Hiroki Sone, Assistant Professor, leads the rock mechanics group at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He is a faculty member in the Geological Engineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. He is also an affiliated faculty in the Department of Geoscience. He holds a PhD (2012) in Geophysics from Stanford University. He also holds a MS (2006) and BS (2004) in Geology and Mineralogy from University of Kyoto in Japan. Before joining the UW faculty, Hiroki completed his post-doctorate in the GFZ Helmholtz Center Potsdam.
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Eril Suhada Lanin, PhD student, holds a MS (2011) and BS (2004) in Geology from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) in Indonesia. Before starting his doctorate study at UW, he was an assistant lecturer at ITB. He also had previous experience working in the industry. He was a Technical Professional Log Analyst at Halliburton and a Petrophysicist/ Operations Geologist at Kangean Energy in Indonesia. His research focuses on mechanical properties, especially creep, of shales. 

Mayukh Talukdar, is a PhD student in the Department of Geological Engineering. His interest addresses characterizing fault damage zones and evaluating the importance of ductile behavior on interseismic fault mechanics. Mayukh works in partnership with Taiwanese scientists to embark on bulk time dependent deformational properties, mostly on cores available from ICDP and IODP projects. Previously, as an MS (2016) student at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, he has studied fracture toughness of heat treated samples to simulate hydro-fracking conditions. He holds a BS (2014) in Geological Sciences from Jadavpur University, India. 

Zirou Jin, PhD student, holds a MS (2018) in GLE from UW-Madison, BS (2016) in Applied Geophysics from Central South University in China. She studies geophysical methods as an undergraduate. She is currently focusing on analytical calculation and data inversion on laboratory fault slip data. Specifically, it is on Westerly granite properties during stick-slip cycles and the viscous properties of Nankai accretionary prism material undergoing stress accumulation.