05/2026 - Present
Postdoc, École Normale Supérieure - PSL, Paris, France.
Profile
Mingqi Liu is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire de Géologie de l'École Normale Supérieure - PSL in Paris. His research aims to develop a unified, physics-based framework for lithospheric dynamics across timescales, linking long-term tectonic evolution with short-term earthquake rupture.
Using advanced 2D and 3D numerical modeling, constrained by laboratory experiments and geological and geophysical observations, he investigates how microphysical processes—such as grain-size evolution, fluid–melt transport, and thermally activated frictional healing—interact with lithosphere deformation and fault dynamics.
His research spans geodynamics, earthquake physics, numerical modeling, and planetary tectonics.
Appointments
Postdoc, École Normale Supérieure - PSL, Paris, France.
Postdoc, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.
Postdoc, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
Education
ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2018-2022. Advisor: Taras Gerya.
Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, 2015-2018. Advisor: Zhong-Hai Li.
Teaching & Mentoring
Co-supervise Ph.D. students at ETH Zurich, University of Southern California, and Texas A&M University.
Software
A MATLAB package for THERMO-baric BRIttle-viscous fault dynamics simulations.
An in-development Python package for post-processing and visualizing 2D/3D geodynamic models.