My name’s Pat Marty and I develop software tools in the field of acoustics. Most of my work is focused around:

• Medical ultrasound imaging
• Finite-element meshing
• Spectral-element modelling

The software tools I work with are used to model how sound waves move through different materials. This information is used to create images of the internal structures of a particular medium.

I’m currently working on my PhD at ETH Zürich where I’m developing techniques for imaging the human brain using ultrasound. Since conventional ultrasound can’t image through hard materials such as bone, I’m adapting techniques developed in seismic imaging and applying them to medical ultrasound.

Apart from my research in medical ultrasound, I’m also a part-time developer at the ETH Spin-off Mondaic AG, which develops the spectral-element solver Salvus. This software is used in fields ranging from global scale seismology to non-destructive testing.