{"id":11,"date":"2018-04-18T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/myportfolio\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:54:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8770\/2024\/05\/head_shot-300x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8770\/2024\/05\/head_shot-300x270.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8770\/2024\/05\/head_shot-1024x921.png 1024w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8770\/2024\/05\/head_shot-768x690.png 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8770\/2024\/05\/head_shot.png 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hello! I am Tianhaozhe Sun \u2013 you can call me \u201cTian\u201d for short (as all my friends do!).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am a geophysicist interested in tectonic and geodynamic processes at plate boundaries, especially subduction zones. I study earthquakes, slow slip events, and related geohazards such as tsunamis. I try to combine cutting-edge observations (e.g., seafloor geodesy, borehole observatories) and numerical modelling to study how various geological and physical processes interact in governing fault mechanics, subduction forearc deformation and fluid flow, and large-scale crustal deformation over earthquake cycles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PhD, University of Victoria, 2017<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BSc, Tongji University, 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Academic positions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2023- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Victoria<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2019- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2017-2019 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Postdoctoral Scholar, Pennsylvania State University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I am Tianhaozhe Sun \u2013 you can call me \u201cTian\u201d for short (as all my friends do!). I am a geophysicist interested in tectonic and geodynamic processes at plate boundaries, especially subduction zones. I study earthquakes, slow slip events, and related geohazards such as tsunamis. I try to combine cutting-edge observations (e.g., seafloor geodesy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20036,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/tsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}