About

I am a PhD researcher in geophysics at the Colorado School of Mines. My work sits at the intersection of seismic imaging, high-pressure materials physics, and emerging computational methods — including quantum computing — applied to inverse problems in Earth science.

Research

Full-waveform inversion and quantum-assisted seismic imaging. I develop and benchmark inversion workflows for subsurface imaging, with a focus on reformulating parts of the optimization on quantum annealers (D-Wave Advantage) to study where quantum hardware can complement classical solvers.

Molecular-dynamics simulation of silicate systems under compression. Using large-scale MD simulations, I study structural transitions in SiO₂, MgSiO₃, and related glasses up to ~100 GPa — relevant to the deep mantle. The work combines ring statistics, Voronoi analysis, and DBSCAN-based pore characterization.

Ambient noise tomography. I have used cross-correlation of ambient seismic noise to recover Green’s functions and image crustal and upper-mantle structure (e.g. the Banda Arc region).

Contact

The fastest way to reach me is by email — see the sidebar.