Nadia Lapusta | |
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| Alma mater | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Harvard University |
| Known for | Continuum mechanics Earthquake physics |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
Nadia Lapusta is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology. She designed the first computational model that could accurately and efficiently simulate sequence of earthquakes and interseismic slow deformation on a planar fault in a single consistent physical framework.[1]