Dr. Nicholas Irabor ADIMAH

Dr. Nicholas Irabor ADIMAH

Supervisor: Prof. TAN Yen Joe

Room 309, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building
Dr. Nicholas Irabor ADIMAH

Education

2020 Ph.D. Geophysics (Seismology) Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI)
2014 M.Sc. Physics (Solid Earth Physics) University of Ibadan
2010 B.S. Physics Ambrose Alli University

Academic Employments

2022 – Present Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth System Science Programme, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
2022 – 2022 Research Assistant, Earth System Science Programme, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
2015 – 2022 Lecturer, The Certified Institute of Shipping of Nigeria.
2012 – 2014 Tutorial Assistant, University of Ibadan

Research Fields and Current Research Interests

  • Ocean bottom seismology
  • Ambient seismic noise
  • Seismic tomography and anisotropy
  • Crustal and upper mantle structure and dynamics
  • Machine learning in seismology

Representative Publications

Adimah, N. I. and Padhy, S (2020), Depth dependent azimuthal anisotropy in Madagascar island from ambient noise tomography, Tectonophysics, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228513.
Adimah, N. I. and Padhy, S. (2019), Ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography across the Madagascar island, Geophysical Journal International, 220(3):1657–1676.

Honours and Awards

2022 The University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Visiting researcher award.
2019 CSIR – NGRI grant for CSIR-800 Project (Earthquake Awareness Program in Uttar Pradesh, India).
2016 CSIR – TWAS Postgraduate Fellowship.
2014 Best graduating Masters’ student, Department of Physics, University of Ibadan.
2010 Academic Excellence Award as best graduating undergraduate

Teaching

Past

PHY114 Basic Principles of Physics I - Mechanics and Properties of Matter.
PHY115 Basic Principles of Physics II - Heat and Thermodynamics
PHY113 Basic Principles of Physics IV - Waves, Optics and Modern Physics.
PHY118 Experimental Physics I.

Selected Recent Publications

  1. Adimah, N. I. and Padhy, S (2020), Depth dependent azimuthal anisotropy in Madagascar island from ambient noise tomography, Tectonophysics, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228513.
  2. Adimah, N. I. and Padhy, S. (2019), Ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography across the Madagascar island, Geophysical Journal International, 220(3):1657–1676.

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