Resume

Education

1987 – 1991 Ph. D. University of Reading, UK
1984 – 1987 B. A. Hons, Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, UK

Professional Background

2022 –            Research Professor, Boston University
2006 – 2022   Research Associate Professor, Boston University
2004 – 2006   Associate Professor, Boston University
2001 – 2004   Assistant Professor, Boston University
1998 – 2001   Research Associate, Harvard University
1995 – 1998   Scientist at the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand
1991 – 1995   Research Associate, & Associate Research Scientist at University of Southern California
1991 – 1993   Visiting Research Fellowship at the Southern California Earthquake Center

Publications

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Awards and Honours

2024  Meierjurgen Fellowship for visiting scientists, University of Oregon
2020  Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

Professional Activities

  • Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth. American Geophysical Union. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/21699356/editorial-board
  • President-Elect Seismology Section: American Geophysical Union, 2023-2024
  • Member of the Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee (SESAC). The committee
    was established by the 2000 congressional reauthorization of the National
    Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) to advice the Director of the US Geological Survey on matter relating to their participation in this four-agency partnership. 2021-2024.
  • Southern California Earthquake Center: Board of Directors  2018-, Chair of Board 2022, Vice-Chair of Board 2023-
  • Co-Leader (with Dr. A. Baltay) of Southern California Earthquake Center Technical Activity Group: Community Stress Drop Validation Study, https://www.scec.org/research/stress-drop-validation.
  • Scientific Committee, European Centre for Geodynamics and Seismology Workshop, Luxembourg: Earthquake Source Physics on Various Scales, October 2012.
  • Vice-President, Seismological Society of America, 2007-2009.
  • SAFOD Downhole Monitoring Technical Advisory Panel, 2003-2008
  • Elected to Board of Directors, Seismological Society of America, 2003-2006.
  • Convenor of AGU Chapman Conference Radiated Energy and the Physics of Earthquakes, Portland Maine, June 2005. Co-convenors: A. McGarr, USGS, and H. Kanamori, Caltech.
  • Member, NSF Review Panels.
  • American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Program Committee 2000-2001.
  • Co-convenor of Special Sessions at Fall AGU Meeting 2002, 2003, 2014, 2020, 2021.
  • Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research, 1999-2001.
  • Member of the American Geophysical Union, the Seismological Society of America.

Graduate Students:

  • Hilary Chang (co-advisor), MIT, PhD student
  • Jiewen Zhang (co-advisor), University of Oklahoma, PhD 2021
  • Colin Pennington (co-advisor), University of Oklahoma, PhD 2020
  • Rachel Hatch (co-advisor), University of Nevada, Reno, PhD 2020
  • Jenny Nakai (co-advisor), University of Colorado, Boulder, PhD 2018
  • Esteban Chaves (co-advisor), University of California, Santa Cruz, PhD 2018
  • Christine Ruhl (co-advisor), University of Nevada, Reno, PhD 2016
  • Kasey Aderhold, Boston University, PhD 2015
  • Gisela Viegas Fernandes, Boston University, PhD 2009
  • Maya El-Hariri, Boston University, MA 2008.
  • Katherine Murphy, Boston University, MA 2006
  • Jelena Tomic, Boston University,  MA 2004
  • Karen Felzer (co-Advisor) Harvard University, PhD 2003.

Post-Doctoral Fellows:

  • Dr. Qingyu Wang, 2020-2023, at MIT with Prof. William Frank
  • Dr. Qimin Wu, 2018-2020, at University of Oklahoma, with Prof. Xiaowei Chen.
  • Dr. Yakuji Yamada, Boston University 2005-2007, Japanese Science and Technology Fellowship
  • Dr. Eleanor Sonley, Boston University, 2005.

Classes Taught at Boston University:

ES360: Geodyamics I
ES660: Geodynamics for Graduate Students
ES561: Mechanics of Earthquakes
ES505: Plate Tectonics 
ES587: Seminar in Earth Sciences

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