assistant / Associate editor for Geophysics, 2001-2007 and 2009-2013. Editor of a special issue on integrated 4D seismics for the Journal of Seismic Exploration, 2002. Editor of a special issue on seismic interferometry for Geophysics, 2006. Editor-in-Chief of Geophysics, 2007-2009. Editor of a special issue on the relation between exploration and global seismology for Geophysical Prospecting, 2008. Editor of the 75th Anniversary special section for Geophysics, 2010. Member of Editorial Board of the Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, 2015-2018. Co-editor of EPL (Europhysics Letters), 2018-2021. Awards and recognition Shell study award, 1986. Research fellowship of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences KNAW, 1987-1991. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professorship, 1999. Co-recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award, SEG, 2001 (Awarded to the Laboratory of Seismics and Acoustics, Delft University of Technology). SEG-Wiki Best poster award (Louis Cagniard Award, EAGE, 2005): Artman, B., Draganov, D., Wapenaar, K., and Biondi, B., 2004, Direct migration of passive seismic data , 66th annual EAGE meeting, Paris, P-075 Nomination as top-30 presentation of 9 SEG papers in 2005 (3x), 2010 (2x), 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. Distinguished Lecturer, EAGE, 2006. pdf-file Best journal paper award: Wapenaar, K., and Fokkema, J., 2006, Green's function representations for seismic interferometry: Geophysics, Vol. 71, SI33-SI46. pdf-file Honorable mention for best journal paper: Curtis, A., Gerstoft, P., Sato, H., Snieder, R., and Wapenaar, K., 2006, Seismic interferometry - turning noise into signal: The Leading Edge, Vol. 25, (9), 1082-1092. pdf-file Staringlezing, 2007, The subsurface of the Netherlands uncovered by ambient noise: presented at the Royal Geological Society of the Netherlands KNGMG Best conference paper award (as senior co-author): Van der Neut, J., Mehta, K., Thorbecke, J., and Wapenaar, K., 2010, Controlled-source elastic interferometric imaging by multi-dimensional deconvolution with downhole receivers below a complex overburden, 80th annual SEG meeting, Denver, 3979-3985, Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal Award, SEG, 2010: SEG-Wiki Conrad Schlumberger Award, EAGE, 2013: Eage-Awards Best journal paper award (Lorand Eotvos Award, EAGE, 2016): Van der Neut, J., and Wapenaar, K., 2015, Point-spread functions for interferometric imaging: Geophysical Prospecting, Vol. 63, 1033-1049. pdf-file ERC Advanced Grant, European Research Council, 2016: Virtual seismology Honorable mention for best journal paper: Zhang, L., Thorbecke, J., Wapenaar, K., and Slob, E., 2019, Data-driven internal multiple elimination and its consequences for imaging: A comparison of strategies: Geophysics, Vol. 84 (5), S365-S372. pdf-file Listed in "100 influential papers from 100 years of Geophysical Journal International", 2024, with paper: Wapenaar, K., Thorbecke, J., and Draganov, D., 2004, Relations between reflection and transmission responses of three-dimensional inhomogeneous media: Geoph. J. Int., Vol. 156, 179-194. pdf-file Best journal paper award (Lorand Eotvos Award, EAGE, 2026): Wapenaar, K., 2025, Multiple reflections on Huygens' principle: Geophysical Prospecting, Vol. 73, e70038. pdf-file. Research interests: Recent research: Beyond standard wave propagation Marchenko imaging Seismic interferometry Reciprocity and its applications Recent projects: Page last modified: May-2026