Rate Professor Thomas Heaton

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Thomas Heaton received his BS from Indiana University in 1972 and his PhD from Caltech in 1978.

Research Interests: His work focuses on earthquake physics, seismic hazard analysis, and early warning systems.

Appointments: Professor of Geophysics at Caltech.

Awards: Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Publications: Key papers on earthquake rupture dynamics in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Additional Contributions: Heaton contributes to the development of the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system.