Email: lapusta@caltech.edu

Dipl., Kiev State University, 1994; M.S., Harvard University, 1996; Ph.D., 2001. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Caltech, 2002-03; Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics, 2003-08; Associate Professor, 2008-10; Professor, 2010-.

Mechanics and physics of earthquakes; fracture and friction processes; seismology; continuum mechanics; computational modeling.

Please see my Research Web Site:    http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~lapusta