Diana Roman has joined DTM as its newest Research Staff member in Geophysics.  A former Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of South Florida, Roman is one of the top young workers in the application of seismology to problems in volcanology.  After obtaining an undergraduate degree in applied economics from Cornell and spending two years in the financial industry, Roman turned to volcanology and enrolled in the M.S. and Ph.D. programs at the University of Oregon, under the mentorship of Kathy Cashman.  After graduation, Roman spent two years (2004-2006) on a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Leeds, in the volcanology group of Jurgen Neuberg, before joining USF four years ago.

Roman's work combines field experiments at active volcanoes with novel analysis methods to study the processes of magmatic transport beneath volcanic centers and the changes in those systems before, during, and after volcanic eruptions.  She applies a variety of tools in her studies, including the characterization of volcanotectonic earthquakes and their temporal changes, shear-wave splitting, and several geodetic methods for determining the surface strain field and its rate of change.  Roman was the recipient of the 2008 George Walker Award (given once every 2 years to recognize outstanding achievement in volcanology by a scientist under the age of 35) of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior.  At DTM, Roman will form immediate intellectual bridges with our ongoing programs in field seismology, borehole strainmeter observations at volcanic centers, and geochemical studies of magmatic rocks from continental and oceanic volcanoes.