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Hamed O.Ghaffari joined Matěj Peč’s research group in June 2017. Hamed finished his PhD from the department of Civil Engineering (University of Toronto, 2014). From 2009 to 2010, he was a research assistant in university of Ottawa (Canada) , studying coupled process (THM) and gas propagation in deep geological repositories. From 2010 to 2015, He involved in Paul Young’s Lab.-University of Toronto- working mainly on ultrasound probes of fractured rocks under different conditions of stress and temperatures, including  micro-mechanisms in true triaxial tests ,rupture mechanism and dynamic loading tests. He was a post-doc (2015-2017) in W.A.Griffith’s Lab (University of Texas) and working on the response of materials under dynamic loading and out-of –equilibrium physics of micro-cracks with excited acoustic signals.

His current research includes study of acoustic phonon emissions to analysis physic s of partly molten rocks and lattice preferred orientations akin to mechanisms in upper mantle and with applications on deep-earthquake faulting.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Ghaffari, H.O., W.A. Griffith, and P. Benson, “Microscopic Evolution of Laboratory Volcanic Hybrid Earthquakes”, Scientific Reports (Nature), 7, 40560; doi: 10.1038/srep40560 (2017).

Ghaffari, H.O., W.A. Griffith, P. Benson, K. Xia, and R. Paul Young, “Observation of the Kibble–Zurek Mechanism in Microscopic Acoustic Crackling Noises”, Scientific Reports (Nature),. 6, 21210; doi: 10.1038/srep21210 (2016).

Ghaffari, H.O., Nasseri, M.H.B., and R. Paul Young, “Faulting of Rocks in a Three-Dimensional Stress Field by Micro-Anticracks”, Scientific Reports. 4:5011. doi: 10.1038/srep05011., 2014.

Ghaffari, H.O., B.D.Thompson, and Young, R. Paul, “Complex Networks and Waveforms from Acoustic Emissions in Laboratory Earthquakes”, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 21, 763-775, 2014.

Ghaffari, H.O., and R. Paul Young, “Acoustic-Friction Networks and the Evolution of Precursor Rupture Fronts in Laboratory Earthquakes”, Scientific Reports 8. doi: 10.1038/srep01799, 2013.

Ghaffari, H.O., and R.P. Young, “Topological Complexity of Frictional Interfaces: Friction Networks”,  Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 19, 215-225, 2012.

Ghaffari, H.O. , M.Sharifzadeh & M.Fall, “Analysis of Aperture Evolution in a Rock Joint Using a Complex Network Approach”, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Volume 47, Issue 1, January, Pages 17-29, 2010.

Ghaffari, H.O., M. Sharifzadeh ,K .Shahriar and W. Pedrycz, “Application  of  Soft  Granulation  Theory  to  Permeability  Analysis “, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Volume 46, Issue 3, , Pages 577-589, 2009.