SAM THIELE

The earth is a complex, challenging planet. It is highly structured in many ways, unstructured in others, and largely hidden from view. As an earth scientist I enjoy the challenge of understanding and interpreting the earth systems and processes that shape this complexity... I make geoscience digital, applying data science and computer simulation at their cutting edge to capture, synthesize and analyse diverse and multi-scale earth system data... The earth is 3-D and mostly underground. This means the geometry of faults, ore-deposits and reservoirs must be inferred from sparse observations, requiring sophisticated statistical methods and creating significant uncertainty.