Directory

Faculty

Operations and Research Staff

Postdocs/Visiting Scientists | Graduate Students | Undergraduate Students

Faculty

Richard Allen

Director
[email protected]

Doug Dreger

Associate Director
[email protected]

Norman Abrahamson

Civil and Environmental Engineering
[email protected]

Alexandre Bayen

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
[email protected]

Jonathan Bray

Civil and Environmental Engineering
[email protected]
510-642-9843

Bruce Buffett

Earth and Planetary Science
[email protected]
510-642-1251

Roland Burgmann

Earth and Planetary Science
[email protected]
510-643-9545

Ken Goldberg

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
[email protected]
510-643-9565

Raymond Jeanloz

Earth and Planetary Science
[email protected]
510-642-2639

Michael Manga

Earth and Planetary Science
[email protected]
510-643-8532

Burkhard Militzer

Earth and Planetary Science
[email protected]
510-643-7414

Jack Moehle

Civil and Environmental Engineering
[email protected]
510-642-0697

James Rector

Civil and Environmental Engineering
[email protected]
510-643-7820

Barbara Romanowicz

Earth and Planetary Science
[email protected]

Nicholas Sitar

Civil and Environmental Engineering
[email protected]

Kenichi Soga

Civil and Environmental Engineering
[email protected]
(510) 664-7534

Taka'aki Taira

Research Seismologist
[email protected]

Chi-Yuen Wang

Earth and Planetary Science
[email protected]
510-642-2288

Hans-Rudolf Wenk

Earth and Planetary Science
[email protected]
510-642-7431

Weiqiang Zhu

Earth and Planetary Science
[email protected]

Operations and Research Staff

Julien Marty

Operations Manager
[email protected]

Valerie Acton

Systems Administrator
[email protected]

Andrei Akimov

Applications Programmer
[email protected]

Zack Alexy

Engineer
[email protected]
510-642-3976

Steve Allen

Applications Programmer
[email protected]
510-643-3898

Mario Aranha

IT Applications Programmer
[email protected]
510-643-3898

Mark Ballew

Systems Administrator

Sierra Boyd

Research Data Analyst
[email protected]

Matthew Carli

Financial Analyst
[email protected]

Dylan Cembalski

Engineer
[email protected]
510-619-5365

George Dorian

Engineer
[email protected]
510-642-3976

Ivan Henson

IT Applications Manager
[email protected]
510-664-9029

Aya Ibayashi

Applications Programmer
[email protected]

Jeremy Kaplan

Engineer
[email protected]

Angela Lux

Project Scientist
[email protected]

Alvaro Medina

Engineer
[email protected]

Akie Mejia

Akie Mejia

IT Applications Programmer
[email protected]

Jonah Merritt

Field Operations Manager
[email protected]
510-665-5055

Paul Milligan

Information Systems Analyst
[email protected]
510-664-5119

Robert Nadeau

Research Seismologist
[email protected]
510-643-3980

Charley Paffenbarger

IT Systems Administrator
[email protected]
510-642-5333

Brian Pardini

Systems Administrator
[email protected]

Aileen (Ellie) Paterson

Financial Officer, BSL
[email protected]
510-642-2961

Suresh Raman

MyShake Lead
[email protected]

Samantha Stanley

Technical Engagement Regional Coordinator
[email protected]

Nicholas Stein

Engineer
[email protected]
510-642-3976

Jennifer Taggart

Web & Ops Developer
[email protected]

Fabia Terra

Project Manager
[email protected]
510-642-5907

Stephen Thompson

IT Systems Manager
[email protected]
510-664-9177

Christina Valen

Data Analyst
[email protected]

Junli Zhang

Applications Programmer
[email protected]

Stephane Zuzlewski

IT Database Administrator
[email protected]
510-664-9029

Postdocs and Visting Scientists

Li-Wei Chen

Imaging Earth's Internal Structure, Full-Waveform Tomography, Ocean-Bottom Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), and Seismic Anisotropy.
[email protected]

Yifang Cheng

Seismic source properties, spatiotemporal variation of seismicity, and fault zone structures
[email protected]

Kelian Dascher-Cousineau

Fault mechanics, earthquake physics, forecasting, geomorphology
[email protected]

Utpal Kumar

Computational seismology, Geodesy, Geophysical data analysis
[email protected]

Chao Lyu

Computational seismology, Homogenzied Full Waveform Inversion, Hybrid Wave Numerical Simulation
[email protected]

Artie Rodgers

Earthquake strong motion simulation, Bay Area earthquakes
[email protected]

Dorian Soergel


[email protected]

Amy Williamson

Earthquake and tsunami early warning
[email protected]

Yuankun Xu

Yuankun’s work focuses on landslides over the U.S. West Coast. He conducts research using InSAR, field instrumentation, and hydromechanical modeling to understand the physics of landslide processes.
[email protected]

Rodrigo Chi

Earth's Core Dynamics and Seismic Sources
[email protected]

Graduate Students

Tyler Cadena

Volcanology
[email protected]

Prajna Paramita Das

Seismology
[email protected]

Mrinal Dursun


[email protected]

Yuancong Gou

Seismology
[email protected]

Isis Lemus

Active Tectonics and Earthquake Hazard
[email protected]

Danielle Lindsay

Geodetic observations, active tectonics, slow earthquakes
[email protected]

Savvas Marcou

Real-time Seismology and the MyShake Project
[email protected]

Bo Rong

Seismology
[email protected]

Zach Smith

Interaction between tectonics and fluid flow
[email protected]

Undergraduate Students

Yair Morales

Earthquake Early Warning, Real-time Seismology
[email protected]

Administrative Staff (Shared with Earth and Planetary Sciences)

Aileen (Ellie) Paterson

Financial Officer, BSL
[email protected]
510-642-2961

David Elvins

Research Administrator, ERSO
[email protected]

Alysiana Halter

Project Policy Analyst
[email protected]

Heather Murthy

Research Administrator, ERSO
[email protected]

Veronica Padilla

Management Services Officer, EPS
[email protected]
510-642-4540

Drew Vaeth

Budget Officer, EPS
[email protected]
510-642-2727

Anthony Vitan

Director of Facilities, MPS Dean's Office
[email protected]
(P)510-642-2242 (C)510-334-5068

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