Biography of Gijs Vermeer

Gijs Vermeer received an MSc in Applied Mathematics from the Technological University of Delft (TUD) in 1965. After military service he joined Shell Research where he carried out seismic processing research, followed by eight years of seismic processing in Shell Expro (London) and NAM (The Netherlands). After another seven years in research, now on seismic interpretation, Gijs joined Shell Canada in 1988, where he was involved in stratigraphic interpretation of carbonate reefs. In 1991 he went back to Shell Research, this time to work on seismic data acquisition techniques.

In February 1997 he started 3DSymSam - Geophysical Advice, a company specialized in 3D survey design and analysis. He is the author of ”Seismic Wavefield Sampling” published in 1990 by the SEG in its Geophysical Reference Series. He also authored a number of papers on 3D symmetric sampling and related subjects. His main interests are seismic data acquisition and seismic data processing, and their interrelationships. February 2001 he obtained a PhD at Delft University of Technology with a dissertation titled “Fundamentals of 3-D seismic survey design”. A commercial version of this thesis was published in October 2002 as “3-D seismic survey design” by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Currently he is working on a second edition of that book. He is a member of EAGE, SEG, CSEG and PESGB.

On the home front, Gijs is married with four children, Willem, Jaap, Annemieke and Myanneke. His wife Tini is a trainer in Dutch for newcomers, and she loves walking, singing, and gardening. Willem is a graduate in Applied Mathematics from TUD. He runs ”Wilpower”, an e-business consultancy and implementation company. Willem is married to Saskia Ooms, also a graduate in Applied Mathematics from TUD. They have three children: Bert, Koos, and Annalena. Saskia is researcher/advisor with Deltares. Jaap is a graduate in Applied Physics at TUD. He moved to Chile in 2000. As from January 2008 Jaap is On Demand Service Delivery Manager with Oracle. Jaap is married to Constanza Gutiérrez, who is a teacher of yoga and a practicing acupuncturist. Their son Alex was born in 2004. In 1998 Annemieke graduated in French at the University of Amsterdam; currently she is a freelancer as Editor and Manuscript Advisor (see Magenta). In 2007 Annemieke tied the knot with Roel Ebus, a graduate of the Technological University of Eindhoven. He is employed by ExxonMobil. Their daughter Lieke was born in 2008. Myanneke is Advisor Business Affairs at the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. Her partner Dennis den Hertog is Project Manager with IBM.