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Christian Huber is a Professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. He grew up in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, specifically in Geneva. Huber studied Earth Sciences, earning a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science before pursuing a Bachelor in Physics. In 2005, he moved to Berkeley to complete his PhD in 2009. He held a tenure-track position at Georgia Tech in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, with a courtesy appointment in Civil and Environmental Engineering, before joining Brown's DEEPS. His research focuses on the role of multiphase processes and dynamics in Earth and planetary bodies, emphasizing volcanology, geodynamics, and porous media flows through various theoretical, numerical, and experimental approaches. Huber has received multiple awards, including the Hishashi Kuno Award from the American Geophysical Union in 2015, the NSF CAREER Award the same year, and the Paul Niggli Medal from the Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology in 2010.
Department: Department of Economics