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I am a senior research scientist at Caltech. 

I am interested in exploring the thermo-hydro-mechano-frictional properties of rock and faults. My research aims to improve our understanding of earthquakes and the impact of subsurface engineering related, in particular, to geothermal energy production and CO2 storage. These technologies have great potential to help reduce atmospheric CO2, but their importance is impeded by our limited understanding of their geomechanical impact and the risk of induced seismicity.

I have investigated different topics via numerical simulations and laboratory experiments. I conducted both laboratory experiments on permeability evolution and numerical simulation of earthquakes. As a postdoc research associate, I expanded my research towards (i) informing geothermal reservoir simulations with surface deformation and seismicity observations, (ii) simulation of the broad range of frictional slip behavior observed in the laboratory and nature, and (iii) reproducing earthquake statistics with numerical simulations.