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
- Baoning Wu (2024-, John W. Miles Fellow, SIO, 2025 SSA Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Award)
- Yohai Magen (2024-, Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, SIO)
- Claudia Abril (2024-, LMU)
- Bar Oryan (2024-, Green Scholar, SIO)
- Mathilde Marchandon (2022-, LMU)
- Thomas Ulrich (2020–, LMU)
Current PhD Students
- Piyush Karki (2024-, LMU, co-advised with M. Bader)
- Fabian Kutschera (2023–, SIO)
- Rachel Preca Trapani (2023–, LMU)
- Jonatan Glehman (2022–, SIO, co-advised with Y. Bock)
- Iris Christadler, (2022-, LMU)
- John Rekoske (2021–, SIO, co-advised with D. May)
- Jeremy Wong (2021–, SIO, co-advised with W. Fan)
- Jeena Yun (2021–, SIO, co- advised with Y. Fialko, 2024 AGU OSPA, 2025 SSA Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Award, 2025 SSA Student Presentation Award)
- S. Aniko Wirp (2019–, LMU)
Former Postdocs
- Anthony Jourdon (2022-24, now Research Engineer at GeoAzur Nice)
- Casper Pranger (2020-2024)
- Duo Li (2018–23, now Senior Seismologist at GNS, New Zealand)
- James Biemiller (2021–22, Green Scholar, now Mendenhall PostDoc at USGS)
- Bo Li (2019–22, now PostDoc at KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
- Carsten Uphoff (2020–21, now at Intel)
- Kenneth C. Duru (2016–19, now faculty at University of Texas, El Paso)
- Elizabeth H. Madden (2015–18, now faculty at San Jose State University)
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)