Geodynamics Team

• Current team members

  • Thorsten Becker (faculty)
  • Edward Clennett (grad student)
  • Ethan Conrad (grad student, with Faccenna)
  • Antoniette Grima (post-doc)
  • Erin Heilman (grad student)
  • Dunyu Liu (UTIG Computational Geoscientist)
  • Simone Puel (grad student)
  • Eivind Straume (JSG PLATES-4D post-doc)
  
  

• Former team members

  • Summer undergraduate interns:
    • At UT Austin: Dorothy Linnemann (2017, Scripps College, with Lavier)
    • At USC: Fabienne Stockmann (2014, Münster University), Simon Schneider (2013, Münster University), Kevin Milner³⁵ (2008, USC), Jared Sain³⁵ (2008, USC), Hannah Waterhouse³⁵ (2008, Bryn Mawr College), and Katrin Plenkers (2005, Karlsruhe).
  • Undergraduate advisees:
    • At UT Austin: Miles Mackenzie (research advisor, Physics, 2022-), Jake Goins (research committee member, 2020 - 2021), Zel Hurewitz (BSc 2019, Physics; grad school USCS)
    • At USC: Bradford Foley⁴¹ (BSc 2008; Assistant Professor, Penn State)
  • MSc students:
    • At UT Austin: Antoine Demont (visiting from ENS Paris, 2020), Kunpeng Liao (MSc 2018; CGG)
    • At USC: Zi-Yu Wu (MSc 2010; Guosen Securities) and Claire Steedman³² (MSc 2006; Iris Environmental)
  • PhD students:
    • Supervised:
      • current: Erin Heilman (2018-), Simone Puel^128,144 (2018-), Ethan Conrad (2019-, co-advisor), Edward Clennett (2020-)
      • At UT Austin: Wanying Wang¹²⁵ (PhD 2021; bp US)
      • At USC:
        • Adam Holt^{87,89,90,92,105-107,113,115} (PhD 2016; Assistant Professor, U Miami)
        • Michael Kaplan (PhD 2015; post-doc, Duke)
        • Mélanie Gérault^62,121 (PhD 2014; post-doc, MIT)
        • Thomas Goebel^{61, 69, 75, 77, 80, 111} (PhD 2013; Assistant Professor, U Memphis)
        • Lisa Alpert^51,63,73 (PhD 2012; Aera Energy Llc.)
        • Iain Bailey^38,47,51,63 (PhD 2009; Swiss Re).
    • Committee member/examination chair at The University of Texas at Austin:
      • Avigyan Chatterjee (2021-), Juan Gutierrez (2021-2022), Eric Hiatt (external chair, 2020-2021), Chenyu Tian (2020-), Keith Minor (external chair, 2019-2021), Alexandra Lachner (2019-2020), Yanyao Zhang (2018-), Kristina Butler (external chair, 2018-2020), Chang Lu (2018-), Brandon Schuck (2018-2021, PHD 2021), Lily R. Serach (external chair, 2017-2019), Brooklyn Gose (2017-2020), Chujie Liu (2017- 2020, Phd 2020), Peter Nelson (2017-2020, PhD 2020).
  • Other PhD committee service:
    • At the University of Southern California, Los Angeles: Jessica Stellman⁹³ (2014-), William Schmidt (2015-2016), Xinjiang Xiang (2015), Xin Song (2014-2015), Xin Liu (2014-2015), Beth Paulson (2014-2016), Chris Milliner (2013-2015), Haoran Xia (2013-2015), Francoix Cadieux (PhD 2015), Feng Wang (PhD 2013), Prabu Sellappan (PhD 2013), Whitney Behr (PhD 2011), Zheqiang Shi (PhD 2008), Adam Fischer (PhD 2008), Jeremy Zechar (PhD 2008).
    • External PhD reviewer: Christopher Mathews (ANU, 2021), Angela Maria Gomez Garcia (U Medellin, 2020), Juliane Dannberg (GFZ Potsdam, 2016), Raquibul Hassan (U Sydney, 2016), Rene Gassmöller (GFZ Potsdam, 2014), and Sabin Zahirovic (U Sydney, 2014).
    • Member of the Board, International Graduate School, Department of Earth Sciences, Universita di Roma TRE, 2014-.
  • Post-doc mentoring:
    • Antoniette Grima (2020-)
    • Eivind Straume (2021-)
    • Silvia Brizzi¹⁴¹ (2020-2022; post-doc, U Roma TRE)
    • Rob Porritt^{88,100,124,140} (2017-2019; researcher, Sandia).
    • Matt Weller¹²² (2016-2019; researcher, LPI)
    • Lukas Fuchs^122,125,135 (2016-2018; post-doc, U. Frankfurt)
    • Attreyee Ghosh^{44, 68} (2008-2010; Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
    • Boris Kaus^{20,31-33,40,62} (2005-2006; Professor, Mainz University)
    • Jules Browaeys²² (2006; Geophysicist, Total E&P Norge AS)
  (Superscript numerals refer to joint publications during supervision.)
  

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