Strain and stress analysis (Stress on plane, The Stress ellipsoid, Mohr circle of stress, Tensor components of stress, Stress fields, Distortion and deformation, the strain ellipsoid, Mohr circle for infinitesimal and finite strain, Displacement and deformation gradients, tensor of infinitesimal and finite strain, strain field)
Heat Transfer and Rheology (Fourier’s Law of Heat Conduction, Earth’s Surface Heat Flux, Thermal Stress, Frictional Heating on Faults, Techniques for the measurements of the rock thermal conductivity, Laboratory experiment using the Transient Divider Bar to measure thermal conductivity of sample rocks.
Seismic Tomography (Radial variations of density, gravity and pressure, Density inside the Earth, Gravity and pressure inside the Earth, Models of the Earth’s internal structure, ..)
Radar interferometry (radar satellite systems: Synthetic Aperture Radar; amplitude and phase characteristics of radar images, InSAR applications: coseismic, post seismic and interseismic, time variations of the deformation, ..)
Soil gas flux (Geochemical analyses of surface and shallow gas flux, Geochemistry of soil gas across active fault zones, Volcanic degassing, soil and near surface gas monitoring,...)