Roland Burgmann
Professor,
UC Berkeley
Roland Bürgmann is a geophysicist whose research investigates crustal deformation, earthquakes, and the mechanical behavior of the lithosphere. Using geodesy, satellite remote sensing, and field observations, his work reveals how tectonic stresses accumulate and are released through faulting and crustal deformation.
He is Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Seismology Lab at UC Berkeley and a Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he leads research on crustal dynamics and tectonic processes.