Computer-Oriented Geoscience Lab

A 2025 retrospective of the CompGeoLab

Published on 2025/12/19 by Leonardo Uieda.

2025 is drawing to a close and I’d like to end it with a brief retrospective of all that happened in the Lab this past year. Overall, it was a great and productive year, with some ups and downs, busy moments, good reviews, bad reviews, but altogether good time with great people. So here’s a (probably not comprehensive) list of all we did:

  1. Gelson came back to São Paulo after spending a year at Harvard University making tons of measurements on our collaborator Roger Fu’s Quantum Diamond Microscope. All of his hard work resulted in a preprint about a huge improvement to his inversion method, a preprint about non-dipolar effects in microscopy (in collaboration with Ualisson Bellon from Edinburgh), and tons of datasets for us to analyse! There will actually be two more results coming out of this 1-year stay at Harvard which we hope to share with everyone in 2026.
  2. India had her first first-author paper published, which contains some really unexpected results from applying a dual-layer setup to equivalent sources interpolation of magnetic data. This will be the basis for a lot of the work the Lab will be doing in the coming years!
  3. I had the chance to finally work on a paper I started in 2012 which introduces Euler Inversion, a brand new formulation of the Euler deconvolution problem which is much more stable and robust.
  4. Gabriel completed his undergraduate research project on 3D inversion of gravity data and is starting a new one revisiting a relationship between the Bouguer gravity disturbance and topography.
  5. Undergraduate researchers Felipe Nascimento Hong, Paulo Eduardo Crystal, and Sofia Vieira dos Santos have joined the lab and will be working on all sorts of problems related to potential fields in the coming year. They bring a lot of new life into the Lab and I’m really excited to share what they accomplish in 2026!
  6. Arthur and Yago presented their MSc projects at the 8th LATINMAG Meeting in Morelia, Mexico.
  7. Eros, Gabriel, Arthur, and Yago presented their work at the Rio’25 Conference of the SBGf. All of them received a ton of praise for their work and I was so proud of all of them!
  8. Me, Yago, and Arthur taught the workshop “Kit de sobrevivência digital para cientistas” at the IAG Geophysics Summer School which was really well received by the participants and which we’ll be teaching again in 2026.
Montage of four pictures. Top left: white man with dark hair and short beard smiling next to a poster. Top right: white man with short beard behind a lectern next to a projection with other people in the audience. Bottom left: four people standig around a poster looking thoughtful. Bottom right: white bald man with a long beard smiling and doing the shaka sign next to a poster.
Photos of Arthur (top left), Yago (top right), Gabriel (bottom left), and Eros (bottom right) presenting their work at the Rio'25 Conference in Rio de Janeiro in November.

All in all, it was a great year and I couldn’t have asked for a better group of people with which to spend it. I’m so proud of all that they have achieved in 2025 and I’m really looking forward to 2026!

Leo

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