Institute: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University
Title: Associate Professor
Country/Region: Canada
Period: 2025/5/20 - 2025/10/17
Theme: Advancing the Understanding of the Nucleation Process of the Noto Earthquake
Host: Aitaro KATO
Introduction: Dr. Miao Zhang is an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada. Before joining Dalhousie in 2019, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2015, followed by postdoctoral training at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Stanford University. His research interests include all types of seismic events and their occurrence mechanisms, both on land and at sea—ranging from tectonic and volcanic earthquakes to induced earthquakes and man-made explosions. He is also passionate about developing open-source software packages for earthquake monitoring and seismic analysis. During his stay at the ERI, he will work with Prof. Aitaro Kato to characterize and understand the mechanisms of foreshocks of large earthquakes.
Fiscal Year: 2025