After studying geophysics at the University of Münster, Georg Rümpker received his PhD degree in seismology from Queen’s University (Canada) in 1996. He continued his career as a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and later at GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam as a research scientist. Since 2004, Rümpker has been professor of geophysics at the Institute of Geosciences at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. He joined FIAS in May 2020.