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PD Dr. Sebastian Hainzl

Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section 2.1, Earthquake Risk and Early Warning

Helmholtzstraße 7, H7 302
D-14467 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1897
Fax: +49 331 288 1204
Mail: sebastian.hainzl@gfz-potsdam.de

Scientific interests:

Earthquake rupture processes, fault interactions, seismic hazard assessment, self-organized criticality, pattern recognition and statistical evaluation

Projects:

Ongoing Projects:

  • GFZ-Universität Potsdam graduate school “Natural Disasters: Generation, Propagation, and Impacts”
  • DFG-project “Virtual Lower Rhine Embayment”
  • Graduate school “Explorative Simulation in Earth Sciences (GEOSIM)”
  • EU-project NERA-NA4 “Networking European Rapid Response Networks”
  • Partner of the INGV-project “ByMur – multi-risk with Bayesian approach”
  • Partner of the Uni-Hamburg Junior-Research Group “Mining Environments (MINE)”

Career:

2011 Habilitation in Geophysics (University of Potsdam)
1995-1999 Dr. rer. nat. in Nonlinear Dynamics (Univ. Potsdam, summa cum laude)
1988-1995 Diploma Physics (University of Bonn, summa cum laude)
1988-1990 Vordiplom Physics (University of Kassel)

Experience:

since 2011 "Privat-Dozent" at Uni Potsdam
since 2007 Researcher at GFZ (Potsdam)
2004-2007 Hochschulassistent with Prof. F. Scherbaum (Geophysics, Univ. Potsdam)
2001-2004 Post-doctoral research associate (Univ. Potsdam, DFG SCH280/13)
1999-2001 Post-doctoral research associate (Univ. Potsdam, SFB 555)

Teaching Experience:
  • Fracture dynamics
  • Mathematical Problems in Geophysics
  • Complex Systems in Geophysics and Geology
  • Seismology II: Seismic Hazard
  • Advanced Methods in Signal Processing

Conference Organization (EGU, ESC, ESF, and statistical seismology)

Editorial Experience:
  • guest editor of 2 special issues in Tectonophysics
  • reviewer of several scientific journals and national/international science foundations

Awards:

2009 Outstanding GJI Reviewer
2005 Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing of the American Geopysical Union
2005 AGU Journal Highlight: Zöller, Hainzl, Holschneider & Ben-Zion,
Aftershocks resulting from creeping sections in a heterogeneous fault,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L03308, doi 10.1029/2004GL021871 (2005)
2001 Award of the Universitätsgesellschaft for the best Ph.D. 1999/2000 at the University of Potsdam


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