About Me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Boston College where I work on the NSF sponsored project “Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Coupling bulk and surface processes in simulating the solid earth with ASPECT and LandLab”. This project seeks to couple the landscape evolution software package LandLab with the lithospheric deformation/mantle convection software package ASPECT. My field of research is computational geodynamics, and I develop numerical models of the Earth’s evolution. In the past I have investigated the flexural response of the Pacific plate due to the loading of the Hawaiian islands, and more recently I have become interested in subduction zone processes and the interactions between surface evolution and the deep Earth. Animations/figures from some of my past modeling studies can be seen here.

Software Development

I am a principal developer and maintainer of the open source geodynamic modeling software the Advanced Solver for Planetary Evolution, Convection, and Tectonics (ASPECT), and the initial conditions generator for geodynamic modeling the Geodynamic World Builder.