About me

Welcome to the Crustal Deformation and InSAR Geodesy lab at Universidad de Chile!

I am an InSAR geodesist from Chile and assistant professor at the Department of Geology of Universidad de Chile.

My research focuses on the use of space geodetic data to understand a variety of crustal deformation processes that occur in volcanoes, faults, plate boundaries, glaciers, and salars. Specifically I use InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar), GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System), and DEM (Digital Elevation Models) that I complement with field observations, seismological, geochemical, and mineralogical data. Most of my research have focused to understand magma storage, transport, and eruption dynamics in volcanoes of the Southern Andes in Chile, which is the most productive active volcanic arc in the world in the past 40 years. I have also worked in other subdution zones (Aleutians, Vanuatu) and hot spots (Yellowstone, Galapagos, Hawai’i). In the past years I have worked mostly to understand the strain accumulation, release and the segmentation of the Magallanes Fagnano fault zone, the plate boundary between the Sotuh America and Scotia plates.

Deploying a GNSS station in southernmost Patagonia to study the Magallanes Fagnano fault zone, January 2023.