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Maryam Alghannam

Ibn Rushd Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Physical Science and Engineering Division

maryam.alghannam@kaust.edu.sa


Affiliations

Education Profile

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech, 2023-2025
  • Ph.D. in Computational Science and Engineering, MIT, 2022
  • M.S., in Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2017

Research Interests

My research interests broadly span flow in porous media, friction, and earthquakes. I am particularly interested in understanding how fluids interact with faults and fractures in the subsurface. An application area I have worked on extensively is induced seismicity—a central issue in the development of environmentally safe and sustainable subsurface energy technologies. At KAUST, I plan to continue to study fluid-fault interactions and expand into new application areas, such as enhanced geothermal systems and nonvolcanic tremors.

Selected Publications

  • Alghannam, M., & Juanes, R. (2020). Understanding rate effects in injection-induced earthquakes. Nature communications, 11(1), 3053.

  • Alghannam, M., Gomez, H., & Juanes, R. (2024). Fluid-injection control on energy partitioning during the earthquake cycle. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 186, 105580.