Juliet Biggs

Early life and education Juliet Biggs was born in Ascot, Berkshire and attended Coworth Park Primary School, Sunningdale and the Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton. Both her parents were academic mathematicians Norman L. Biggs and Christine Farmer. She studied geology as specialism in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge. As an undergraduate, she did summer research internships at the University of Southampton and Caltech. She moved to the University of Oxford as a doctoral researcher, where she studied the earthquake cycle at the Denali Fault. During her doctoral research supervised by Barry Parsons and , Biggs used interferometric synthetic-aperture radar (InSAR) to determine strain around faults. This strategy has been adopted by InSAR researchers around the world.

Research and career During her postdoctoral research, Biggs started working with satellite imagery to understand volcanoes. In 2010, Biggs joined the University of Bristol, where she was made a full professor in 2019. Her research investigates earthquakes, volcanoes and the earthquake cycle, especially in the East African Rift and Latin America. where she has identified that several volcanoes previously considered dormant are in fact evolving rapidly. . In 2020, she was awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant to image volcanoes using 'strain tomography'.

Awards and honours 2012 Royal Astronomical Society Winton Award 2016 British Geophysical Association Bullerwell Lecture 2016 Lloyd's of London Science of Risk Prize 2017 American Geophysical Union John Wahr Early Career Award 2022 European Research Council (ERC) consolidator Grant

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