{"id":97,"date":"2016-11-24T20:21:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T20:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2025-06-11T22:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T22:11:18","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/?page_id=97","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Faculty<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/seulgi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-127\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/seulgi.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><strong>Seulgi Moon<br \/>\n<\/strong>Ph.D., Stanford University<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Associate Professor, UCLA<\/p>\n<h4>Postdocs<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/epss.ucla.edu\/media\/uploads\/directory\/profile_pictures\/Chuxuan-Li-UNC-MASC-Mei-Lab-Member-2018-01-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"headshot of Chuxuan Li\" width=\"162\" height=\"162\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chuxuan Li <\/strong>(Ph.D., Northwestern)<br \/>\n(Primary co-advisor: Gilles Peltzer)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Boontigan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-201\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Boontigan-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Boontigan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Boontigan-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Boontigan.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Boontigan Kuhasubpasin <\/strong>(Ph.D., UCLA)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>(Primary co-advisor: Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni)<br \/>\n<em>Stress, fault, and river flows<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Graduate Students<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/epss.ucla.edu\/media\/uploads\/directory\/profile_pictures\/HanzhangChen.jpg\" alt=\"Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences\" width=\"145\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hanzhang Chen <\/strong>(Ph.D., UCLA)<em><br \/>\nPlanetary Geology<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5603AQHvlaK69TOveQ\/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200\/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200\/0\/1691016823153?e=2147483647&amp;v=beta&amp;t=cswvv9hTPg7C5sMmY8DGjdjj8vjm_SR6F6AjZMKyKAw\" alt=\"Benjamin Tan - Material Science, PhD Student - UCLA Henry Samueli School of  Engineering and Applied Science | LinkedIn\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" \/><br \/>\nBenjamin Tan\u00a0 (Ph.D. student)\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n(co-adviser: Louis Bouchard)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/epss.ucla.edu\/media\/uploads\/directory\/profile_pictures\/yifansun_headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences\" width=\"147\" height=\"147\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Yifan Sun (Ph.D. student)<\/strong><br \/>\n(co-adviser: Lingsen Meng)<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/epss.ucla.edu\/media\/uploads\/directory\/profile_pictures\/Koutsoukos_Alexander_headshot_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\nAlexander Koutsoukos (Ph.D. student)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Busti.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-445 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Busti-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Busti-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Busti-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Busti.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Riccardo Busti <\/strong>(Ph.D. student in Univ. Trento, Italy)<br \/>\n(Primary adviser: Giuseppe Formetta)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Undergraduate students<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Alexa Nguyen (UCLA)<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Alumni\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><em>Postdocs<\/em><br \/>\nNathan Brown, <\/strong>Ph.D., UCLA, now an assistant professor at UT Arlington<br \/>\n<strong>Gen Li, <\/strong>Ph.D., USC,\u00a0 now an assistant professor at UCSB<br \/>\n<strong>Sourav Saha, <\/strong>Ph.D., U of Cincinnati, now at Kentucky Geologic Survey<br \/>\n<strong>Al Neely<\/strong>, Ph.D., Penn State, now an Arizona Geologic Survey<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Graduate students\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Sean Faulk <\/strong>(Primary co-advisor: Jonathan Mitchell) Ph.D.<br \/>\n<strong>Jessica Lin, <\/strong>M.S., UCLA (Currently at a consulting firm)<br \/>\n<strong>Heather Kirkpatrick, <\/strong>Ph.D., UCLA, a faculty member at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette<br \/>\n<strong>Xuan Zhang,<\/strong> Ph.D. the Chinese Academy of Sciences<br \/>\n<strong>Zach Plante, <\/strong>M.S., UCLA (Currently at a consulting firm)<br \/>\n<strong>Kevin Shao<\/strong>, Ph.D., UCLA<br \/>\n<strong>Justin Higa<\/strong>, Ph.D., UCLA<br \/>\n<strong>Maria Argueta,<\/strong> Ph.D., UCLA, a faculty member at MiraCosta College<br \/>\n<strong>Josh Lee, <\/strong>M.S., UCLA, now a Ph.D. student at Univ. of Connecticut<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Undergraduate students\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nEmmons McKinney, <\/strong>B.S., UCLA<br \/>\n<strong>Rebecca Lewis<\/strong>, B.S., UCLA, a graduate student at UCLA<br \/>\n<strong>Christina Kitamikado<\/strong>, BS, UCLA, a graduate student at Univ. of Wyoming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Seulgi Moon Ph.D., Stanford University Associate Professor, UCLA Postdocs Chuxuan Li (Ph.D., Northwestern) (Primary co-advisor: Gilles Peltzer) Boontigan Kuhasubpasin (Ph.D., UCLA) (Primary co-advisor: Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni) Stress, fault, and river flows Graduate Students Hanzhang Chen (Ph.D., UCLA) Planetary Geology Benjamin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/?page_id=97\">Continue <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~sgmoon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}