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Research Interests

Multi-scale dynamics of deformation in the lithosphere: from the seismic-cycle time scale (duration between characteristic ruptures on a fault, ~10²-10³ yrs) to orogenesis (~10⁶-10⁷ yrs). Numerical modeling of elastic and inelastic (non-recoverable) deformation using appropriate rheologies for fault creep and crustal materials, as well as surface modification processes (erosion, uplift, sedimentation). Numerical modeling of ice-sheet dynamics. Modeling fault zone processes such as frictional melting, and hydrothermal flow. Use of geodetic, seismic, structural, geochronological and geomorphological data-sets to constrain lithospheric rheology and structure over the above time-scales, including Monte-Carlo/ Bayesian inversion based methods.