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Current Members: Centre
for Planetary Habitability (PHAB)
Former Members: PHAB @ The University of Oslo
(2023 - now)
- Yijun Wang, PhD with the ANIMA project (2021-2025)
PhD Thesis (2025): Texture
evolution in subduction models influenced by anisotropic
viscosity: Simple tests, cluster analysis, and numerical
implementation
- Søren Tvingsholm, MS Student (2023-2025)
MS Thesis (2025): Lower mantle controls on locations and frequencies of plume generation
[data archive]
- Zhirui
Ray Wang, visiting PhD student from the University of Copenhagen
(2024). Currently a PhD Student at LMU Munich.
Former Members:
CEED @ The University of Oslo
(2016 - 2023)
- Maaike Francine Maria Weerdesteijn, PhD Student (2019-2023)
Now a postdoc at the University Centre in Svalbard.
PhD Thesis (2023): Solid earth
deformation due to glacial mass changes above low-viscosity upper
mantle: Model development, importance of contemporary ice melt, and
an application to southeast Greenland
[Disputation]
[PhD Thesis]
- Florence Ramirez, PhD Student (2019-2022)
Also a researcher with the 4D Dynamic Earth project (2023-2025).
PhD Thesis (2022): Improving upper
mantle viscosity estimates: Constraints from seismic and
magnetotelluric data, and impacts on asthenospheric flow
[Disputation]
[PhD Thesis]
- Helene Wang, MS Student (2021-2022)
Now a Geophysicist with TGS.
MS Thesis (2022): Hydrous regions of
the mantle transition zone affect patterns of intraplate
volcanism
[MS Thesis]
- Krister Stræte Karlsen, PhD Student (2017-2021)
Now an analyst with Protector Forsikring.
PhD Thesis (2021): Plate Tectonic Controls on Geodynamic Processes: Earth's Deep Water Cycle, Sea Level Change and Planetary Cooling Patterns
[Disputation]
[PhD Thesis]
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Ágnes Kiraly, Postdoctoral Scholar (2017-2020)
Also PI of both the ANIMA project (RCN, 2021-2025) and the DYNAMICE project (ERC, 2025-2030)
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Björn
Holger Heyn, PhD Student (2016-2020) and Postdoc (2020-2021)
Also a research scientist with both the 3D Earth Greenland project (2020-2021) and the POLARIS project (2021-2025).
PhD Thesis (2020): Geodynamics of Earth's
Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces: Interaction with mantle flow,
plume initiation, and core-mantle boundary deformation
[Disputation]
[PhD Thesis]
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Fabio Crameri, Postdoc (2016-2019) and Research Scientist (2019-2021)
Now a geoscientist and graphic designer with Undertone Design.
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Petra Hatalova, MS Student (2018-2019)
MS Thesis (2019): Guiding of tectonic plate motions by transform faults and mid-ocean ridges
[MS Thesis]
[data archive]
Now a Postdocoral Fellow with PHAB.
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Robert Hartmann, visiting MS Student (2018) from GEOMAR (Kiel, Germany)
Completed a PhD in the physics of fluids at the University of Twente.
MS Thesis at GEOMAR (2019): Impact of Antarctic deglaciation on Earth deformation and sea level change: An assessment of modeling lateral viscosity variations with multiple 1D Earth rheology structures
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Alysse Bebin, Visiting MS Student (2017) from ENSTA Bretagne, France
MS Thesis at ENSTA (2017): Characterizing the rate of lithospheric mass loss due to gravitational instability
Former Members:
University of Hawaii (2008 - 2016)
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C. Evan Watkins, Masters Student (2014-2016)
Completed a PhD at Rutgers University.
MS Thesis (2016): Constraints on dynamic topography from asymmetric subsidence across the mid-ocean ridges
[MS Thesis]
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Emeline Veit, Visiting MS Student (2017) from ENSTA Bretagne, France
Now an engineer with IFREMER.
MS Thesis at ENSTA (2015): The impact of groundwater depletion on spatial variations in sea level change during the past century
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Harrison Togia, MS Student (2012-2015)
Now a PhD student in
Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Univ. of Hawaii.
MS Thesis (2015): New constraints on temporal variations in Hawaiian Plume buoyancy flux
[MS Thesis]
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Joost van Summeren, Postdoctoral Scholar (2009-2013)
Now a scientific researcher with KWR Water Research Institute.
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Maxim Ballmer Postdoctoral Scholar (August 2011 - July 2012)
Now an associate professor at University College London.
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Svetlana Natarov, MS Student (2009-2011)
MS Thesis (2011): Constraining Poiseuille flow in the asthenosphere using depth-dependence of azimuthal anisotropy
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Julia Fiedler, Undergraduate Researcher (2009-2010)
Now a project scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Undergraduate Thesis (2010): Spatial variability of sea level rise due to water impoundment behind dams
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Todd Bianco, Postdoctoral Scholar (2009-2010)
Now an economic and policy analyst at the Rhode Island Utilities Commission.
Former Members: Johns
Hopkins University (2005 - 2008)
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Laurent Metivier, Blaustein Postdoctoral Scholar (2007-2008)
Now a research scientist at the Institut Geographique National and the
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (both in Paris, France)
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Benjun Wu, PhD Student (2006-2008)
Now a professor at Nanjing University.
PhD Thesis (2011), Chapter 3: The Strength of Lithospheric Slabs Constrained by Plate Motions
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Christopher Hayes, MS Student (2006-2008)
MS Thesis (2008): Tectonic Constrols on Megathrust Seismicity: Neutral Upper Plate Strain Promotes Great Earthquakes
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Stephen Steiner, MS Student (2005-2006)
MS Thesis (2006): Influence of Active Mantle Upwelling for Driving Plate Motions
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