Abdallah Aoude, a GeM PhD student receives the ‘Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation’ 2024 award at EGU24

Abdallah Aoude is a PhD student in the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM), under the supervision of Ioannis Stefanou with co-supervisors Vito Rubino and Jean-François Semblat, in the Dynamics of Structures, Processes and Earthquakes (DYNAST) research unit.

His research, as part of the European ERC CoQuake project, focuses on the experimental design of earthquake control strategies, specifically through the development and design of analogue fault systems to study and test earthquake nucleation and control.

At EGU24, Abdallah presented a new experiment that simulates earthquake-like events in the laboratory. This experiment is designed to implement and test existing control theories to prevent instabilities and achieve controlled slip rates, while also enabling the study of earthquake nucleation and rupture propagation.

The prize was awarded for his poster/PICO entitled "Design of a new laboratory earthquake experiment ’ (Aoude, A.; Stefanou, I.; Semblat, J.-F.; Rubino, V.).