Paint­ed Hills, John Day Fos­sil Beds Nation­al Mon­u­ment, Ore­gon, Unit­ed States

I am a Thai earth­quake researcher spe­cial­iz­ing in active faults, dis­trib­uted fault sys­tems, and shear zones. My work focus­es on how the ground deforms dur­ing earthquakes—both along faults and across broad­er, more com­plex zones of defor­ma­tion. I have stud­ied fault sys­tems in South­east Asia and the East­ern Cal­i­for­nia Shear Zone, where under­stand­ing rup­ture behav­iour of hid­den or seg­ment­ed faults is crit­i­cal for improv­ing earth­quake haz­ard assess­ments.

I use tools such as InSAR (Inter­fer­o­met­ric Syn­thet­ic Aper­ture Radar), remote sens­ing, tec­ton­ic geo­mor­phol­o­gy, field map­ping, and 3D fault mod­el­ling to char­ac­ter­ize ground defor­ma­tion and fault kine­mat­ics. I inves­ti­gate fac­tors like fault struc­tur­al matu­ri­ty and shal­low slip deficits to explore how these may inform future seis­mic haz­ards.

Cur­rent­ly based at The Uni­ver­si­ty of Mel­bourne, I am col­lab­o­rat­ing with Geo­science Aus­tralia on the Dis­as­ter Ready Fund project, sup­port­ed by the Nation­al Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency of Aus­tralia, to assess and improve the under­stand­ing of earth­quake haz­ards in Ade­laide, South Aus­tralia. As part of this work, I am also devel­op­ing the Com­mu­ni­ty Fault Mod­el (CFM) for South Aus­tralia.

I am pas­sion­ate about bridg­ing earth­quake sci­ence with real-world appli­ca­tions. I work close­ly with engi­neers, the nation­al seis­mic haz­ard mod­el­ling team, and com­mu­ni­ty stake­hold­ers to ensure that this research sup­ports evi­dence-based seis­mic haz­ard mod­els and strength­ens com­mu­ni­ty resilience.

Work & Education

2024–Recent
The Uni­ver­si­ty of Mel­bourne, Vic­to­ria, Aus­tralia
Research Fel­low in Earth­quake Sci­ence

2024
Uni­ver­si­ty of Vic­to­ria, British Colum­bia, Cana­da
PhD in Earth and Ocean Sci­ences

2019
Ore­gon State Uni­ver­si­ty, Cor­val­lis, Unit­ed States
MSc in Geol­o­gy

2016 
Chu­la­longko­rn Uni­ver­si­ty, Bangkok, Thai­land
BSc in Geol­o­gy (Sum­ma Cum Laude)

Research interest

Earth­quake geol­o­gy,
active tec­ton­ics,
remote-sens­ing & geo­desy
(InSAR, pho­togram­me­try),
tec­ton­ic geo­mor­phol­o­gy

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Selected awards

2025 Best Oral Pre­sen­ta­tion, Fac­ul­ty of Sci­ence Research Sum­mit (Unimelb)
2024 & 2021 Seis­mo­log­i­cal Soci­ety of Amer­i­ca Stu­dent Pre­sen­ta­tion Award
2023 AGU Out­stand­ing Stu­dent Pre­sen­ta­tion Award
2021 Run­ner-up cam­pus-wide Three Minute The­sis Com­pe­ti­tion (UVic)
2019 Teach­ing Assis­tant Excel­lence Award (OSU)
2018 Geo­log­i­cal Soci­ety of Amer­i­ca Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Research Grant
2017 Ful­bright Thai Grad­u­ate Schol­ar­ship

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