Samuel Chen will join the GEOFORCE group in Fall 2026/2027 as a PhD student in the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics program at NU. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and is the recipient of the prestigious Cabell Fellowship at Northwestern. We are excited to welcome him to the group and look forward to working with him.

Congratulations to Anubhav, who will join the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur as an Assistant Professor starting July 1, 2026! Anubhav joined our group as postdoctoral researcher in January 2026. While we are a bit sad to see him leave soon, we are happy for him and his career. In the meantime, we are excited to continue our work together on GPU-accelerated 3D modeling of sequences of earthquakes and aseismic slip.

Huge congratulations to Ari for passing his qualifying exam! He's now officially a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at NU. This is an important milestone in the PhD journey, and we look forward to seeing the exciting research ahead. Bravo!

With the project entitled " Mechanics of supershear earthquakes: theory and modeling across scales ", Federico secured a prestigious National Science Foundation Standard grant (award number #2524910 - award date: 08/06/2025 - award period of performance: 09/01/2025--08/31/2028). The project will develop new theoretical and computational approaches to investigate supershear earthquakes—ruptures that propagate faster than the shear-wave speed and can generate particularly inte