Collaborating with fellow peers is one of the best things about working at a university. As a student at Caltech, I have thoroughly enjoyed interacting with summer interns like Zhi Li, Jordan Bishop, Aaron Prunty and others. I would also like to hope that I had a positive impact on younger group members, and all those near me in the Caltech Seismolab. I helped organize weekly department seminars for one year, and co-managed the departmental geophysical data repository.


Since starting at ETH I have served in a more official capacity, as primary avisor for:

- Ali Shaikhsulaiman - Master's Thesis, August 2023. "Full-Waveform Ambient Noise Inversion in Istanbul Using DAS – Proof of Concept"

- Maria Blanch, Maria Valatsou, Zinan Lyu, and Ali Shaikhsulaiman - Summer Master's Projects on Shallow Noise Tomography as part of the "Seismology and Wave Physics Summer Academy"

- Lu Tian - Master's Thesis, August 2022. "Shallow Subsurface Characterisation of Suburban Athens Through Ambient Noise Tomography Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data"

- Matthias Häberlin - Master's Thesis, August 2020. "Development and Testing of a New Probabilistic Array Processing Scheme for Ambient Vibrations"

- Alexander Van Ballaer - Summer Project, 2019. "Optimal Seismic Array Design"

I also serve as an official Secondary Advisor and Committee Member for 3 current Ph.D. Students: Krystyna Smolinski, Jonas Igel, and Sara Klaasen.

As a Teaching Assistant at Caltech, I enjoyed helping run discussion sessions and labs for:

- 2017: Methods in Data Analysis. An intro to all things data with Prof Victor Tsai, starting with linear regression and leading up through Bayesian frameworks and MCMC explorations.

- 2016 and 2017 (2 years): Graduate level seismology, with Pablo Ampuero, Rob Clayton, Victor Tsai and Zongwhen Zhan.

- 2014 and 2015 (2 years): Field Geophysics, covering active seismology, magnetics, gravity, ground penetrating radar and GPS, including a multi-day campaign in the southern California desert. With Rob Clayton and Mark Simons.

For Caltech Letters, on my surface wave amplification research, and more generally on the intersection of science and engineering: Science, Engineering, and the Next Big Earthquake

For the EGU Geodynamics Blog, I helped colleague Maria Koroni write an article explaining how uncertain seismic tomography models are: On the resolution of seismic tomography models and the connection to geodynamic modelling (Is blue/red the new cold/hot?) (How many pixels in an Earth??)

An AGU/EOS research highlight on our work with the Long Beach array: Extracting New Meaning from Seismological Data

As an undergraduate at UCSD, I spent 4 years working as a wilderness guide for the Recreation Department. Aside from sharpening my own practical knowledge in wilderness medicine, navigation and safety practices, I got to share my love of the outdoors with new and experienced students alike. I helped run daylong trips and longer expeditions, including:

- Kayaking, including weeklong expeditions to Mexico, as a bonus freshman orientation option

- Backpacking, including weeklong trips in the Sierras, also as part of an orientation program

- Rock Climbing, both as a volunteer at the campus indoor gym and as a guide in Joshua Tree National Park

- Camping and Caving, in Anza Borrego State Park

- Training new guides. Every year we would recruite new students to the guide program with a 3-day backpacking trip, discussing group dynamics, leadership styles and other aspects of experiental learning theory. I got to meet and mentor more than 40 new students over the years.