Dr. Brendan Meade

Biography

Brendan Meade is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. His research is focused on characterizing earthquake cycle behaviors, topographic evolution, and employs mathematical and computational approaches. He received his Bachelor of Arts in History of Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1998 and completed his Ph.D. in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT in 2004. Meade served as a Reginald Daly postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and has held positions as an assistant, associate, and full professor. In addition to his academic roles, he has collaborated with Google Research as a visiting professor and worked as a research scientist at Google DeepMind. His work encompasses a range of topics related to solid Earth processes, including geodesic imaging of fault system activity, the coupling of fluvial and tectonic evolution in mountain belts, and the mechanics of geometrically complex fault systems. By developing regional and global scale computational models of active earthquake cycles constrained by GNSS and InSAR satellite observations, Meade provides insights into future earthquake locations, strain energy accumulation rates, and estimates of topographic growth rates, as well as physical interactions within the crust-mantle system.

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