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I am an Associate Research Scientist and the Principal Investigator of the Computational Geomechanics Group at the UC Santa Cruz Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and a Senior Engineering Seismologist with AECOM. I received my PhD working with the California Institute of Technology Seismological Laboratory and Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and was previously an National Science Foundation 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 analytic and computational methods to study the behavior of such systems, bridge insight between the scales spanning laboratory and geophysical field measurements, and examine how remote geophysical 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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