The staff listed below work primarily in this field of study, but they often contribute to work across UTIG. Likewise, staff whose primary discipline is another focus within UTIG often contribute to work in this field and may not be listed below. To see staff by other primary discipline please visit: Climate, Energy, and Polar and Planetary.

 

Research Scientists
Adrien Arnulf Research Associate 512-471-0376 aarnulf@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismic imaging, mid-ocean ridges, convergent margins More Info	Jamie Austin Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0450 jamie@ig.utexas.edu Interests: continental margin stratigraphy, tsunamigenesic processes on continental margins, scientific ocean drilling More Info	Nathan Bangs Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0424 nathan@ig.utexas.edu Interests: faults, structural geology, tectonics, and lithospheric dynamics, climate More Info	Thorsten Becker Professor twb@ig.utexas.edu Interests: geodynamics, seismology, fault systems More Info
Gail Christeson Sr. Research Scientist/Associate Director 512-471-0463 gail@ig.utexas.edu Interests: marine geophysics, ocean bottom seismometer, marine seismology More Info	Ian W. D. Dalziel Research Professor 512-471-0431 ian@ig.utexas.edu Interests: Earth history, tectonics, Antarctic geology More Info	John Damuth Visiting Research/Scholar damuth@uta.edu Interests: More Info	Cliff Frohlich Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0460 cliff@ig.utexas.edu Interests: earthquakes, tectonics More Info
Craig Fulthorpe Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0459 craig@ig.utexas.edu Interests: continental margins, seismic stratigraphy, sedimentary geology More Info	John A. Goff Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0476 goff@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seafloor mapping, coastal processes, geostatistics More Info	Sean P. S. Gulick Research Professor 512-471-0483 sean@ig.utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, plate boundaries, glacial sequences, impact processes More Info	Shuoshuo Han Research Associate 512-471-0415 han@ig.utexas.edu Interests: subduction zones, oceanic lithosphere, marine geohazards” More Info
Brian Horton Professor 512-471-1869 horton@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, basin analysis, sediment provenance More Info	Luc Lavier Associate Professor 512-471-0455 luc@ig.utexas.edu Interests: flow and deformation of Earth's materials, tectonics of plate boundaries, computational methods for lithospheric deformation More Info	Lawrence Lawver Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0433 lawver@ig.utexas.edu Interests: plate tectonics, marine geophysics, polar regions More Info	Cornelia Rasmussen Research Associate crasmussen@utexas.edu Interests: impact cratering, radiogenic and stable isotope geochemistry, paleoecology More Info
Demian Saffer Director & Scott Petty Jr. Endowed Chair Professor, Department of Geological Sciences 512-471-6156 demian.saffer@austin.utexas.edu Interests: active tectonics, fault/sediment mechanics, geohydrology More Info	Harm Van Avendonk Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0429 harm@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismic tomography, marine geophysics, geophysical data analysis More Info	Laura M. Wallace Research Scientist 512-471-0324 lwallace@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, crustal deformation, earthquakes More Info
Postdoctoral Fellows
Silvia Brizzi Postdoctoral Fellow brizzi.silvia@austin.utexas.edu Interests: subduction dynamics and seismotectonics, megathrust seismicity, mountain building and interactions between surface processes, tectonics and mantle dynamics More Info	Robert Porritt Postdoctoral Fellow rporritt@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismology, tectonics, subduction, cratons More Info
Technical and Administrative Support
Marcy Davis Engineering Scientist 512-471-0425 marcy@ig.utexas.edu	Dan Duncan Engineering Scientist 512-471-0490 dduncan@ig.utexas.edu	Thomas Hess Research Scientist Associate V 512-232-5934 thomas_hess@mail.utexas.edu	Gabriel Lotto University Professional (Part-Time) 512-471-7775 gabriel@ig.utexas.edu Interests: subduction zones, earthquake rupture, tsunamis, risk and resilience More Info
Steffen Saustrup Research Scientist Associate V 512-471-0442 steffen@ig.utexas.edu
Current Students
James Biemiller james.biemiller@utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, geodesy, geodynamic modeling More Info	Jake Burstein jtburstein@utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, sonar-swath mapping, estuarine and barrier island stratigraphy, climate science	Kristina Butler kristina.butler@utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, basin-evolution, depositional mechanics	Ethan Conrad econrad@utexas.edu Interests: structural geology, tectonics, analog modeling, rock friction
Andrew Gase agase@ig.utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, tectonics, crustal structure Office: 3.102J More Info	Brooklyn Gose brooklyn@ig.utexas.edu Office: 3.108	Erin Heilman erin.heilman@utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, geophysics, modeling	Eric Hiatt eric.hiatt@utexas.edu Interests: planetary surface processes, post-impact hydrothermal systems, hydrology, habitability More Info
Dominik Kardell dkardell@utexas.edu Interests: marine geophysics, tectonics, seismology More Info	Alexandra Lachner alachner@utexas.edu Interests: subduction tectonics, fault kinematics, geodynamics, dynamic topography, computational modeling	Naoma McCall naoma@ig.utexas.edu Office: 3.104	Peter Miller pkmiller1@utexas.edu
Nicholas Montiel nmontiel@email.arizona.edu Interests: geophysics of extensional systems, structural geology, carbon geochemistry, global climate More Info	Kelly Olsen kolsen@utexas.edu Interests: seismology, convergent margins, tectonics, marine geophysics More Info	Simone Puel spuel@utexas.edu Interests: geophysics, geodynamics, seismology, earthquake modeling, numerical modeling and tectonics More Info	Catherine Ross catherine.ross@utexas.edu Office: 3.104 Interests: shock metamorphism, geo/thermochronology, microstructural analysis, geochemistry, impact craters, earthquakes More Info
Brandon Shuck brandon.shuck@utexas.edu Interests: marine geophysics, seismology, tectonics More Info	Wanying Wang wanying@utexas.edu Office: 2.116J