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Jean-Philippe Avouac
French geologist and seismologist in the United Statesborn 1963
Supervised 17 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology between 2008 and 2026; Wikidata names Paul E. Tapponnier as doctoral advisor and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.
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Students17
- cited by a thesis record
Hussain Alqattan“Quantifying Surface Processes Using Remote Sensing: Accretion in River Deltas and Migration of Barchan Dunes”
2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ojashvi Rautela“Thermo-Mechanical Properties of Earth’s Crust and Mantle: From Surface Deformation to Lower Mantle Structures in the Present Day and the Geological Past”
2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Taeho Kim“Modeling Frictional Processes in the Presence of Fluids: From Earthquakes in the Laboratory to Induced Seismicity in Geothermal Reservoirs”
2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Krittanon Sirorattanakul“Response of Earthquakes to Transient Stresses, in Laboratory and Nature”
2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Stacy Larochelle“Mechanical Interactions Between Water and the Solid Earth: from Quasi-Static Geodetic Deformation to Dynamic Fault Slip”
2022 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kevin Patrick Roback“Investigating Sand Transport and Landslides, and Implications for Past and Present Environments on Mars and Earth”
2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
John Christopher Rollins“Using Heterogeneous 3D Earth Models to Constrain Interseismic and Postseismic Deformation in Southern California and Nepal”
2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Luca Claude Malatesta“Impact of Climate and Tectonics on the Morphodynamics of Alluvial Piedmonts, Implications for Sediment Transfer and the Stratigraphic Record”
2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Victoria Louise Stevens“Reconciling Geodetic Strain and Seismicity Rate with Frequency-Magnitude Relation of the Largest Earthquakes”
2016 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Marion Y. Thomas“Frictional Properties of Fault: From Observations on the Longitudinal Valley Fault, Taiwan, to Dynamic Simulations”
2014 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Thomas Joachim Ader“Earthquakes of the Nepal Himalaya : Towards a Physical Model of the Seismic Cycle”
2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yunung Nina Lin“Using Space Geodesy to Constrain Variations in Seismogenic Behavior on Subduction Megathrusts”
2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Belle Philibosian“Characterization of Diverse Megathrust Fault Behavior Related to Seismic Supercycles, Mentawai Islands, Sumatra”
2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Steven Brooks Kidder“Microstructural, Metamorphic and Experimental Constraints on Differential Stress and Temperature in the Middle Crust”
2012 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ali Ozgun Konca“Investigating Large Earthquake Rupture Kinematics from the Joint Analysis of Seismological, Geodetic and Remote Sensing Data”
2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Sebastien Leprince“Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics with Optical Imagery”
2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
Advisors on Wikidata1
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Students on Wikidata9
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- stated by Wikidataborn 1967
- stated by Wikidataborn 1973
- stated by Wikidataborn 1979
- stated by Wikidataborn 1980
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The line above and below2 steps
The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.
- 1 step up
stated by WikidataPaul E. Tapponnier
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataMaurice Mattauer
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 28 people: 17 cited by thesis records, 11 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career3
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- 1984 to 1987studied
- 1987 to 1991
- from 2003
Sat beside the lineage65
committee member or referee, not advisor
- cited by a thesis record
Hussain Alqattan“Quantifying Surface Processes Using Remote Sensing: Accretion in River Deltas and Migration of Barchan Dunes”
committee member · 2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ojashvi Rautela“Thermo-Mechanical Properties of Earth’s Crust and Mantle: From Surface Deformation to Lower Mantle Structures in the Present Day and the Geological Past”
committee member · 2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
John Dylan Wilding“Seismological Investigations of the Dynamics of Volcanotectonic Interactions”
committee member · 2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Malte Jörn Ziebarth“Long-term seismicity modeling in energy space”
referee · 2025 · Universität Potsdam · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Taeho Kim“Modeling Frictional Processes in the Presence of Fluids: From Earthquakes in the Laboratory to Induced Seismicity in Geothermal Reservoirs”
committee member · 2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Tobias Köhne“From Daily Deformation to Millennial Mechanics: Insights from Subduction Zone Earthquake Cycle Models”
committee member · 2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Freya Kurt Morris“Depositional and Structural History of the Pavian and Kudu Nappes in the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Krittanon Sirorattanakul“Response of Earthquakes to Transient Stresses, in Laboratory and Nature”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Peyman Ayoubi“Modeling and Parameterization of Basin Effects for Engineering Design Applications”
committee member · 2022 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Stacy Larochelle“Mechanical Interactions Between Water and the Solid Earth: from Quasi-Static Geodetic Deformation to Dynamic Fault Slip”
committee member · 2022 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kavya Sudhir“Slip Patterns on Heterogeneous Frictional Interfaces”
committee member · 2022 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Valère Régis Westbrooke Lambert“Constraining Earthquake Source Processes Through Physics-Based Modeling”
committee member · 2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kevin Patrick Roback“Investigating Sand Transport and Landslides, and Implications for Past and Present Environments on Mars and Earth”
committee member · 2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Leah Sabbeth“Provenance, Structural Geology, and Sedimentation of the Miocene and Pliocene Californias”
committee member · 2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Austin John Chadwick“Mechanics of River Avulsions on Lowland River Deltas”
committee member · 2020 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kangchen Bai“Dynamic Earthquake Source Modeling and the Study of Slab Effects”
committee member · 2019 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jin Yang“Fast Adaptive Augmented Lagrangian Digital Image Correlation”
committee member · 2019 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Peter Benjamin Buhler“Measuring and Modeling the Interplay between Planetary Orbits, Interiors, Surfaces, and Atmospheres”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yingdi Luo“Earthquake Moment-Area Scaling Relations and the Effect of Fault Heterogeneity on Slow to Fast Earthquake Slip”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Stephen Michael Perry“Analyzing Stress Change and Energy Budget of Earthquakes Through Physics-Based Modeling”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
John Christopher Rollins“Using Heterogeneous 3D Earth Models to Constrain Interseismic and Postseismic Deformation in Southern California and Nepal”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Natalie Sarah Ann Schaal“Modeling of Nucleation and Dynamic Rupture on Heterogeneous Frictional Interfaces with Applications to Foreshocks”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Asaf Inbal“Seismogeodetic Imaging of Active Crustal Faulting”
committee member · 2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Semechah Ka Yan Lui“Earthquake Source Characterization Through Seismic Observations and Numerical Modeling”
committee member · 2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Luca Claude Malatesta“Impact of Climate and Tectonics on the Morphodynamics of Alluvial Piedmonts, Implications for Sediment Transfer and the Stratigraphic Record”
committee member · 2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Junle Jiang“Probabilistic Imaging and Dynamic Modeling of Earthquake Source Processes”
committee member · 2016 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jeffrey Paul Prancevic“Sediment Mobility in Steep Channels and the Transition to Landsliding”
committee member · 2016 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Joel Simon Scheingross“Mechanics of Sediment Transport and Bedrock Erosion in Steep Landscapes”
committee member · 2016 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Francis Joseph Sousa“Tectonics of Central and Eastern California, Late Cretaceous to Modern”
committee member · 2016 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Victoria Louise Stevens“Reconciling Geodetic Strain and Seismicity Rate with Frequency-Magnitude Relation of the Largest Earthquakes”
committee member · 2016 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Erika McGoldrick Swanson“Structural and Clumped-Isotope Constraints on the Mechanisms of Displacement Along Low-Angle Detachments”
committee member · 2015 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Marion Y. Thomas“Frictional Properties of Fault: From Observations on the Longitudinal Valley Fault, Taiwan, to Dynamic Simulations”
committee member · 2014 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Thomas Joachim Ader“Earthquakes of the Nepal Himalaya : Towards a Physical Model of the Seismic Cycle”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yunung Nina Lin“Using Space Geodesy to Constrain Variations in Seismogenic Behavior on Subduction Megathrusts”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Lingsen Meng“Navigating Earthquake Physics with High-Resolution Array Back-Projection”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Francisco Hernan Ortega Culaciati“Aseismic Deformation in Subduction Megathrusts: Central Andes and North-East Japan”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Belle Philibosian“Characterization of Diverse Megathrust Fault Behavior Related to Seismic Supercycles, Mentawai Islands, Sumatra”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kristin Eileen Phillips-Alonge“Structure of the Subduction System in Southern Peru from Seismic Array Data”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Steven Michael Skinner“Plate Tectonic Constraints on Flat Subduction and Paleomagnetic Constraints on Rifting”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Surendra Nadh Somala“Source Imaging with Dense Sensor Networks: Inversions Based on Adjoint Methods”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Laura Alisic“Multi-Scale Dynamics and Rheology of Mantle Convection with Plates”
committee member · 2012 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ting Chen“Part I: Structure of Central and Southern Mexico from Velocity and Attenuation Tomography. Part II: Physics of Small Repeating Earthquakes”
committee member · 2012 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Steven Brooks Kidder“Microstructural, Metamorphic and Experimental Constraints on Differential Stress and Temperature in the Middle Crust”
committee member · 2012 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
William Henry Amidon“Cosmogenic ³He and ²¹Ne Dating in Accessory Mineral Phases”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Christopher John DiCaprio“Measuring and Modeling Viscoelastic Relaxation of the Lithosphere with Application to the Northern Volcanic Zone, Iceland”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ravi V. S. Kanda“Mechanical Models for InterSeismic Deformation in Subduction Zones”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Aron Jeffrey Meltzner“Earthquake Recurrence, Clustering, and Persistent Segmentation near the Southern End of the 2004 Sunda Megathrust Rupture”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Eun-seo Choi“Computational Approaches to Localized Deformation Within the Lithosphere and for Crust-Mantle Interactions”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Nathan John Downey“Tectonic History of the Osbourn Spreading Center and Dynamic Subsidence of the Congo Basin”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yoshihiro Kaneko“Investigations of Earthquake Source Processes Based on Fault Models with Variable Friction Rheology”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kevin Wayne Lewis“The Rock Record of Mars: Structure, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yi Liu“Three-Dimensional Elastodynamic Modeling of Frictional Sliding with Application to Intersonic Transition”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Xiao Lu“Combined Experimental and Numerical Study of Spontaneous Dynamic Rupture on Frictional Interfaces”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Charles Steven Verdel“I. Cenozoic Geology of Iran: An Integrated Study of Extensional Tectonics and Related Vulcanism. II. Ediacaran Stratigraphy of the North American Cordillera: New Observations from Eastern California and Northern Utah”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Min Chen“Numerical Simulations of Seismic Wave Propagation in Anisotropic and Heterogeneous Earth Models: The Japan Subduction Zone”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ali Ozgun Konca“Investigating Large Earthquake Rupture Kinematics from the Joint Analysis of Seismological, Geodetic and Remote Sensing Data”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Sebastien Leprince“Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics with Optical Imagery”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Elisabeth Sophia Nadin“Structure and History of the Kern Canyon Fault System, Southern Sierra Nevada, California”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Zhimei Yan“Regional Mapping of the Crustal Structure in Southern California”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
J. Bruce Hao-Te Hsu Shyu“A Neotectonic Model of Taiwan, with a Focus on the Longitudinal Valley Suture”
committee member · 2006 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Deborah Elaine Smith“A New Paradigm for Interpreting Stress Inversions from Focal Mechanisms: How 3D Stress Heterogeneity Biases the Inversions Toward the Stress Rate”
committee member · 2006 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jane Ellen Dmochowski“Application of MODIS-ASTER (Master) Simulator Data to Geological Mapping of Young Volcanic Regions in Baja California, Mexico”
committee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Rowena Benfer Lohman“The Inversion of Geodetic Data for Earthquake Parameters”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Patricia Persaud“Images of Early Continental Breakup in and around the Gulf of California and the Role of Basal Shear in Producing Wide Plate Boundaries”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral