4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109A NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow is not an employee of any office or agency. The fellow has a guest appointment at JPL. ORAU currently administers the appointment.
Niloufar Abolfathian is interested in combining theoretical, observational, and computational methods to come up with a better understanding of earthquake physics, fault mechanics, and further earthquake likelihood and seismic hazard analysis. She studies the state of the stress and strain in fault zone area, and the associated earthquake fault processes and crustal deformations.