Diego Melgar is the Ann and Lew Williams Chair in Earth Sciences and an assistant professor of geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on large earthquakes where he works to understand the physics of the rupture process and how to best image it by using many diverse kinds of on-shore and off-shore geophysical data. Melgar researches the hazards associated with these large events, working on tsunami modeling and coastal impacts, as well as studying how strong shaking can be forecast.
He was awarded the 2016 Charles Richter early career award from the Seismological Society of America. He is also a member of the National Academy of Science's Committe on Solid Earth Geophysics. Prior to joining the University of Oregon, he spent three years at the University of California Berkeley's Seismological Laboratory. Melgar earned his B.Eng. in geophysics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and his MS and PhD in geophysics from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. |