2025–
Doktorand, Geophysics
University of Potsdam
Supervisors: Sascha Brune, Judith Bott, Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth
Education
2024
M.Sc., Earth Sciences
University of Toronto
Supervisor: Phil Heron
2023
Hon. B.Sc., Environmental Physics (Co-op)
University of Toronto
Graduated with High Distinction
Career
09/2024–
Doctoral Researcher, Subsurface Process Modelling
GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
05/2022–08/2024
Research Assistant, Geodynamic Modelling
Phil Heron, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
05/2021–12/2021
Research Assistant, GIS and Glacial Geology
Nick Eyles, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Publications
Yu, A. J.*, Gün, E., McCaffrey, K. J. W., and Heron, P. J. (2025). A recipe for exotic continental fragment formation: Key constraints from numerical rift models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(10): e2024JB030041. doi:10.1029/2024JB030041. From MSc thesis.
Yu, A. J.*, Eyles, N., Doughty, M., and Bukhari, S. (2023). Seismic reflection stratigraphy of Lac Simard, Quebec, Canada: mass flow sedimentation in glacial Lake Barlow-Ojibway. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 60(11): 1509–1529. doi:10.1139/cjes-2023-0027. From BSc project. [Request author copy]
]Heron, P. J., Peace, A. L., McCaffrey, K. J. W., Sharif, A., Yu, A. J., and Pysklywec, R. N. (2023). Stranding continental crustal fragments during continent breakup: Mantle suture reactivation in the Nain Province of Eastern Canada. Geology, 51(4): 362–365. doi:10.1130/G50734.1