Current research group members
Savvas Marcou | PhD candidate, 2022-present MSc Imperial College London Smartphone sensor networks |
Yifang Cheng | Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-present PhD University of Southern California Earthquake source properties and faulting mechanisms |
Amy Williamson | Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-present PhD University of Oregon Earthquake and tsunami warning |
Yuancong Gou | PhD candidate, 2021-present BSc Nanjing University Machine learning, earthquake catalogs, sensing technology |
Claire Doody | PhD candidate, 2018-present BA Chicago University, 2018 Structure of subduction zones |
Sarina Patel | PhD candidate, 2017-present BA Middlebury College, 2015 Sensor networks |
Angela Chung | Project Scientist 2017-present Postdoctoral Fellow, Berkeley, 2014-2017; PhD Stanford 2014 Earthquake early warning algorithms |
Former students and postdocs
Qingkai Kong | PhD Berkeley 2018. Assist. Researcher, 2018-2021 Thesis: MyShake – Building a global smartphone seismic network Now Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Lab |
William Hawley | PhD Berkeley 2019 Thesis: The Life and Death of a Tectonic Plate: Imaging the Juan de Fuca Plate with Amphibious Seismic Data Now National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia |
Robert Martin-Short | PhD Berkeley 2019 Thesis: Seismic investigation of subduction in Cascadia and Alaska and Simulating the ability of MyShake networks to detect and locate earthquakes Now Data Scientists at App Annie |
Asaf Inbal | Postdoctoral fellow, 2016-2018. PhD Caltech, 2016 Array detection and characterization of seismic sources Now faculty at Tel Aviv University |
Christine Ruhl | Postdoctoral fellow, 2016-2018. Christine Ruhl, PhD University of Nevada, Reno, 2016 Large magnitude earthquake sources and geodetic network detection Now faculty at University of Tulsa |
Diego Melgar | Postdoc Fellow 2014-2015; Researcher 2015-2017 PhD University of California, San Diego, 2014 Large earthquake ruptures Now faculty at the University of Oregon |
Cheng Cheng | PhD 2016, UC Berkeley Thesis: Seismic constrains on a double-layered Hawaiian plume and the Cascadia subduction slab heterogeneity |
Ran Nof | Postdoctoral fellow 2014-2016 PhD Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2012 Developing earthquake early warning for Israel Now Research Scientist at the Geological Institute of Israel |
Ronni Grapenthin | Postdoctoral fellow, 2012-2014. PhD, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2012. Deformation source studies and development of real-time GPS processing methodologies Now Assistant Professor at New Mexico Tech |
Rob Porritt | PhD 2013, UC Berkeley Thesis: Tracing the Farallon plate through seismic imaging with USArray. Now NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California. |
Lingsen Meng | Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2013. PhD, Caltech, 2012. Physiccs of large earthquakes Now Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles |
Serdar Kuyuk | Postdoctoral fellow, 2011-2013. PhD, Tohoku University, 2008. Earthquake early warning implementation in California Now Professor at Sakarya University, Turkey |
Simona Colombelli | Visiting PhD student 2012, UC Berkeley. PhD candidate, University of Naples Federico II Rapid characterization of large magnitude earthquakes using real-time GPS |
Pascal Audet | Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2011. Subduction and triple-junction processes. Now Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa. |
Holly Brown | PhD 2012, UC Berkeley Thesis: Evaluating and Improving the ElarmS Earthquake Early Warning Algorithm. |
Mathias Obrebski | Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2011. Imaging North America. Now Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. |
Gilead Wurman | PhD 2010, UC Berkeley Thesis: Earthquake Early Warning and the Physics of Earthquake Rupture. Now Chief Seismologist, Seismic Warning Systems. |
David Shelly | Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2008. Episodic tremor and slip. Now Research Geophysicist, USGS Menlo Park. |
Mei Xue | PhD 2008, UC Berkeley. Thesis: Using Seismic Methods to Constrain Mantle Convection Processes. Now Associate Professor, Global Seismology & Geodynamics, School of Ocean & Earth Science, Tongji University, In Shanghai. website |
Veronica Grasso | PhD 2006, University of Naples (visiting student at UC Berkeley). Thesis: Uncertainty in earthquake warning systems. Now Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery Team, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Geneva. |
Erik Olson | MSc 2005, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Thesis: A new way to look at fault rupture: Understanding and characterizing earthquake predominant period Now Geophysicist, AIR Worldwide, Boston. |
Andrew Lockman | MSc 2004, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Thesis: Earthquake early warning using P-wave arrivals Now Geotechnical Engineer, MWH Americas in Denver. |