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2026

Ada Lovelace Workshop 2026

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Today, I returned from the Ada Lovelace Workshop in Sec, Czechia. I gave a keynote lecture on “Ductile instability, strain localization, and rupture propagation by thermal runaway” on Tuesday. Thanks for the organizers for inviting me and hosting this great event. Click here to find out more about the workshop.

EGU 2026

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This week, I attended the EGU General Assembly in Vienna. I presented my work on “Understanding the physics of thermal runaway and ductile rupture propagation” in the session “Rheology of Multiphase Rocks: From Atoms to the Lithosphere”. Click here to find out more about the talk.

Julia hackathon

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This week, I attended the 9th edition of the Julia hackathon. The attendees were the usual suspects from Mainz and Zürich, with a couple of fresh faces from elsewhere as well. I mostly worked on integrating JustPIC.jl into my own code DEDLoc and rethinking the way I compute numerical errors. Click here to find out more about the biannual hackathon.

Visit at the University of Leeds

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I visited the University of Leeds for 2 days and gave a seminar on thermal runaway and deep-focus earthquakes. Afterwards, I had a lot of very nice discussions with the earthquake and volcano deformation researchers at the insitute.

New paper published

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A new paper is out in Geoscientific Model Development! Check it out here!

Website is starting to come together

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Website is slowly growing and almost looking usable by now. Great news, right? I am mostly writing these posts to test things. I hope they will have some content one day.

Website goes online

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The website is online but there is nothing on it yet. Looks like a lot of work to do.