Aurora Lambiase

SM Seismology

The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Aurora Lambiase for the poster/PICO entitled:

Induced fault slip events and their deformation fields: insights from FEAR experiments (Lambiase, A.; Meier, M.-A.; Spagnuolo, E.; Nikkhoo, M.; Rinaldi, A. P.; Gischig, V.; Selvadurai, P.; Marsan, D.; Giardini, D.; Wiemer, S.)

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Aurora Lambiase is a doctoral student at ETH Zürich within the Swiss Seismological Service, supervised by Prof. Stefan Wiemer and Dr. Men-Andrin Meier. Her PhD project is part of the TREAD Doctoral Network, funded by the European Union Horizon Europe Programme, and co-supervised by Prof. David Marsan (UGA). Her research explores the potential interactions between seismicity and aseismic processes.

At EGU 2025, Aurora presented preliminary results from the Fault Activation and Earthquake Rupture (FEAR) experiments at the Bedretto Underground Laboratory for Geosciences and Geoenergies (BedrettoLab). These experiments provide a rare opportunity to directly observe the evolution of deformation fields during fluid-induced slow and fast fault slip—crucial for identifying patterns of strain localization and rupture nucleation. In her poster, she introduced a straightforward approach to model slip-induced deformation heterogeneities and relate them to induced seismicity. This work lays the foundation for inferring seismic and aseismic slip distributions from 3D deformation data, offering new insights into fault mechanics and rupture processes.