Srisharan Shreedharan

Field: Earth Science
Areas of Focus: Earthquakes, Geology, Geophysics

Expertise

• Earthquakes
• Faults
• Geophysics
• Rock Mechanics

Bio

Srisharan is an Assistant Professor of geomechanics and geophysics in the Department of Geosciences at Utah State University. He is broadly interested in faulting, friction and the mechanics of how earthquakes start, propagate and stop, particularly at shallow plate interfaces and in subsurface energy systems. Srisharan uses a combination of friction experiments, ultrasonic monitoring, numerical modeling and machine learning techniques in his research to better understand faulting and friction at multiple scales. Before Utah, he was a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. Srisharan earned his PhD in Geosciences at Penn State, and an MS in Geological Engineering from the University of Arizona.