I am a physicist working on the dynamics of nonlinear and anisotropic continua, with particular interest in how microscopic organization influences macroscopic behavior. My research involves the rheology and elasticity of complex materials, porous media deformation, inverse parameter estimation, radar and seismic wave propagation, turbulent cascades, and more. Across these topics, I develop efficient mathematical and computational approaches to broaden our understanding of how different scales interact and govern the bulk behaviour of natural fluids and solids.
A major focus of my work is the mechanics of polycrystalline glacier ice. I study how orientational order develops among individual ice crystals that gives rise to anisotropic material properties at larger scales, and I construct models that connect this material evolution to the dynamics of Earth’s ice sheets. To that end, I rely on observables derived from ice cores and increasingly ground-penetrating radar and seismic measurements to infer properties that cannot be measured directly.