Faculty and Staff:
Hiroki Sone
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
hsone
Phone: (608) 890-0531
Hiroki Sone leads the rock mechanics group at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He is a faculty member in the Geological Engineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. He is also an affiliated faculty in the Department of Geoscience. He holds a PhD (2012) in Geophysics from Stanford University. He also holds a MS (2006) and BS (2004) in Geology and Mineralogy from University of Kyoto in Japan. Before joining the UW faculty, Hiroki completed his post-doctorate in the GFZ Helmholtz Center Potsdam. For his publications, see his profile on Google Scholar. Click here for CV. Departmental webpage
Graduate students and Postdocs:
Nairong Du
Position title: PhD student
Email:
ndu23
Nairong Du is a PhD student in Geological Engineering. She is currently working on a NSF-funded project about mechanics of viscous damage zones along rough faults. Before coming to UW-Madison, she worked on fault surface modeling at the Earth Observatory of Singapore as an undergraduate student. She hold a BS (2022) in Environmental Earth System Science (Geoscience) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.