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STUDENT SUPERVISED  

                                             

Postdoctoral Researchers:

 

1/2020-

Dr. Yi-Hsuan Wu: Using Arrayed broadband waveforms to study earthquake physics. Now a postdoc at IES

8/2017-8/2018

Dr. Rattanaporn Fongngern: 3D seismic stratigraphy of Formosa Ridge on northern China Sea. Now an Assistant Professor at Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

3/2016-7/2017

Dr. Rocio Bernal-Olaya: 3D crustal kinematic modeling and finite strain analysis of the Four-Way Closure Ridge along the Manila Trench. Now an Assistant Professor at Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia.

 

PhD Students:

1/2019

Freya Chen (Atmospheric Sciences, NTU), B.S. thesis: Seismically derived ground tilts induced by an approaching tsunami, now a PhD student at University of Chicago.

1/2018

Sebastian Wege PhD dissertation topic: Marine geology and geophysics of Taiwan Strait (NTOU). Now a senior project manager at a major marine geotechnical company in Germany.

9/2016

Pascal Knuth PhD dissertation topic: Fluid migration patterns offshore southern Taiwan. Institute of Oceanography, NTU, Graduated 2021. Now working as a research scientist at GEOMAR, Germany.

9/2015

Kim Yang PhD dissertation topic: Environmental Seismology. Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP), Academia Sinica. Graduated in 2022. Now a postdoc in University of Michigan.

9/2015    

Tahira Ashruf (TIGP Summer Student) now a Ph.D. student at University of Bologna, Italy 

9/2014- Co-supervisor of two PhD students (Timo Zander and Kuan-Ting Lin) at GEOMAR, Germany

9/2014-

Kai-Wen Chang PhD dissertation topic: Finite fault inversions of earthquakes in Taiwan. Institute of Geosciences, NTU. Graduated in 2022. Now teaching in Pingtung. 

6/2014

Liwen Chen PhD dissertation: Geological Processes Related to Seafloor Thermal Structures Offshore SW Taiwan, NTU. Now an Associate Research Fellow at Taiwan’s Academy of Ocean Research

6/2014

Jing-Kang Chua M.S. thesis: T-wave Excited by 60 Mw>3.3 Earthquakes in Taiwan Region during 2006-2007: Implications of their Ray Paths, Amplitudes, and Conversion Efficiency, NTU. Now work as a software engineer in Taiwan

9/2014

Sourav Kumar Sahoo (TIGP Summer Student) just finished a Ph.D. at Southampton University of UK and is a research scientist there

9/2013

Ankit Aggarwal (TIGP Summer Student)  a post-grad student at TU Delft, Netherlands before getting a research position in Netherland.

9/2011

Wei-Chung Han dissertation topic: Seismic study on the gas hydrate systems in the South China Sea Continental slope offshore SW Taiwan. NTU, Graduated 2017.  Now an Assistant Professor at National Cheng-Kung University.

1/2011

Kai-Wen Chang M.S. thesis: Techniques and Results of Moment Tensor Inversions using Strong Motion Waveforms of Taiwan TSMIP data, 1993-2009, NTU. 

3/2008-

Rui-Hsien Wang (Mechanical Eng., National Taiwan University) B.S. thesis:  Seafloor compliance offshore Taiwan, got his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2019. Now a researcher at Adobe Lab in Seattle.

3/2008-

Amy Liou (Mechanical Eng., National Taiwan University) B.S. thesis:  Topographic correction of crustal heat flows in Taiwan region, now a software engineer and a dancer.

5/2007-

Wan-Jou Chen (National Taiwan University) B.S., post-bachelor thesis: Western Pacific ground motions induced by Typhoons, now a project manager at a consultant firm in Taiwan.

5/2007- Wenhon Wei (National Central University) M.S. thesis:

using broadband waveforms to study earthquake sources (Now a high school teacher)

2011  

Student (Kaiwan Chang) awarded the best student poster in seismology at AGU

9/2006

Yi-Rong Yang (National Taiwan University) Ph.D. student (for one-year) 

7-9/2006

Kaiwen Chang (National Taiwan Normal University, Won Top 3 prize for the IES,AS Summer student program).  Now a Ph.D. student at National Taiwan University.

7-9/2006

Peichi Peggy Lai (National Chung-Cheng University, IES, AS Summer student program).

 

7-9/2006

Mingche Hsieh (National Central University, IES, AS Summer student program) received Ph.D. at National Central University, now a research scientist at SinoTech

1-2/2006

6 undergraduate students from National Taiwan University and National Normal University

Institute of Earth Sciences,

Academia Sinica

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