Research interest are the study of tectonic and geodynamic processes, especially at:

• plate boundaries/shear zones

• plumes/hot spots

by analyzing the seismic wave field, from active seismics and passive seismology recorded at permanent and temporary seismic arrays, and the integrative interpretation of these results together with other geoscientific disciplines.

Another focus of my research is the development of seismic methods (wave propagation  in inhomogeneous media, array techniques, migration, anisotropy, tomography, borehole seismics).

An applied aspect of my work is the study of shale gas, CO2 sequestration and geothermal reservoirs, using different geophysical methods.

• Since 2009 SAMPLE - South Atlantic Margin, Processes and links with Onshore Evoluition, Co-Coordinator: M. Weber

• Since 2006 DESIRE - GEO scientific DEAD SEA Integrated Research Project, Coordinator: M. Weber

• 2005 - 2007 3D Scattering imaging of the SAF - (ICDP/KTB)
  T.Ryberg, F. Scherbaum  &   M. Weber

• 2003 - 2006 Imaging the San Andreas Fault - MT – DEEPROOT (ICDP/KTB)
  O. Ritter & M. Weber

• 2000 - 2005 DESERT: The DEad SEa Rift Transect
  M. Weber & 7 German & 4 Israeli, Jordan, Palestine applicants

• 1999 – 2003 The teleseismic study of the Hawaii Plume (ICDP/KTB)
  R. Kind & M. Weber.

• 1997 – 2003 The Eifel Plume project
  U. Christensen (Univ. Göttingen) & 6 applicants

• 1997 – 2000 The structure of the deep interior of the Earth (Earth core) derived from data of the GRSN
  J. Schlittenhardt (BGR), F. Scherbaum (Univ. Potsdam) & M. Weber

• 1997 – 2000 Deep seismic laboratory in KTB/ICDP : The structure of the upper crust and the absorption of the inner core of the Earth
  G. Borm (GFZ), F. Scherbaum (Univ. Potsdam) & M. Weber

• Since 2009 Seismic tomography algorithmus for fundamental and applied purposes,     Helmholtz - Russia Joint Research Group, Coordinator: M. Weber

• 2004 - 2005 DEutscher Pool für Amphibische Seismologie – Landteil (DEPAS-LA)
  M. Weber &  A. Schulze

• 2001 - 2004 Gas Hydrates (Mallik)
  M. Weber, J. Erzinger, R. Emmermann & E. Huenges

• Since 2005 Integrated Geophysical Exploration Technologies for deep fractured geothermal systems
  M. Weber, A. Schulze, O. Ritter (part of larger proposal headed by E. Huenges, GFZ)

• 2002 -2004 Seismic monitoring of fluid injection at a geothermal site (Gross-Schönebeck/Brandenburg) (part of a larger project)
  A. Schulze, M. Weber, E. Huenges & T. Ryberg

• 2001 Gas hydrates (Mallik)
  S.R. Dallimore (Geol. Surv. Canada), T.S. Collett (USGS), T. Uchida (Japan Petrol Explor. Comp.) & M. Weber

• 2001 DESERT: The DEad SEa Rift Transect
  M. Weber

• since 04/1998 Professor of geophysics at the Universität Potsdam, Germany.

• since 01/1998 Head of the section “Deep Seismic Sounding” at the GFZ in Potsdam with the “Geophysical Instrument Pool Potsdam”.

• 07/1994 - 12/1997 Assistant professor and head of the seismology group at the Institut für Geophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.

• 06/1994 Habilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany; Analysis of inhomogeneities in the lower-most mantle with seismic methods.

• 1993 – 1994 Research scientist at the GFZ Potsdam; Study of crust and upper mantle with precursors of PP-phases.

• 1991 – 1994 Lecturer for geophysics at the Institut für Allgemeine und Angewandte Geophysik, Universität München.

• 1987 – 1994 Observatory seismologist at the Seismologisches Zentralobservatorium Gräfenberg (SZGRF), Erlangen, Germany.

• 1991 – 1993 Consultant for Teledyne Geotech, Washington DC, USA.

• 1989 – 1993 Research scientist at the SZGRF; Analysis of the 3-D structure of the Earth using GRF-Array data

• 1987 – 1989 Research scientist at the Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik, Universität Frankfurt/M., Germany; Gaussian beam seismograms for laterally variable models of the Earth’s mantle.

• 1983 – 1986 Ph.D. student in geophysics at Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik, Universität Frankfurt/M; The Gaussian beam method for the computation of synthetic seismograms in absorbing inhomo-geneous media: test and application.

• 1982 – 1983 Graduate student (M.Sc.) in geophysics at Department of Geo-physics, University of Toronto, Canada; The Gaussian beam method in seismology.

• 1981 – 1983 Study of geophysics at the University of Toronto, Canada.

• 1980 – 1981 Diploma student in physics/geophysics, Institut für Informations-verarbeitung, Universität Tübingen, Germany; Singularity theory for the study of layered media.

• 1974 – 1981 Study of physics at the Universität Tübingen.

• Young Scientists’ Publication Award 1991 of the European Geophysical Society (EGS)“ for the most outstanding contribution in the scientific journals of the EGS in 1990” for Evidence of a laterally variable lower mantle structure from P- and S-waves, Geophys. J. Int., 102, 231-255, 1990 (Co-author: J.P. Davis).

• Award of the German Geophysical Society for the presentation at the 49th Meeting of the German Geophysical Society, 1989”: Subduction zones – Their influence on travel times and amplitudes of seismic signals.

• Scholarship of the World University Service of Canada, 1982 - 1983.

• Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service, 1981 - 1982.