Lasse Amundsen earned an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in physics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He worked for GECO and SINTEF Petroleum Research before joining Statoil ASA as a research geophysicist in 1991. Since 1995, he has been adjunct professor at NTNU, first in the Department of Physics and now in the Department of Petroleum Technology and Applied Geophys-ics. Amundsen received the Norwegian Geophysical Prize in 2002. His research deals with the theory of wave propagation in acoustic, elastodynamic, and electromagnetic media, with application to geophysical problems. He is a member of SEG and EAGE.