Biography
Filippos Vallianatos is a Professor of physics from Geophysics-Solid Earth Physics, Technology Educational Institute of CRETE, School of Natural Resources & Environment, Department of Geoenvironment, Laboratory of Geophysics & Seismology & Senior Research Fellow in Geophysics. He received his degree in Physics. With Honours, from University of Athens, Physics Department from 1981-1985. He has done his PhD in Geophysics-Solid Earth Physics (University of Athens, Physics Department). The title of his PhD thesis is: Magnetotelluric investigation of the electrical conductivity in the areas of Thiva and Ioannina (Greece).1985-1989. He has done his Postdoctoral research at Department of Solid Earth Physics, University of Uppsala from 1989-1990. He collaborated with the Dept. of Seismology of the University of Uppsala for the installation of seismological and magnetotelluric stations at various sites in Greece (1986).
Research Interest
Telluric & electromagnetic earthquake precursors, Electromagnetic wane propagation in geostructures with stochastic or fractal properties, Conductivity structure of the Earth using Electromagnetic waves, Thermodynamics of the Earth Interior, Seismic Hazard and Environmental Seismology, Non linear dynamics in seismology and geophysics, Environmental Geophysics and GeoHazards.
Biography
Bill X Hu is the Professor of the department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science at Florida State University. He is also the Adjunct Faculty Member of the Department of Geosciences at Nanjing University He has done his Ph.D. from Purdue University in the year of 1996. He has more than 45 publications in many Journals.
Research Interest
Developing geostatistical and stochastic methods to simulate groundwater flow and solute transport in heterogeneous media, and applying these methods in environmental projects, such as the DOE Yucca Mountain Project, Developing stochastic inverse methods to calibrate statistical distributions of conductivity and chemical sorption coefficient in heterogeneous media through pumping and tacer test data, Developing new modeling approach for groundwater flow and solute tranpsort in Karst aquifers, Field and laboratory study of conductivity and chemical sorption coefficient distribution
Biography
Lijun Liu, Assistant professor, Department of Geology, University of Illinois, USA. He completed his Ph.D. Geophysics, California Institute of Technology, USA. He has got John Miles Postdoctoral Fellowship (IGPP/UCSD) 2010-2012. Other awards and fellowships include: Outstanding Student Paper Award (AGU)2009, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Student Abroad 2008, Benioff-Moore Fellowship (Caltech) 2005-2009, EPS Department Fellowship (JHU) 2003-2004, Outstanding Leadership for student affairs (USTC) 2001 and many more. He was the Associate editor for scientific journal: Geochem., Geophy., Geosys.(2011-2013), Referee for professional journals: like Nature Geosci., PNAS, EPSL, Geology, JGR, G-Cubed, GRL, GJI, GSAB, etc and Co-convener of two sessions at AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, USA. He has published more than 20 research publication in various international repute journals.
Research Interest
Adjoint geodynamic modeling with data assimilation, Reconstructing subduction backward in time based on tomography, Mechanisms for vertical motions of N. American continent, Driving forces of the orogeny and extension, High-resolution forward subduction modeling, Nature of mantle structures and seismic anisotropy, Formation of continental volcanism and flood basalts, Constraining mantle velocity structure with multi-bouncing ScS waves, Modeling geomagnetic dipole moment collapse