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Walter Frei (1942), dipl. Natw. ETHZ, Geophysicist

Co-founder and managing director

field of work:
managing director, project management, data acquisition, processing, interpretation

Contact:
Walter Frei / GeoExpert ag
Oberfeldstrasse 6
CH - 8514 Amlikon-Bissegg
Tel +41 71 652 60 70
Mob +41 79 709 09 74
E-Mail

career:
Walter Frei (1942) started his professional career as a merchant navy seaman in 1957 and, having served as chief officer on supertankers, fruit carriers, gas tankers and ore carriers, he started studying geophysics in 1971 which he completed with a diploma degree in 1975. He then spent the following six years with Shell in the Netherlands and in Irian Jaya (Indonesian New Guinea) working in seismic data acquisition and processing and well log data analysis. After moving to Switzerland he then held posts as a programmer developing wire line data evaluation software for a logging contractor, and as a part time assistant professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, lecturing seismic methods in civil engineering between 1982 and 1999. He was assistant director for the Swiss National Science Foundation Programme 20 (Deep Structures of the Swiss Alps) from 1985 until 1991 and as such responsible for the acquisition and processing of reflection seismic data.

Walter co-founded GeoExpert in 1988 and has since then been its managing director.

languages:
German, English, French, Dutch, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

whilst not on duty...
His main interests include travelling, languages, sports, politics and a glass of wine with good friends.