Assistant Professor Sunyoung Park

Sunyoung Park

  • Title: Assistant Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences
  • Education: Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech; PhD, Harvard University; MS, Seoul National University; BS/BA, Seoul National University
  • Joined UChicago faculty: 2021
  • sunnypark@uchicago.edu

Sunyoung Park

Sunyoung Park is a geophysicist with a wide range of interests in seismology, including the Earth’s internal structure, from the surface to the core; earthquake rupture processes; and seismic hazard assessment. Her work focuses on the development of new analytical and experimental approaches. For example, she is utilizing 3D printing for the first time to build physical models of the Earth structure to perform seismic experiments for investigating wave propagation in complex media.

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Expertise

Seismology

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