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Federico Ciardo, PhD

Tenure-track Assistant Professor & Principal Investigator

I'm a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University. Before joining NU, I completed my postdoctoral  research studies in Switzerland and in the USA - first at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich, and then at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. I earned my Ph.D. in Mechanics from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. 

General interests: traveling, skiing, running, playing soccer and footvolley. 

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Navid Kheirdast, PhD

Post-doc (as of April 1, 2025)

Academic background: I earned a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University (PWUT School of Engineering) in Tehran, followed by an M.Sc. in Structural Engineering from the University of Tehran, Faculty of Engineering. I hold a Ph.D. in Seismology from the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES), Tehran, Iran. Subsequently, I continued my research at the Laboratoire de Géologie of École Normale Supérieure in Paris. My research interests include fully dynamic simulations of the seismic cycle, studying fault instability and fault zone heterogeneity, bridging numerical simulations with inferences from inverse simulations, and incorporating these findings into seismic hazard evaluation.

General interests: Hiking, running, Iranian music, playing setar (Persian traditional stringed instrument), and cooking Iranian recipes. 

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Aryeh Silver

Graduate student

Academic background: B.A. in Physics from Northwestern University. 
General interests: I like to buy and sell second-hand clothing, play guitar, and run.

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Interested in joining
GEOFORCE Group?

We are always looking for highly skilled and motivated new collaborators to join our group.

Prospective graduate students are invited to enroll for CEE graduate program at NU (Geotechnics and Geotechnical Engineering) - see for more details: https://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/admission/ 

 

If you are interested in joining our group as a postdoctoral researcher, please email

federico.ciardo@northwestern.edu

with your Curriculum Vitae, a statement explaining why you want to join our group, names and contact information of at least 2 references, and a journal article that best represents your research.  

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