Curriculum Vitae
Aug 2023, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA
Education
2023
2016
2014
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, Geosciences
M.Sc. National Taiwan University, Geosciences
B.Sc. National Taiwan University, Geosciences
Selected Professional Experience
2023-2025
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
Supervisor: Harold Tobin
2018-2023
GraduateResearch and Teaching Assistant, Pennsylvania State University
Advisor: Donald Fisher
Project: The Record of Mass Transfer in Ancient Accretionary Prisms and Its Role in Fault Behavior
2017-2018
Research Assistant, Ocean Center, National Taiwan University
Supervisor: Char-Shine Liu
Project: Taiwan-US and Taiwan-Germany collaborative research on high-resolution seafloor observation and precision sampling of gas hydrate reservoir systems offshore Southwestern Taiwan
2014-2016
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, National Taiwan University
Advisor: Jyr-Ching Hu
Project: Structural Evolution and Potential for Fracture Development of Chinshui Anticline in Miaoli Area, Taiwan
2012
Summer Intern, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Advisor: Ban-Yuan Kuo; Justin Yen-Ting Ko
Project: Variations of Attenuation in the Triple Junction, South Honshu
2026-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Ledeczi, A. M.*, Tobin, H. J., Chen, T. -W., Mulcahy, S. R., & Condit, C. B. (2025). Structure and properties of the Cascadia plate interface: Evidence from a newly described exhumed paleomegathrust in the Olympic Subduction Complex. GSA Bulletin, 138(3-4), 1453–1468.
https://doi.org/10.1130/B38335.1
Chen, T. -W.*, Smye, A. J., Lloyd, M. K., Fisher, D. M., & Hashimoto, Y. (2024). Temperature of Vein Formation Associated with Plate Interface Deformation Constrained by Oxygen and Clumped Isotope Thermometry. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25, e2024GC011516. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011516
Chen, T. -W.*, Affinito, R. A., Marone, C. J., Fisher, D. M., Smye, A. J., & Hashimoto, Y. (2024). Frictional Properties and Healing Behavior of Tectonic Mélanges: Implications for the Evolution of Subduction Fault Zones. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(6), e2023JB028472. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028472
Chen, T. -W.*, Smye, A. J., Fisher, D. M., Hashimoto, Y., Raimbourg, H., & Famin, V. (2024). Quantifying Interseismic Volume Strain from Chemical Mass-Balance Analysis in Tectonic Mélanges. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25, e2023GC011241. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011241
Fisher, D. M.*, Hooker, J. N., Smye, A. J., & Chen, T. -W. (2021). Insights from the geological record of deformation along the subduction interface at depths of seismogenesis. Geosphere, 17(6), 1686-1703. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02389.1
Manuscripts Under Review / In Revision
Chen, T.-W.*, Tobin, H. J., & Ledeczi, A. M. (in review). Heterogeneous elastic properties of subduction fault zones: Laboratory insights from a Cascadia megathrust analog. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
Ledeczi, A. M.*, Tobin, H. J., Condit, C. B., Chen, T.-W., Lindquist, P. C., García-Lasanta, C., Housen, B. A, & Mulcahy, S. R.(in revision). Off-fault mélange formation accommodates only a small fraction of strain in the subduction seismogenic zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Awards and Honors
2023
2022
2021
2020
Graduate Colloquium 3rd place talk, Pennsylvania State Geosciences
GSA Graduate Student Research Grants, Geological Society of America
Graduate Colloquium 3rd place poster, Pennsylvania State Geosciences
GSA Graduate Student Research Grants, Geological Society of America
Penn State Geosciences graduate fellowships:
Charles E. Knopf, Sr. Memorial Scholarship (2019), Shell Research Facilitation Award (2020, 2022, 2023), Paul D. Krynine Award (2021, 2022)
2016
2014
Outstanding Student Poster Award, Taiwan Geosciences Assembly
Dean’s Award of College of Science, National Taiwan University
Recent Conference Presentation
Chen, T. -W., Tobin, H. J., & Ledeczi, A. M. (2025). Heterogeneous Elastic Properties of Subduction Fault Zones: Laboratory Insights from a Cascadia Megathrust Analog. Paper presented at International Joint Workshop on Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes, Kochi, Japan
Chen, T. -W., Ledeczi, A. M., Tobin, H. J., & Huntington, K. W. (2025). Structural and Fluid Processes in the Cascadia Subduction Zone: Vein Analysis in the Olympic Subduction Complex. Paper presented at Fluids in Cascadia Topical Workshop, Portland, OR
Chen, T. -W., Tobin, H., & Ledeczi, A. (2024). Vein in the Olympic subduction complex: implications for the stress field in the paleo-Cascadia accretionary wedge. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 56, no. 5, https://doi.org/ 10.1130/abs/2024AM-402176
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