People
We are expeditionary scientists, laboratory experimentalists, geotechnical engineers, computational geoscientists, students, and program managers.
Our Team
![Peter Flemings](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/10/Peter-Flemings-840x560.jpg)
Peter Flemings
Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
Research Professor, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial Chair in Mineral Resources
![Demian Saffer](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/10/Demian-Saffer-840x559.jpg)
Demian Saffer
Director, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
Scott Petty Jr. Endowed Chair for the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
![Athmabhandari 20120215](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/10/AthmaBhandari_20120215.jpeg)
![Maria Nikolinakou](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/10/Maria-Nikolinakou-480x600.jpg)
![Alejandro Cardona](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/11/Alejandro-Cardona-copy-480x600.jpg)
![Alexey Portnov](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/10/AlexeyPortnov-crop-edit-480x600.jpg)
![Mahdi Heidari](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/10/Mahdi-Heidari-480x600.jpg)
![Carla Thomas](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/11/Carla-Thomas.jpeg)
![Portrait of Kehua You](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/11/IMG_5565-480x600.jpg)
Postdoctoral Fellows
![Tanner Mills (orginal)](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2023/04/Tanner-Mills-orginal-452x600.jpg)
Current Students
![Graciela Lopez Campos](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/11/Graciela-Lopez-Campos-486x600.jpg)
Graciela Lopez Campos
Interests: subduction megathrust modeling, large-strain evolution of subduction systems, discrete faults, porous fluid flow along faults.
![Josh Edgington](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/11/josh-edgington-400x600.jpg)
Josh Edgington
Interests: hydrogeophysics, slow-slip earthquakes, hydrogeologic & hydrologic responses to earthquakes, machine learning & big data
![Photo of Nicole Ferrie wearing University if Washington graduation gowns.](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2023/08/Nicole-Ferrie-749x600.jpeg)
Nicole Ferrie
Interests: subduction zone fluids, paleoclimatology, boron geochemistry, chemical modeling
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![Landon Diamondback Wolfcamp](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/11/Landon-Diamondback-Wolfcamp-450x600.png)
![Peter Miller](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/11/Peter-Miller-e1667939620212-452x600.jpeg)
Peter Miller
Interests: subduction zones, earthquake mechanics, fluid flow, mechanical behavior of sediments, faulting
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![Zach Murphy](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/11/Zach-Murphy-480x600.jpg)
Zachary Murphy
Interests: methane hydrates, carbon sequestration, fluid flow, permeability, petrophysics
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![Addison Savage](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/11/AddisonSavage.jpeg)
Addison Savage
addisonsavage@austin.utexas.edu
Interests: methanogenesis, carbon cycle, methane hydrates
![Kaitlin Schaible](https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/geomechanics-geofluids/files/2022/10/Kaitlin-Schaible-673x600.jpeg)
Kaitlin Schaible
Interests: subduction zones, rock mechanics, boreholes, geophysics