Dr. Andy Hopper

Andy Hooper studied geology at the University of Oxford, graduating in 1997. He then spent a year at the University of North Carolina, before returning to the U.K. to work as a computing consultant. In 2000 Andy went to Stanford University, completing a Masters in geophysics in 2002 and a Ph.D. in 2006. His thesis concerned developing new techniques for using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data to better detect deformation at the Earth’s surface, and modelling surface deformation measured at volcanoes. During a year away from Stanford in 2002-2003, he worked on the TerraSAR-X satellite mission at the German Space Centre (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhoffen.

Following his Ph.D. Andy spent a one and a half years doing postdoctoral research at the Nordic Volcanological Centre of the University of Iceland before joining the Department of Earth Observation and Space Systems as Assistant Professor in 2008.

Current research interests include interferometric SAR processing algorithms, three-dimensional phase integer ambiguity resolution (phase unwrapping) and modeling of volcanic, tectonic and glacioisostatic deformation.