Presenter

Daniel Roten is a Computational Research Seismologist in the Department of Geological Sciences at San Diego State University. His main research interest concerns the prediction and understanding of strong ground motion during earthquakes, especially with respect to nonlinear effects near the source and on soft sediments. He also has an affiliated research appointment with the High-Performance GeoComputing Lab of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, where he is part of the team that won the 2015 NVIDIA global impact award. He received his PhD in seismology from ETH Zurich in 2007.