Earthquake complexity and scaling laws
Connecting fracture mechanics at a microscopic scale to the timing, extent, and complexity of earthquake ruptures.
Selected Projects
I enjoy making things. Here are a selection of projects that I have worked on over the years.
Seismic cycles on geometrically complex faults
How fault roughness and geometrical complexity in the damage zone affect normal stress, earthquake nucleation, and seismicity.
How do earthquakes start?
Advancing theoretical models of earthquake nucleation and uncovering its seismological signature.
Slow and fast slip at subduction plate boundaries
The roles of depth-dependent rheology and structural heterogeneity in the interplay of slow deformation and earthquakes in subduction zones.
Earthquake triggering and operational earthquake forecasting
Physics-based models of static, dynamic, and magmatic stress triggering, and their application to operational earthquake forecasting.