Welcome

I am an Associate Research Scientist with the UC Santa Cruz Seismological Laboratory. I received my PhD working with the California Institute of Technology Seismological Laboratory and Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and was previously an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. My research focuses on investigating the nature of fracture and frictional sliding, both in terms of developing theoretical and laboratory-based descriptions of failure processes as well as their implications for natural phenomena, such as earthquakes and landslides. My work aims to develop and utilize computational methods to study the behavior of such systems, bridge insight between the scales spanning laboratory and geophysical field measurements, and examine how remote geophysics observables can be used to constrain the physics governing failure processes in nature.

I also co-lead the Statewide California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS) code-verification project.

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Potential students and postdocs:

I am always interested in working with graduate students, undergraduate researchers, and postdocs on various problems in mechanics, geophysics, numerical methods and scientific computing. Current projects include studies on the physics of earthquakes and landslides. Please contact me via email (subject line Prospective Student/Postdoc) to discuss opportunities.