Geodynamics Team

• Current team members

  Edward Clennett

  Xiang He

  Huiwen Sun

  Chao Song

  
  

  Chuanming Liu

  Kaixuan Kang

  Dunyu Liu

  Thorsten Becker

  
  

• Former team members

  • Summer undergraduate interns:
    • At UT Austin: Dorothy Linnemann (2017, Scripps College, with Lavier), Jorge Garcia (2023, UT Austin), Violeta Andrade (2024, UC Berkeley).
    • 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, 2022-2023), Jake Goins (research committee member, 2020-2021), Zel Hurewitz (BSc 2019, Physics; grad school UCSD)
    • At USC: Bradford Foley⁴¹ (BSc 2008; Associate 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:
    • At UT Austin:
      • current: Xiang He (2024-) and Huiwen Sun (2022-).
      • Edward Clennett¹⁵¹ (2020-2024, Instructor at Birkbeck College)
      • Ethan M. Conrad^152,159 (PhD 2024, Post-doc at UCL)
      • Simone Puel^{128,144,153,156,161} (PhD 2023; Post-doc at Caltech)
      • Erin Heilman^146,158 (PhD 2023; research scientist at LANL),
      • Wanying Wang¹²⁵ (PhD 2021; research scientist at bp)
    • At USC:
      • Adam Holt^{87,89,90,92,105-107,113} (PhD 2016; Assistant Professor, U Miami)
      • Michael Kaplan (PhD 2015; Post-doc, Duke; MD)
      • Mélanie Gérault^62,121 (PhD 2014; Post-doc, MIT)
      • Thomas Goebel^{61, 69, 75, 77, 80, 111} (PhD 2013; Associate Professor, U Memphis)
      • Lisa Alpert^51,63,73 (PhD 2012; Aera Energy Llc.)
      • Iain Bailey^38,47,51,63 (PhD 2009; Swiss Re).
    • Committee service at UT Austin:
      • Sohini Dasgupta (2023-), Avigyan Chatterjee (2021-), Chenyu Tian (2020-), Chujie Liu (2017-2023, PhD 2023), Keith Minor (2019-2022, PhD 2022), Juan Gutierrez (2021-2022), Eric Hiatt (2020-2021), Brandon Schuck (2018-2021, PhD 2021), Peter Nelson (2017-2020, PhD 2020), Alexandra Lachner (2019-2020), Yanyao Zhang (2018-2020), Kristina Butler (2018-2020), Chang Lu (2018-2020), Brooklyn Gose (2017-2020), and Lily R. Serach (2017-2019).
  • Other PhD committee service:
    • At the University of Southern California, Los Angeles: Jessica Stellman⁹³ (2014-2020), William Schmidt (2015-2016), Beth Paulson (2014-2016), Xinjiang Xiang (2015), Xin Song (2014-2015), Xin Liu (2014-2015), 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), and 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, 2014-2022.
  • Post-docs:
    • Chao Song (2024-)
    • Chuanming Liu$^mathrm162 (2023-)
    • Kaixuan Kang (2023-)
    • Junlin Hua¹⁴⁹ (2022-2024; post-doc, Brown; co-advised with Steve Grand)
    • Antoniette G. Grima¹⁵⁷ (2020-2022; Assistant Professor, University of Glasgow)
    • Eivind Straume¹⁵⁵ (2021-2023; Post-Doc, University of Bergen)
    • Silvia Brizzi¹⁴¹ (2020-2022; Post-Doc, U Roma TRE)
    • Rob Porritt^{88,100,124,140} (2017-2019; Research Scientist, Sandia).
    • Matt Weller¹²² (2016-2019; Research Scientist, LPI)
    • Lukas Fuchs^{122,125,135,147,154} (2016-2018; Research Scientist, 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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