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Dr. Andreas Höchner

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

Helmholtzstraße 7, H7 306
D-14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1927
Fax: +49 331 288 1204

Scientific interests:

  • Inversion of static and dynamic GPS data for earthquake mechanism

  • Tsunami early warning

  • Post- and interseismic deformation and geoid signatures

  • Synthetic earthquake- and tsunami databases


Projects:

  • GITEWS - German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System

  • TRIDEC - Collaborative, Complex and Critical Decision-Support in Evolving Crises
  • CEDIM - Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology

Career:

since 2011   

Postdoctoral researcher at GFZ Potsdam

2011       

Doctorate in geophysics, dissertation:
'GPS based analysis of earthquake induced phenomena at the Sunda Arc'

2006

PhD student at GFZ and University of Potsdam, Germany

2002

Diploma in theoretical physics at University of Zurich, Switzerland



  • Andreas Hoechner


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