Meet the team

Principal Investigator

Voon Hui LAI
📧 voonhui.lai @ ntu.edu.sg

Current role
  ▪ Assistant Professor, Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University
  ▪ Principal Investigator, Earth Observatory of Singapore
  ▪ Associate Investigator, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science

Aacdemic training
  ▪ Research Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
  ▪ PhD, Geophysics, California Institute of Technology (2020)
  ▪ BA (Departmental Citation), Geophysics, University of California Berkeley (2014)

Field experience
  ▪ DAS deployments: NASA Deep Space Network (Canberra), ALIRT fibre (Melbourne city), Alpine Fault (New Zealand), Milford Sound (New Zealand)
  ▪ Broadband seismic deployments: Homestake Mines (South Dakota), offshore Cascadia
  ▪ Nodal seismic deployments: Lake George (Canberra), San Gabriel Basin (California)
  ▪ Active geophysical surveys: Camp Rock Fault (CA), San Andreas Fault (Carrizo Plains, CA)

Research Fellows and Associates

  ▪ Stay tuned!

PhD Students

  ▪ Stay tuned!

Visiting Student

  ▪ PhD Candidate Yujie Wang visting from IGGCAS China (Spring 2026)