I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Geoscience Department at Penn State. I completed my Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in Spring 2020 and was a Crosby Postdoc Fellow at MIT from 2020-2022.

My research focuses on four major themes:  (A) Volcano Science (Modeling magmatic processes and Submarine volcanism), (B)  Planetary geophysics (Planet formation and geodynamics, Planetary science), and  (C) Volcano/tectonic-climate interactions (Understanding the impact of solid Earth process on the ocean-atmosphere system across a range of timescales - months to Myr), and (D) Geofluids & Geomechanics (Understanding rock rheology and fluid-rock reactions on a micro-scale and developing thermodynamically consistent upscaled models; using seismic information in the lab & field to investigate processes in real-time for detailed process understanding). 

In addition, I have a few active projects focused on utilizing my Earth science knowledge for various applications related to energy transition - geothermal energy (especially enhanced geothermal systems at high temperatures), critical mineral discovery (Li, REE, Copper), geologic carbon sequestration (enhanced rock weathering, basalt carbon sequestration), and hydrogen production (reactive transport). 

Based on interaction with industry partners, my group is developing new geophysical and geochemical characterization methods (and associated data processing tools) - e.g., hyperspectral imaging, acoustics, and LIDAR that can be applied at scale, both in terms of the number of samples as well as the spatial coverage, cost-effectively and rapidly in field settings.

I use three complementary approaches to investigate these processes: developing idealized models, developing analog lab experiments/working with focused lab datasets, and analyzing large existing observational datasets.