Susannah
Dorfman
Graduate
Student - Geosciences
Department
of Geosciences
B85 Guyot Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: (609)
258-3594
E-Mail: 
Advisor: Thomas Duffy
Education
Ph.D. Candidate --- Department of Geosciences --- Princeton University --- Princeton, NJ
Advisor: Thomas Duffy
Committee members: Thomas Duffy, Guust Nolet, Frederik Simons, Satish Myneni
S.B. June 2005 --- Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences --- Massachusetts Institute of Technology --- Cambridge, MA
Senior Thesis "Permeability Modifying Processes: Thermal Cracking and Crack Healing"
Thesis Advisor: J. Brian Evans
Undergraduate Advisor: Timothy Grove
Honors and Awards
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention, 2006
- MIT EAPS 2005 Goetze Prize for Undergraduate Research
Research Experience
- 2006-present: Graduate student, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Mineral Physics Group
- 2004-2005: Undergraduate researcher, MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Rock Mechanics Laboratory
- 2002-2003: Undergraduate researcher, MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Department of Materials Science, Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology
Teaching Experience
- Fall 2007, Fall 2008: Preceptor, Princeton, GEO 207, A Guided Tour of the Solar System
- 2007-present: Volunteer Coach, Princeton Fencing
- Fall 2006-present: Assistant Coach, Mr. Ma Fencing USA
- Summer 2006: Teacher, MIT China Educational Technology Initiative, Geology/English
- 2005-2006: Assistant Coach, MIT Fencing
- November 2005: Volunteer, MIT Splash!, short course on crystallography
- Fall 2003: Teaching Assistant, MIT, 8.01S, Physics I with Sports
- Fall 2002, Fall 2005: Teaching Assistant, MIT, 18.01A-02A, Accelerated Calculus 1-2