Our Team

The C-CIES Team is composed of a diverse group of individuals from a range of backgrounds and expertise that include seismology, engineering, sociology, disaster response, history, neotectonics, and collective impact. Read more about our team below.

Aaron Velasco

Principal Investigator

Specialty: Earthquake Science

Jeffrey Weidner

Co-Principal Investigator

Specialty: Structural Engineering

Marianne Karplus

Co-Principal Investigator

Specialty: Controlled source and passive earthquake seismology, seismotectonics

Susan Bilek

Specialty: Earthquake Seismology, seismic signals generated by shallow environmental forces

Mike Brudzinski

Specialty: Earthquake seismology, seismotectonics, dynamic earthquake triggering, induced seismicity

Divya Chandrasekhar

Specialty: Regional planning, community recovery from disasters

John Ebel

Specialty: Seismology, seismotectonics of eastern North America

Tiegan Hobbs

Specialty: Seismology, earthquakes, secondary hazards, seismic risk

Jose Hurtado

Specialty: Neotectonics, planetary science

Steven Jaume

Specialty: Seismology

Eric Jones

Specialty: Anthropology focused on natural disasters

Alan Kafka

Specialty: Seismology, geophysics, earthquake science, science education, community science for the greater good

Vladik Kreinovich

Specialty: Computer Science

Yolanda Lin

Specialty: Low-probability, high-impact, data sparse events at the intersection of natural hazards, built environment, and society

Anne-Marie Nunez

Specialty: Building capacity for culturally affirming research and practice in Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Kris Pankow

Specialty: Seismology, seismic network monitoring

Conevery Bolton Valencius

Specialty: History of earthquake Science and community investigations of earthquakes. History of energy systems and induced earthquakes.

Elizabeth Vanacore

Specialty: Seismology, network operations

Monica Alvillar

C-CIES Director

Zhigang Peng

Specialty: Earthquakes, seismology, machine learning, educational seismology

William Robertson

Specialty: Design and implementation of programming for STEM education

Alexandros Savvaidis

Specialty: Seismology, seismic network monitoring, source characteristics, site amplification, Vs30

Iris Tien

Specialty: Civil Engineering, sensing and data analytics, stochastic processes, probabilistic risk assessment, and decision making under uncertainty

Where you can find us!

The C-CIES Team and projects sites are located in various cities. We hope to add more soon!

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