Group meeting, SIO, April 2025

Group meeting, Munich, February 2025

Group meeting, San Diego, February 2025

ChEESE meeting with TUM collaborators, Iceland, September 2024

Our group’s research bridges space-time scales as well as disciplines within Geophysics, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. We aim to harness the full breadth of Earth observations integrated with novel modeling approaches and study a range of geophysical problems with multi-physics character such as earthquake-tsunami interaction.  Our team has members at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California San Diego (UCSD) and at Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Germany.

Current PostDocs



Current PhD Students

Former Postdocs

Graduated PhD students

  • Nico Schliwa (LMU, graduated 2025 with summa cum laude, 2021 SSA Student Presentation Award)
  • Zihua Niu (LMU, graduated 2025 with summa cum laude, co-advised with H. Igel, 2023 AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award)
  • Nicolas J. Hayek (LMU, graduated 2025 with summa cum laude, co-advised with P. Bunge)
  • Taufiqurrahman (LMU, graduated 2023 with magna cum laude, now at Ionity)
  • Thomas Ulrich (LMU, graduated 2020 with summa cum laude, now PostDoc at LMU Munich)
  • Stephanie Wollherr (LMU, graduated 2018 with magna cum laude, now at Mercedes Benz)

Co-mentored and Visiting PhD Students & Postdocs

  • David Schneller (PhD student, TUM, advisor: Michael Bader)
  • Vikas Kurapati (PhD student, TUM, advisor: Michael Bader)
  • Francesco Mosconi (PhD student, Uni Roma, advisor: Elisa Tinti, Massimo Cocco)
  • Gabrielle Hobson (PhD student, SIO, advisor: Dave May) 
  • Yesim Çubuk-Sabuncu (PostDoc, Icelandic Meterological Office, advisor: Benedikt Halldorson)
  • Vincent van der Heiden (PhD student, Utrecht University, advisor: Ylona van Dinther)
  • Zoe Yin (PhD student, SIO, advisor: Jennifer Haase, now USGS Mendenhall PostDoc)
  • Sebastian Wolf (PhD student, TUM, advisor: Michael Bader, now at NVIDIA)
  • Kadek H. Palgunadi (PhD student, KAUST, advisor: Martin Mai, now PostDoc at ETH Zürich)
  • Hugo Sanchez Reyes (PostDoc, IRSN, advisor: Oona Scotti, Sebastien Hok, now Researcher at ISTerre, Grenoble) 
  • Lukas Krenz (PhD student, TUM, advisor: Michael Bader, now at NVIDIA)
  • Lauren Abrahams (PhD student, Stanford University, advisor: Eric Dunham, now at Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
  • Iris van Zelst (PhD student, ETH Zurich, advisor: Ylona van Dinther, now PostDoc at DLR)  

MSc. students

  • Selin Bulut (2025)
  • Fabian Kutschera (2023)
  • Hongyi Su (2023)
  • Amrit Bal (SIO, 2021)
  • Nico Schliwa (2021)
  • Andrea Perez (2019)
  • Tomy Gunawan (2018)
  • Mitchel Williams (2018)
  • Magdalena Perleth (2018)
  • Yongki Andita Aiman (2018)
  • Kilian Gessele (2018)
  • On Ki Angel Ling (2018)
  • Ashim Rijal (2017)
  • Mirjam Weingärtner (2016)
  • Sujania Talavera Soza (2016)
  • Amaryllis Nerger (2014)
  • Behnam Tang Eysh, (2014)

 BSc. students

  • Anna Fröhlich (2022)
  • Moritz Urban (2022)
  • David Lehr Campos (2022)
  • Gizem Yildirim (2021)
  • Sophia Gahr (2021)
  • Janina Moser (2021)
  • Fabian Kutschera (2020)
  • Thomas Obermaier (2020)
  • Nico Schliwa (2019)
  • Sandra Forndran (2019)
  • Thiemo Bühler (2019)
  • Fabian Risch (2018)