Since january 2008 I am a PhD student in the Seismology and Geodynamics group at ETH Zurich. My work is supervised by Lapo Boschi and Edi Kissling. 

The ultimate goal of our project is to determine a new model of seismic velocities in the crust and upper mantle underlying Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Our current progress is limited to the upper mantle. We use a global surface wave data set with period range from 35s to 300s and an especially good coverage around Switzerland and over central Europe, of resolution higher than what is currently found in the literature. The resulting model for the upper mantle will be complemented by an ambient noise study of the crust, also developed within our group at ETH (Julie Verbeke). Once crustal effects are adequately accounted for, we expect to obtain a very high resolution image of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary.