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PhD Rafael Rigaud do Amaral

Function and Responsibilities:

I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, holding a PhD in Geophysics. My research focuses on electromagnetic (EM) induction in planetary bodies, particularly on methods involving EM fields generated by natural sources, such as the oceans, ionosphere, and magnetosphere.

At GFZ, I am developing my MSCA project PHOENIX, which explores the use of satellite observations of tidally induced electromagnetic fields to investigate ocean heat content and its variability. To this end, I combine numerical modelling of electromagnetic induction with machine learning techniques.

Research Interests:

  • Modelling of time-varying electromagnetic fields from natural sources

  • Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in geophysics

  • Deep electromagnetic sounding of the Earth and other planetary bodies

  • Estimation of ocean properties from tidally induced electromagnetic fields

  • Deep subsurface exploration using themagnetotelluric (MT) and geomagnetic depth sounding (GDS) methods

  • Geological and geodynamic interpretation of electrical conductivity models

Career:

  • PostDoc (MSCA fellow) at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Section 1.3 ''Earth System Modeling'', since 2026.

Education:

  • PhD in Geophysics at ETH-Zürich, Zürich, 2024.

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