György Hetényi earned his PhD degree in 2007 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and since 2015 is professor of geophysics at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research focuses on orogenic processes: the internal structure of mountain belts imaged by passive seismology and gravimetry, as well as physical and chemical processes taking place on timescales ranging from earthquakes to tectonics and metamorphism. György was/is active in several international, collaborative projects focusing on the Himalayas and the Alps.