Martha Savage, PhD

Martha Savage is a Professor of Geophysics at Victoria University of Wellington.

She has been at the university for 27 years, where she teaches geophysics, tectonics, and seismology. Her research interests are seismology and its relation to tectonics, earthquake & volcanic hazards and geothermal development. She previously worked at the Carnegie Institute of Washington and the University of Nevada. She received her MSc and PhD in Geophysics from University of Wisconsin, Madison and her BA in physics from Swarthmore College.

She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2011 and became the first New Zealand female to be a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2015.