Announcements

Congratulations to our newest alumna, Dr. Chen Gu! Today she successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Ground Motions and Source Mechanisms of Earthquakes in Multiscales— Microseismicity to Macroseismicity”. She is shown here with he advisors, ERL founder Prof. Nafi Toksoz and Prof. Brian Evans, and her committee chair, Prof. German Prieto.

MIT News featured fascinating work on fluid flow in porous rock by ERL Prof. Ruben Juanes, grad student Benzhong Zhao, an their collaborator Prof. Chris MacMinn at Oxford. http://news.mit.edu/2016/physics-how-fluids-flow-porous-media-carbon-fuel-cell-0822

Congratulations to our newest alumnus, Dr. Bruno Gonçalves da Silva!!! Earlier today he successfully defended his PhD thesis in Civil and Environental Engineering entitled “Fracturing processes and induced seismicity due to the hydraulic fracturing of rocks” He is shown here with his advisor, Prof. Herbert Einstein. Dr. Gonçalves da Silva already has a job lined…

Congratulations to our newest alumnus, Saleh Al Nasser, MSc.! Today he successfully defended his master’s thesis entitled “Comparison of Electric and Hydraulic Approaches to Fluid Flow Simulation and Hydraulic Parameters Inversion”. He is shown here with his advisor, Prof. F. Dale Morgan.