Welcome Prof. Amanda Thomas
Amanda Thomas is an Associate Professor at the University of Oregon, USA and has been invited as a visiting professor by the Department of Earth Sciences for four months as the recipient of the inaugural Katharina von Salis Visiting Faculty Fellowship.
“My goal/focus while I'm here at ETH is to work on deep, slow earthquakes – which are similar to fast earthquakes but just occur over much longer timescales.
I'm a seismologist but my host, Whitney Behr, is a field geologist who also studies slow earthquake processes that are codified in the rock record.
The hope was that by working together on the same problem, but from different disciplinary perspectives, we may be able to gain new insight into the physical mechanisms responsible for slow slip.”
About Amanda M. Thomas
Research profile
Small earthquake science, slow earthquakes, earthquake seismology, fault mechanics and rheology, data science and machine learning, strong ground motion, active tectonics, numerical analysis and modelling of geophysical data, planetary geophysics
Research appointments and education
- Associate Professor, University of Oregon, since September 2019
- Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, August 2015–August 2019
- National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, 2013–2015
- Ph.D. Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley, December 2012