Team

Computational geoscientist at the University of Lausanne and a lecturer at the ETH Zurich. His research focuses on the development and application of high-performance and scalable software tools to further understand the localisation of flow and deformation in ice and porous rocks.

Boris Kaus (co-PI, JGU)

Professor of geodynamics and geophysics at the Institute of Geosciences, and at the Center for Computational Sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. His research focuses on the development and application of high-performance software tools to understand geological processes, with respect to crustal and lithospheric-scale deformation.

Paul Tackley (co-PI, ETHZ)

Professor of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics in the Institute of Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on the application of high-performance computing to model large-scale geodynamic problems related to mantle convection, plate tectonics, and the long-term evolution of Earth and planets.

William Moses (co-PI, UIUC)

Assistant professor in the Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research involves creating compilers that enable non-experts to leverage the latest in high-performance computing and ML. He is the lead developer of Enzyme, an automatic differentiation tool for LLVM capable of differentiating code in a variety of languages.

Ivan Utkin (co-PI, ETHZ)

Postdoc at the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) at ETH Zurich. His research interests lie in the mathematical modelling of coupled multi-physics processes, with applications in geophysical fluid mechanics. He utilises numerical methods and high-performance computing to enhance our understanding of large-scale geological flows, such as ice sheets and magmatic systems.

Stefan Schmalholz (co-PI, Unil)

Professor of Tectonics and Geodynamics at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Lausanne. His research focuses on the development and application of high-performance numerical algorithms to study coupled rock deformation processes across all geological scales. Ongoing research projects include the application of hydro-mechanical-chemical (HMC) models to investigate the hydration and dehydration of rocks during subduction and mountain building processes.

Thibault Duretz (co-PI, Goethe Uni)

Professor of Geodynamic Modelling at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. His research focuses on the application and the development of numerical simulations tools to study geological processes. He has recently studied the effects of frictional plasticity for strain localisation in the Earth’s lithosphere, amongst other. His current work involves the development of GPU-based numerical solution strategies and iterative solvers to tackle three-dimensional multi-physics geophysical problems.

Michael Schlottke-Lakemper (co-PI, UNA)

Professor of High-Performance Scientific Computing at the University of Augsburg. He focuses in his research on scalable methods for bulk- and interface-coupled multi-physics simulations, with an emphasis on adaptive numerical schemes for complex, large-scale problems. He developed a dynamic load balancing scheme to optimise the domain decomposition for coupled simulations on heterogeneous hardware. He is a principal developer of the Julia-based open-source simulation code Trixi.jl.

Hendrik Ranocha (co-PI, JGU)

Professor of Numerical Mathematics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. His research focuses on the development of robust and efficient numerical methods for fluid flows with applications in science and engineering. He is interested in developing structure-preserving numerical methods that run efficiently on modern hardware. He advances modern research software engineering, in particular in the Julia programming language, to create easily usable software for high-performance computing. He is one of the core developers of the Julia package Trixi.jl.

Postdoc (Unil)

TBA.

Albert De Montserrat (ETHZ)

Postdoctoral researcher in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Group in the Institute of Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich.

Sam Omlin (CSCS)

Computational scientist at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, CSCS, part of ETH Zurich.

External collaborators

Mauro Werder (WSL - ETHZ)

Senior researcher at the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) at ETH Zurich and WSL Sion. Glaciologist working on modelling and measuring glacier hydraulics. Interests in scientific computing and strolling around on glaciers.

Yuri Podladchikov (Unil)

Professor of physics of geological processes at the Institute of Earth sciences, University of Lausanne.