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Research Team — 2026

Doctoral and master's students I advise, co-advise, or serve on the thesis committee for, as well as undergraduate students I supervise for theses and projects.

Doctorado en Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad de Concepción

Ph.D. students

  • Carolina Peña — Co-advisor

    Spatiotemporal evolution of mechanical coupling in the northern Chile seismic gap from GNSS time series

  • Martín Sepúlveda — Thesis committee member

    Implementation of machine learning for detecting transient events in GNSS time series through relevant feature extraction

Magíster en Geofísica, Universidad de Concepción

M.Sc. students

  • Fernanda Castro — Advisor

    Finite-fault slip inversion of the 2014 Pisagua earthquake (Mw 8.2) using adaptive Tikhonov regularization and non-planar fault geometry

  • Marcelo Cárdenas — Advisor

    Evaluation of optical fiber installed for CO₂ reservoir monitoring in Norway as a distributed acoustic sensor (DAS) for detecting and correlating seismic events (2019)

  • Xavier Fàbregas — Advisor

    Impact of subduction geometry on seismic and volcanic activity in the Maule region inferred from long-period magnetotellurics

  • Favio Cárcamo — Co-advisor

    The b-value as an indicator of physical processes in the crust: a study of crustal seismicity in Chile

  • Josefa Barraza — Co-advisor

    Snow depth estimation from GNSS instrument reflectometry

  • Karen Sanhueza — Thesis committee member

    Application of geophysical surveys and geodetic measurements for the characterization of a rock glacier in the semi-arid Andes of Chile

Carrera de Geofísica, Universidad de Concepción

Undergraduate thesis advising

  • Fernanda Bonilla

    Recognition of "repeater"-type precursory seismicity applied to microseismicity analysis in deep-mining environments, El Teniente mine

  • Fernanda Castro

    Finite-fault slip inversion of the 2014 Pisagua earthquake (Mw 8.2)

  • Marcelo Cárdenas

    Use of DAS to detect seismic events

  • Xavier Fàbregas

    Characterization of subduction in the Maule region, Chile, using long-period magnetotellurics

Proyecto de pregrado, Universidad de Concepción

Undergraduate project advising

  • Benjamín Carvajal

    Study of icequakes and their possible application in mountain glaciers