Phil Cummins
- Prof, Affiliate
- Australian National University
Phil R. Cummins received his PhD in Geophysics form U. California Berkeley in 1988 and worked as a postdoctoral and research fellow at the Australian National University (ANU) until 1996, when he moved to the Japan Center for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). After leading a geodynamics research unit at JAMSTEC, in 2001 he took up a position leading earthquake and tsunami hazard research at Geoscience Australia (GA). In 2011, he accepted a joint appointment between GA and ANU as Prof. Natural Hazards, where he combines teaching and research in natural hazards at ANU with technical application of earthquake and tsunami science at GA. His research at ANU ranges from the study of historical earthquakes and tsunamis, to the study of basin effects on seismic waves and of source properties of major earthquakes and tsunamis. His work at GA has mostly focused on support for improved earthquake monitoring and hazard assessment in Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.
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