YOUYI RUAN

Departmental Postdoctral Research Associate
Geological Sciences, Brown University

My primary research interests include theoretical and computational seismology, wave propagation phenomena in complex media and 3-D seismic tomography. My Ph.D. research is to investigate surface wave propagation in 3-D anelastic media and finite frequency effects of 3-D velocity and 3-D anelasticity structures on surface-wave phase delays and amplitudes.

I am now working with Dr. Donald Forsyth and Dr. Karen Fischer on an adjoint tomography project imaging 3-D high-resolution Lithosphere and Asthenosphere structures beneath Juan de Fuca plate.