Ghassan Shahin

Expertise I am a geomechanics researcher with interests in the mechanical behavior of the Earth's materials at conditions pertaining to the shallow Earth and upper mantle. In my studies, I employ laboratory geomechanics backed by x-ray methods, advanced constitutive modeling, and material theories to study failure patterns across scales spanning from the grain-scale up to the field-scale. Expertise I am a geomechanics researcher with interests in the mechanical behavior of the Earth's materials at conditions pertaining to the shallow Earth and upper mantle. In my studies, I employ laboratory geomechanics backed by x-ray methods, advanced constitutive modeling, and material theories to study failure patterns across scales spanning from the grain-scale up to the field-scale. After serving as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Scholar for two years, I am currently an Ambizione Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Mechanical Engineering. I hold a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University, a joint Erasmus Mundus master's in Earthquake Engineering from the University of Grenoble-Alpes and the School of Advanced Studies-Pavia, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Damascus University.