Sophie Johnson

Research areas

I am in Dr. Cailey Condit’s Structural Petrology of the Lithosphere group, and my research aims to expand our understanding of middle to lower continental crustal strength, particularly within thermotectonically dynamic cordilleran arcs and strike slip fault zones. Collaboration is important to me and I am grateful to collaborate with Drs. Mauricio Ibañez-Mejia and Rachel Bernard on the Colombian xenolith project, Dr. Maddie Lewis on the central Sierra Nevada project, Dr. Drew Levy on the Great Common Fault Zone project, and Dr. George Bergantz on connecting observations grounded in the natural rock record to first principles geomechanics.