Liang Xue, Project Scientist working with Dean Estella Atekwana in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, is part of the DRIAR (Dry Rifting in the Albertine-Rhino Graben) project—an international collaboration focused on understanding magma-poor continental rifting. His research combines geophysical observations with numerical models.

Dana Raed Al-Hindi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, specializing in population and quantitative genetics. Her research aims to characterize pre- and post-European-contact population structure within South Africa, as well as identifying novel genomic regions contributing to skin pigmentation variation among individuals with high Khoe-San ancestry.

Magali Billen, PhD is a Professor and Department Chair of Earth and Planetary Sciences and a previous HPC Facility Advisory Committee member. Her research focuses on using finite element models to study deformation within the Earth, particularly in subduction zones where one tectonic plate sinks into the mantle beneath another tectonic plate.