Prof. Nadia Lapusta — Research Profile
California Institute of Technology · Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Graduate application deadlines
Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Mechanical Engineering (ME) — MS/PhD
Fall 2027Application deadline
Dec 15, 2026
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Source: mce.caltech.eduChecked Nov 2, 2026
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Prof. Nadia Lapusta at California Institute of Technology Mechanical and Civil Engineering lists fracture and frictional processes, computational mechanics, failure of geomaterials in the presence of fluids, physics of earthquakes, induced seismicity as their registered research area.
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