Student Bio
Robiah Al Wardah is a graduate student at the Queen’s University in the Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering. Her PhD project on Rapid Geophysical Sensor Deployment using UAS for Emergency Response will be co-supervised by Prof. Alexander Braun and Prof. Alexis Lussier Desbiens. She graduated with master degree from Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) in 2018. Her master thesis was concentrated on the passive acoustic monitoring. The goal of the study was to analyze environmental data using supervised learning tools that have been done previously by Malfante et al. (2018) particularly to monitor fish activities in their habitat. She obtained her bachelor degree from Universitas Gadjah Mada after doing research about Wavelet denoising of Merapi phreatic eruption data from Kaliurang station.
Her previous research in geophysical studies commenced in 2011 where she processed and analyzed microearthquake data at Rajabasa geothermal field under Geoseismal. In Geoseismal, she also processed earthquake data to provide input in seismic hazard assesment in nuclear power plant site study at Bangka in 2012. In 2015-2017, she supported research in DOMERAPI project. In addition, she used some of her personal work of localization of the seismo-volcanic activity of Merapi to be presented at the annual congress of the Indonesian Association of Geophysics (pit HAGI). She also participated in the deployment of seismic networks around the Opak fault located south of the city of Yogyakarta as part of a project led by Universitas Gadjah Mada and IRD, co-funded by campus France (Nusantara project) and the Indonesian Ministry of Research. During the summer break in 2016, she assisted a PhD student on his thesis about ”Preliminary Result of Earthquake Source Parameters the Mw 3.4, August 21, 2004, Central Java, Indonesia” Based on MERAMEX Project. The study aims to investigate the structure subsurface at Merapi Lawu anomaly (MLA) using forward modelling or full waveform inversion (Laksono et al.,2018). She participated in the earthquake relocation and spectral analysis of the earthquake data. Then she joined AXA Climate in 2020. She participated in developing a tool based on the historical and instrumental seismicity to obtain the history of event and the estimation of earthquake return period for any kind of area worldwide. Aside from that, she also helped the underwriters in doing risk and hazard analysis for earthquake perils in where their clients are.
Her research interests are principally in earth science and data science. While her primary focus of her past researches were mainly on passive seismic, diverse topic in earth science also captivates her. Additionally, diving into geophysics for more pragmatical use such as in geophysical consulting or in insurance business intrigue her interests as well.