Anya Reading

Dr Anya Reading is a senior lecturer in geophysics at both the School of Earth Sciences and the Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits (CODES) at the University of Tasmania. She received a BSc (Hons) in geophysics from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and was awarded a PhD from the University of Leeds, UK, for research on subduction zone structure beneath southern North Island, New Zealand. Dr Reading spent five years in marine and land-based geophysics with the British Antarctic Survey before she joined the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in 1998. In 1999 she received a Diploma of Music from the Open University. In 2000 she moved to Australia and was a research fellow at ANU before she joined University of Tasmania as an academic staff member in 2007.

Dr Reading's research interests include computational methods for analysing data from the natural world, seismological techniques, using ambient seismic energy, the tectonic evolution of Australasia and Antarctica, archaeological and other near-surface geophysics.