Interviewed by BBC Radio 4 – The World Tonight, during which we talk about recent discoveries on the Earth’s core. “And are we any closer to knowing what it would be like to journey to the centre of the earth?” Listen to the episode on the BBC website (featured at 40:58)

Interviewed by The Naked Scientists in Cambridge, together with colleagues James Jackson and Tehnuka Ilanko, answering questions from the audience. “How can studying seismology help us understand and possibly predict earthquakes and volcanoes? We are talking extreme geology this week, as we’re joined by three esteemed guests from the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge…

Nature Geoscience highlighted our article “Reconciling the hemispherical structure of Earth’s inner core with its super-rotation“, as one of the ten favourite papers in their web focus that celebrates “the fifth anniversary of Nature Geoscience“. “Nature Geoscience is now five years old. To celebrate, we look back on some numbers regarding the publication process in…

Interviewed by the AcademiaNet. AcademiaNet brings excellent women researchers into the spotlight for those wishing to find members for scientific bodies or to fill leadership positions, reporting on science, programming conferences, or looking to bring in experts for making decisions. You can read the interview here. “Dr. Arwen Deuss, lecturer in theoretical geophysics at the…

Took part in an episode of the BBC Horizon program “The Core”. “For centuries we have dreamt of reaching the centre of the Earth. Now scientists are uncovering a bizarre and alien world that lies 4,000 miles beneath our feet, unlike anything we know on the surface. It is a planet buried within the planet…

We reconciled the existence of hemispherical variations in inner core structure, with the idea that the inner core is super rotating faster than the rest of the Earth. We found that the boundaries between the two hemispheres shift east wards with depth, with agrees with an extremely slow inner core super rotation of around 0.1…

We developed a novel method to study inner core structure using whole Earth oscillations. The observed inner core anisotropy reveals more complicated regional variations than a simple Eastern versus Western hemispherical pattern. The similarity of this pattern with the Earth’s magnetic field suggest that it may be responsible for the origin of the anisotropy. Our…

Ons Science paper “Regional Variation of Inner Core Anisotropy from Seismic Normal Mode Observations” wordt uitgelicht in het NRC artikel “De galm van de Aardkern”. “De ijzeren aardkern is gevierendeeld. Het aardmagnetisch veld is daardoor niet overal even sterk, aldus geofysicus Arwen Deuss.” Bekijk hier het NRC artikel.

We used global observations of SS precursors to study the 520-km discontinuity in detail, and found that in some regions this discontinuity is ‘split’ into two, resulting in discontinuities around 510 and 560 km depth. These observations require the existence of a phase transition in garnet in addition to the olivine phase transition from wadsleite…

The Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant featured our observations of inner core shear waves, also called PKJKP, in the article “Trager golfje verraadt vaste aardkern”. “On the table lies the manuscript of a scientific publication in which the first proof is provided that the inner core of the earth is solid. The (provisional) title is very…