Top talent bids for geophysics chief job

Indian geophysicist Paramesh Banerjee has made it to the shortlist of four candidates to head the Institute of Geophysics, part of the China Earthquake Administration.

Banerjee is technical director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore at Nanyang Technological University and president of the Asian Seismological Commission.

He has a doctoral degree in applied geophysics and leads a team of scientists and engineers who are responsible for design, installation, maintenance and data processing for all types of geophysical and geochemical field instrumentation networks, moni toring volcanoes and tectonically active regions in South and Southeast Asia.