Amos Nur

Amos Nur joins Ingrain as a director and chief technology officer following his retirement in 2008 from nearly four decades in rock physics research at Stanford University. Amos Nur helped found Ingrain in 2007 after working with his colleagues in the Stanford's Rock Physics and Borehole project to create the patented numerical methods behind the company's technology. In addition to founding the Stanford Rock Physics project in 1977, Amos Nur has served as the Wayne Loel Professor of Earth Sciences since 1988. Throughout his career, Amos Nur has conducted critical research in 3-D and 4-D seismic imaging and is widely considered to be one of the world's top academic authorities on rock physics. He holds a B.S. in geology from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.