Radwin Askari

Biography

Radwin Askari is an Associate Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences at Michigan Tech, where he has been on the faculty since 2015. He received his PhD in geophysics from the University of Calgary.

His research spans geologic hydrogen, environmental geophysics, remote sensing, and fracture dynamics and induced seismicity. He combines laboratory physical modeling, numerical simulation, and field methods to better subsurface. He founded the Physical Modeling Laboratory, where his group studies how fluids move through fractured rock and the seismic signals they produce. His work appears in journals including JGR: Solid Earth, Geophysical Research Letters, Geophysics, and Geophysical Journal International.

He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. In 2026, as a Freeport-McMoRan Academic–Industry Mining Fellow, he developed machine-learning models of porphyry copper prospectivity for the western United States. He serves as an Associate Editor of Acta Geophysica, where he received the Springer Nature’s Editor of Distinction Award. He has advised more than 20 graduate students and welcomes inquiries from prospective students.