Presenter

Elizabeth Madden was motivated to pursue a higher degree in geophysics following several years of work in the field of disaster relief and hazard mitigation. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 2013, where she studied the effects of complex fault geometry on earthquake mechanics with a focus on the 1992 Landers, California earthquake. During postdoctoral research at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, she developed the fault propagation code, GROW, based on energy minimization and linear elastic fracture mechanics. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the ASCETE Project at LMU Munich, Germany, studying the effects of subduction zone geology and geometry on megathrust earthquake dynamics, tsunami generation and hazard.