Bradley Paul Lipovsky

Curriculum vitae

Academic positions, research, publications, funding, mentoring, teaching, leadership, and service in field mechanics and geophysics.

Geophysicist · Educator · Research leader

Field experiments and mechanics of Earth-material failure.

Brad Lipovsky is an Assistant Professor in the University of Washington Department of Earth and Space Sciences and founder of the UW FiberLab. A modeler and field scientist, he combines dense fiber-optic sensing with mechanics to test how Earth materials fracture, deform, and fail in systems ranging from engineered hydraulic fractures to glacier beds, ice shelves, and ice–ocean boundaries.

  • 2020–Assistant Professor, University of Washington
  • 2017–20Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lecturer, and Research Associate, Harvard University
  • 2017PhD in Geophysics, Stanford University
  • 2011MS in Earth Science, University of California, Riverside
  • 2008BA in Mathematics, Cornell University