Prof. Liran Goren

We study how the Earth’s surface responds to the forces acting over it over exceptionally wide time and length scales. On short timescales of seconds to minutes, we examine how earthquake shaking induces hazardous soil liquefaction and accelerates landslides. On much longer timescales, we investigate how mountainous topography responds to and records the changing tectonic and climatic conditions that shape it.

Figure: Results from soil liquefaction simulations by Ben-Zeev et al. (2023), using a coupled Granular Dynamics – Computational Fluid Dynamics model (Goren et al., 2011), showing the progression of a porosity front which controls the changing liquefying domain under well-drained conditions.