Rene Gassmoeller

• Staff Scientist, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany
• One of the ASPECT developers
• Develop numerical methods and geodynamic models for new problems
• Recently working on:
• Releasing ASPECT 3.0
• Modeling entropy instead of temperature
• Small-scale convection beneath oceanic plates
• I want to: Grow ASPECT and our community

https://gassmoeller.github.io/

Gassmöller, R., Dannberg, J., Bangerth, W., Puckett, E. G., & Thieulot, C. (2024). Benchmarking the accuracy of higher-order particle methods in geodynamic models of transient flow. Geoscientific Model Development, 17(10), 4115-4134.

Timo Heister

• Professor at Clemson University
• I am one of the ASPECT developers
• Lately: working on efficient solvers, mesh handling, very large problems, IO, visualization
• Goal: growing the community and helping with computational aspects

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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~heister/

Bob Myhill

• One of the newer developers/maintainers of ASPECT
• Lecturer in Earth and Planetary Sciences.
• I have, and continue to add new material, rheological and geometry models to ASPECT, and have developed thermodynamic models of multiphase reactive flow for use in ASPECT
• I have many fun memories involving the wonderful ASPECT community!�

Top: Convection around ASPECT, in ASPECT!�Bottom: A figure showing the potential distribution of dense melt at the core mantle boundary �(Dannberg et al., 2021)

Wolfgang Bangerth

• Professor of Mathematics (and of Geosciences)�at Colorado State University
• I am one of the original two developers
• I enjoy tinkering with software and algorithms
• For this workshop:
• Listen to what people do
• Listen to what people want to do

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https://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth

Menno Fraters

• University of Graz (Austria), Assistant Professor
• One of the developers/maintainers of both ASPECT and the Geodynamic World Builder
• Helping others, discussing the future of ASPECT
• Working on LPO/CPO, diking and Cascadia subduction modelling

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John Naliboff

• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Assistant Professor (Geophysics)
• One of ASPECT developers/maintainers
• Interests: short- and long-term tectonic processes, reactive flow, coupled surface processes, and associated methods development in ASPECT
• Discussing recent developments and learning about everyone’s interests!

Pan et al., 2021, G3; Pan et al. 2022; Tectonics

Douglas et al., 2023 AGU Presentation

Anne Glerum

• Postdoc @ GFZ Potsdam, Germany
• ASPECT developer/maintainer
• Working on:
• sediment-hosted ore deposits in rifts,
• interaction of landscape evolution and continental rifting,
• visco-elasto-plastic implementations,
• coupling to fluid flow code

I look forward to see what everyone is

working on and discussing the future!

Sediment-hosted ore deposits in rifts

ASPECT

CSMP++

Neuharth et al. 2022

source

host

fields

particles

Fluid flow

&

Metal enrichment

20 My + 250 ky

Juliane Dannberg

• Professor for Computational Geodynamics �at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
• One of ASPECT’s developers/maintainers
• Currently working on several projects related to �global convection, mantle plumes, �using thermodynamics in geodynamic models, �the effect of the mineral grain size on �mantle flow, interaction between �convection in the mantle and core…�
• Goals for this meeting
• See what everyone is working on
• Provide help

Lorraine Hwang

• Is: UC Davis, Co Director CIG, Seismologist
• Working on: 2025 CIG TNG see geodynamics.org, geodynamics education, model data, and vectorizing old seismograms.

• ASPECT is: an amazing, growing community of supportive user-developers. I am interested in learning more about the breadth of research and ways to support its community of open source software user-developers.

• Reading more on: computer vision, ML and its python ecosystem.

Ranpeng Li

• PhD Candidate at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
• Current project:
• Model the influence of phase transitions on mantle convection (click here to see our recent publication ;)

• Implementing multi-component averaging for the entropy method
• Learn about what people are working on with ASPECT

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https://ranpengli.github.io/

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Cedric Thieulot

• Assistant Prof. at Utrecht University (NL) https://cedrict.github.io/
• Computational geodynamics

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Van der Wiel et al, EPSL 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118471

GRL, 2024

Tina Neumann

• PhD student at GFZ Potsdam/ RWTH Aachen
• Investigating the processes determining rift success or failure
• My Project focuses on generating ‘realistic’ rift models in ASPECT
• Learning about the different usabilities & current abilities of ASPECT, exchange about limitations

https://www.gfz.de/en/staff/tina.neumann/sec25

Madhusudan Sharma

• Doctoral student @ GEO3BCN - CSIC, Barcelona
• Currently working on:
• Modeling Subduction Zones and Investigating Slab Dynamics.
• Investigating role of subducting plate heterogeneity on trench retreat and slab geometry
• Use ASPECT and GWB to build 2D visco-plastic subduction models
• To explore the work of others and discover new features of ASPECT.

Alexandr Dizov

• Masters student at Charles University in Prague, Department of Geophysics.
• New to ASPECT, regular user.
• Modeling the formation of Venus' Regios using a model with implementation of melting.
• Explore possibilities for improvement and get to know the community.

Arushi Saxena

• Assistant Project Scientist at CIG, UC Davis
• I used ASPECT and GWB to develop global mantle convection models
• I also use ASPECT to create educational modules for geodynamic concepts
• To know more about the updates in ASPECT and what everyone in the community is working on

Antoniette Greta Grima

• Assistant Professor at the University of Glasgow�
• Working on:
• Modelling subduction & deep slab dynamics
• Ice dynamics on Europa with PhD student H. Kim
• Evolution of topography at subduction zones�
• Goals for the meeting:
• See what others are working on

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/antoniettegretagrima/

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Grima & Becker EPSL 2024

Fred Richards

• Lecturer at Imperial College London (Earth Science & Engineering)
• Regular user of ASPECT but relative novice when it comes to development
• Currently using ASPECT to:
• Reconstruct changes in dynamic topography through time and their impact on past sea-levels.
• Constrain LL(S)VP viscosity and density structure.
• Development project with Bob Myhill, Harriet Lau, and John Naliboff to implement transient rheology into ASPECT for modelling of ice-sheet–mantle interactions
• Goals for this meeting
• Discuss ideas for how best to implement new transient viscoelastic material model.
• Learn what others are using ASPECT for

https://freddrichards.github.io/

Michael Pons

• Postdoc at GFZ Potsdam in Germany
• Regular User of ASPECT, I am also developing when needed.
• Currently working on :
• Global plate tectonics models (Main activity)
• Subduction using generic and data-driven models (PhD)
• Rift and plume interactions, Supercontinent break-up LLSVPS …
• Currently developing :
• Damage strain rheology (Fuchs et al., 2021)
• Fastscape CC version coupling to global model
• Additional internal and external post processes
• At this meeting I want to learn more about some of the new features in ASPECT, meet new (and older) users and have fun!

Website : minerallo.github.io/website_MP/

(Additional videos in the gallery)

ERC

MEET

Ágnes Király

• Researcher at PHAB, University of Oslo
• Trying to understand the role of anisotropic viscosity on geodynamic processes
• Working towards integrating anisotropic viscosity into ASPECT
• Catch up on what’s happening around ASPECT

Picture about your work (optional)

Yijun Wang

• PhD candidate at PHAB, University of Oslo
• Working on anisotropic viscosity in subduction models
• Implementing anisotropic viscosity material model in ASPECT
• See what people are working on with ASPECT

Daniel Douglas

• PhD Candidate at New Mexico Tech
• Investigate impacts of fluids at convergent margins
• Developing Two-phase reactive fluid transport subduction models in 3D
• See what people are working on!

Jeroen van Hunen

• Professor in geodynamics at Durham University, UK
• My research? subduction/collision, cratons, Earth evolution, geothermal
• My ASPECT? Mostly a user, but would love to get better at developing and contributing
• Why here? See what everyone is working on

Crustal deformation in the Aegean

Becky Fildes

• Postdoc at UC Davis
• Investigating conditions in subducting slabs and how this relates to deep earthquake occurrences
• Use ASPECT + GWB to build 2D visco-elastic-plastic location-specific subduction models
• Learn about what others are working on!

Kai Li

• PhD candidate at GFZ Potsdam and Free University of Berlin, Germany
• Exploring the impact of orogenic inheritance on rifted margins by the coupling of Aspect and Fastscape
• A regular user and interested in the developing of Aspect
• See the latest features and applications of Aspect

Derek Neuharth

• Postdoc at ETH Zurich
• Investigating subduction zones in dynamic models.
• Developing depth-dependent linear pore fluid ratio profiles by composition to see how they affect accretionary wedge formation.
• Learning about what is new with ASPECT and what people are working on.

Kuruvitage Chameera Chathuranga Silva

• PhD Candidate at CERI, University of Memphis
• Investigate multiphase continental rifting
• I’m a Regular user and interested in development of ASPECT
• Learn about new features and what others do

Anil Earnest

• Principal Scientist at CSIR-Fourth Paradigm Institute, Bangalore, India
• Earthquake seismologist
• Interested in using ASPECT for studying various tectonic deformational scenarios
• Catch-up from the community on latest happenings.

Srivatsan Vedavyas

• Ph.D student/candidate @ The Ben-Gurion Unversity of the Negev.
• Investigating the influence of textural evolution of olivine aggregates on mantle dynamics.
• Working on developing improved algorithm to estimate CPO + grainsize evolution (D-Rex++) in ASPECT.
• Learn about what others are Working on.

Work In Progress!!

Matias Barrionuevo

• Researcher at CONICET, Argentina
• I’m studying the Southern Central Andes tectonic evolution
• I’m interested in simulating the subduction system with focus in the deformation of the upper plate
• To know about the new updates and capabilities of ASPECT, to know what’s people doing with it and to restart my models

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matias-Barrionuevo

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Gerry Puckett

• Professor of Mathematics, U. C. Davis
• Algorithm Analysis & Development in ASPECT
• especially for advection …
• Together with students and postdocs
• developed methods for modeling advection in ASPECT; e.g.,
• Particles w/ Harsha Lokavarapu, Rene Gassmoeller, …
• DG with limiting w/ Ying He & Magali Billen
• Volume of Fluid w/ Jonathan Robey
• Recently working on …
• Limiters for Interpolation on Particles
• DG for Two Phase Flow / Melt
• Interested in
• seeing what others are doing with ASPECT; how they use various algorithms, what they use them for, …
• participating in the growth of the ASPECT community

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6589-7395

Volume of Fluid computation of collision of Sn - Cu Plates showing Jetting, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, etc. Puckett, E.G. & Miller,G.H. (1996) Numerical computation of jetting impacts. Proc. 20th ISSW v. 2, 1467–1472. World Scientific, New York

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D. Sarah Stamps

• Associate Professor of Geophysics, Virginia Tech
• Geodesy and Tectonophysics Laboratory
• GNSS/GPS observations + numeral modeling
• Recently working on related to ASPECT…
• Presence of deep melt below the Western Branch of the East African Rift System (Kwagalakwe et al., in revisions, JGR)
• Role of pre-existing weaknesses in rift evolution
• Interested in at present related to ASPECT ….
• Getting ASPECT working again properly on Virginia Tech’s supercomputers
• Continental-scale lithosphere-asthenosphere coupled models that include deep melt generation
• Learning about ongoing applications of ASPECT

Your picture (optional)

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3531-1752

Social Media/Github:

dsarahstamps

Yimin Jin

• Post-doc at Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration
• Application of HPC in geoscience and geomechanics
• Explore the potential of FEM in large-scale problems

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https://github.com/YiminJin

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Moh(amed) Gouiza

• Project Scientist, CIG, UC Davis
• Tectonics & geodynamics of rifts and rifted margins, Geodynamic modelling (user), Education resources
• I am a user of ASPECT:
• Geodynamic models to investigate the tectonic processes operating in rifts.
• Embedding ASPECT models in educational resources.
• Learn about the new ASPECT features & advertise the work CIG is carrying out to develop education resources.

Arushi Saxena

• Post doc at Clemson University
• I used ASPECT for global and regional tomography-based instantaneous models
• To know more about the updates in ASPECT and what everyone in the community is working on

Frank Zwaan

• Structural geologist & tectonic modeller @ GFZ Potsdam
• ​
• Main topic:
• exhumation of mantle rocks for natural H2 gas potential (green energy) → I'm using ASPECT for this
• ​
• Getting familiar with everything ASPECT-related :)

https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/staff/frank.zwaan

Zwaan et al. (in review)

Qianyi Lu

• PhD students in UC Davis
• Mantle plume dynamics and the melt generation related to LIPs
• Regular user and recently strat trying to develop a little.
• See what everybody is doing and catch up with the ASPECT updates.

Picture about your work (not there yet :D)

Ebru Şengül Uluocak (ebrusengul@gmail.com)

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• Assistant Professor at Çanakale Onsekiz Mart University (Geophysical Engineering), Turkey
• Research Fellow (TUBITAK) at GFZ-Potsdam (Lithosphere Dynamics), Germany
• I’m using ASPECT for my time dependent and instantaneous thermomechanical models as a very useful tool.
• To meet genius developers & users and catch up with updates.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ebru-Senguel-Uluocak

10.1029/2021TC007031

Alan Yu

• PhD student at Subsurface Process Modelling, GFZ Potsdam, Germany
• Working on:
• Geodynamic modelling of continental rifting (with numerical code ASPECT)
• Thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling of geothermal reservoirs (with code GOLEM)
• Automated coupling of ASPECT, GOLEM, and World Builder
• Want to: learn, code, and have fun :)

alanjyu.com

Ongoing geodynamic modelling of the Upper Rhine Graben.

Arijit Chakraborty

• PhD student at Durham University, UK
• Currently working on modelling processes related to
• Craton dynamics
• associated ore deposit formation
• Learning more about ASPECT and what others are working on!

Website: https://arijitchkc.github.io/

Geodynamics modelling of Plume-craton interaction

Miao Dong

• Associate Professor at Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing ,China. Visiting scholar (11.2024~11.2025) at GFZ Potsdam, Germany
• A regular user and interested in the developing of ASPECT
• Recently working on:
• 2D global modelling of plate tectonics
• Analysis of plate tectonic forces for rifting and subduction initiation
• Learn about the new features of the ASPECT

Açelya Ballı

PhD student at Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences

• Geodynamic evolution of cratonic lithosphere deformation particularly North China Craton,
• Eclogite-induced recycling in orogenic regions.

Looking forward to meeting ASPECT users and learning about new updates.

ballia@itu.edu.tr

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Poulami Roy

• Post-doctoral research associate,

Durham University, UK

• Regular user of ASPECT, interested

in development

• Currently working on

Early-Earth geodynamics,

Modelling plume generation from LLSVPs,

Globalscale and regional scale mantle convection,

Deep Earth Seismic anisotropy

• To see what people working

on and new features of ASPECT.

Website:

https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/poulami-roy/

Join My Talk Tomorrow: 10:45 – 11:00 AM PT

Quang Hoang

• Mathematics PhD student at Clemson University
• ASPECT contributor
• Interests: Linear Solvers
• Goal: Hearing about what others are working on

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https://github.com/quangx

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Leevi Tuikka

• PhD candidate at University of Helsinki, Finland
• Regular user, got into ASPECT last year
• Research: Proterozoic geodynamics, flat slab subduction, (micro)continental collision
• Recently working on:
• Finding a reasonable parameter configuration for the initial isostatic adjustment with heterogeneous lithosphere and low-viscosity asthenosphere
• Exploring effects of different variables on the slab flattening
• I want to: learn what others are doing and get some new ideas

Isostatic adjusting with free surface.

Slab flattening w/ 20 km thick oceanic crust and hotter Precambrian – hence weak – asthenosphere.

https://helsinki.fi/geodynamics

David Whipp (unable to be online for intros)

• Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Experienced user of geodynamic modeling software (DOUAR), but new to ASPECT
• Interested in the evolution of mountainous regions (tectonics, geodynamics, surface processes)
• Wanting to learn what people�are up to using ASPECT and�to get more involved in the�community

https://helsinki.fi/geodynamics

DOUAR + FastScape

- PhD student at GFZ Potsdam / Freie Universität Berlin

- User of ASPECT, also interested in the developing of ASPECT

- Currently working on

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The intraplate volcanism triggered by slab-plume interaction, e.g., the Eifel, and the Hainan volcanic area

Yingying Li

- See what people are working on using ASPECT

Liang Xue

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• Research Scientist at New Mexico Tech
• Tectonics-geodynamics-geomorphology of rifts and rifted margins
• User of ASPECT:

Geodynamic models to investigate the tectonic processes operating in rifts.

Couple more features in landscape evolution model in Aspect

• Learn about the new ASPECT features

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• https://geoxue.wordpress.com/

Hyunseong Kim (h.kim.6@research.gla.ac.uk)

• Earth Sciences PhD student at University of Glasgow
• User of ASPECT
• Working on ice tectonics on Europa
• Convecting icy shell
• Subsumption band (possible subduction process)
• Visco-elastic-plastic deformation
• Free surface deformation
• Wanting to learn about how other people use ASPECT

Petra Maierová

- Researcher at Czech Geological Survey

- Interested in melting and melt migration in continental crust

- Learn more about recent development in two-phase flow modeling and discuss possible modifications

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https://clr.geology.cz/people/dr-petra-maierova

Kai Li

- A two-way coupling of ASPECT and the landscape evolution model FastScape

- Quantify the rifted margin architectures for models with/without orogenic inheritance

- I am happy to learn the various research topics with ASPECT

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Daniel Douglas

• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, PhD Candidate (Geophysics)
• Interests: Subduction zone processes, reactive flow, and associated methods development in ASPECT and the Geodynamic World Builder

Ryan Stoner

• Postdoc at University of Miami
• Focus on subduction, continental collision, processes related to fluid release and phase changes in upper mantle and crust
• Excited about learning more about future directions in ASPECT world

Prajakta Mohite

• I am PhD student working with Dr. John Naliboff at New Mexico Tech

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• I do time-dependent ice sheet dynamics, currently working on benchmarking

dike simulation -ASPECT coupling.

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• Also working on continental

collisions and I started working on

Lithospheric Deformation and

Reactive melt transport

into the crust.

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• Goal is know more about ASPECT.

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Adam F. Holt

• Assistant Professor, University of Miami, FL, US.
• Working on: Subduction zones, local to the global scale.
• Why here? Interested in recent developments - scientific and the code base.