Isaac Monny PhD

Isaac Monny is a PhD student in Mathematical and Computational Physics whose work bridges computational seismology, physical oceanography, and advanced signal processing. His current research aims to advance the use of seismic techniques as a quantitative tool in oceanography by combining physical constraints, probabilistic inference, and machine learning to improve the accuracy and transferability of subsurface temperature and salinity estimates across diverse marine environments.

Isaac is motivated by the broader implications of seismic oceanography for understanding climate-driven ocean changes, ocean heat content, stratification, and mixing processes--key factors influencing sea-level rise, large-scale circulation, and the habitat conditions of pelagic ecosystems.  

Research and Technical Expertise

• Numerical Simulations: Finite difference, finite volume, and finite element methods for modelling acoustic wave propagation applied to seismic oceanography and fluid dynamics.
• Advanced Signal Processing: Marine seismic data analysis, hydrographic data analysis, wavelet analysis, Fourier analysis, iterative filtering (IF), and machine learning modelling.
• Marine Seismology and Physical Oceanography: Ocean mixing processes, ocean water mass characterisation, ocean circulation, internal waves, turbulent, thermohaline structures, and seismic oceanographic inversion.

 

Education

• MPhil in Mathematical and Computational Physics, KNUST, Ghana, 2025
• MSc in Mathematical Engineering, University of L’Aquila, Italy, 2025

• BSc in Physics (Geophysics), KNUST, Ghana, 2021

 

Conferences, Workshops and Training

• The 1st International Online Conference on Marine Science and Engineering: Current State and Future Trends (IOCMSE 2025) | Organised by the MDPI Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

 

• School/Workshop on Wave Dynamics: Turbulent vs Integrable Effects | The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy

 

• European Digital Ocean Pavilion | Nice, France

 

• Ocean Predict Symposium 2024 (OP’24) “Advancing Ocean Prediction science for societal benefits” | Paris, France

 

• The Earth, Energy, and Environment Student Conference and Exhibition | Hosted by Marietta College, PioPetro, and the University of Houston's Petroleum Engineering department

 

Selected Publication

• Wavelet Spectral Analysis of Seismic Images to Estimate Diapycnal Mixing in the Southeast Indian Ocean (in submission)