Inhaltsbereich
PD Dr. Sebastian Hainzl
Helmholtz Centre PotsdamGFZ 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 |

