I am currently a post-doctoral research fellow at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University , working with the Center for Non-Linear Earth Systems. I am interested in grain-scale chemical and physical processes that occur in rocks, and their role and interaction with large scale geological processes (i.e. micro-macro interactions and complex systems). I do mostly theoretical and numerical analysis, but also experiments.

I did my PhD thesis in MIT, where I studied basic aspects of reactive solid-fluid systems, and applied my studies to both low and high temperature systems: diagenesis and evolving flow of pore-fluids in crustal rocks, and processes of melting and melt extraction from the mantle. Recently I have also begun to look at stress induced deformation: pressure solution and the physics of granular media. I am now concentrating on numerically simulating landslides and fault gouge, it's evolution and properties. I am also doing lab experiments on sand-slides, trying to better understand large scale landslides.