Voon Hui Lai

Hello! Welcome to my page. A little bit about myself: I'm an observational seismologist. My research interests include (1) advancing seismic knowledge towards building resilience against natural hazards and environmental changes; and (2) understanding the interconnectedness between Earth's systems. I deploy seismic arrays and perform waveform modeling (e.g., seismic source inversion, waveform simulation) to record seismic waves and reveal how waveform complexities are results of dynamic source processes and fine-scale structural heterogeneities.

My research journey has taken me to explore many intriguing problems including modeling volcanic sources and debris flows, simulating ground motion in sedimentary basins, connecting deep earth processes to their mineral composition, and understanding how solid earth-atmospheric waves couple. Presently as postdoctoral fellow at ANU-RSES, I use Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), a new generation fibre-optics based seismic array, to transform how we perform high resolution subsurface and source characterizations, at places from rural outbacks to urban metropolitans.

Feel free to browse around and please email regarding any enquiries. Apologies in advance if some pages are out-of-date, as I have found myself spending my free time learning about Australian wildlifes, instead of curating webpages.

Left: Local earthquake and traffic noise recorded on DAS array in Melbourne;
Right: Performing tap test to calibrate DAS array

Contact Info

Email: voonhui.lai @ anu.edu.au
Work website: ANU-RSES webpage


Address:
Research School of Earth Sciences
142 Mills Road
The Australian National University
Acton, ACT 2601
Australia