Gabi Laski is a professor in geophysics at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. Her research includes: evolution and seismic imaging of the Hawaiian mantle plume, volcanic chain and swell; seismic anisotropy and mantle dynamics, on land and in the oceans; regional and global seismology; analysis methods for seismic surface waves and free oscillations; reference earth models; seismic noise and the development and propagation of storms; and natural disasters and global change.