Dr. Aglaja Blanke
Building
E,
Room
325 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Function and Responsibilities:
- Geoscientist - Seismologist
- ICDP Panel Coordination
- Organization of the seminar series "SeismoMechanics Seminar" at GFZ Potsdam
Research Interests:
- Coda Q analysis (attenuation)
- Stress drop variability
- Seismic source parameters
- Analysis of acoustic emission signals from laboratory experiments
- Volcano seismology
Career:
- Since 2023: Panel coordination within the ICDP (International Continental Scientific Drilling Program).
- Since 2021: Postdoc at GFZ Potsdam, Section 4.2 Geomechanics and Scientific Drilling.
- June 2017-2021: PhD student at GFZ Potsdam, Section 4.2 Geomechanics and Scientific Drilling.
- 2016 - May 2017: Student assistant at GFZ Potsdam, former Section 4.2 Geomechanics and Rheology.
- Mai 2012 - Oktober 2013: Student assistant at Free University Berlin, department Geophysics.
Education:
- 2021 Dr. rer. nat.: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Title of dissertation: "Stress drop variability: Implications for earthquake rupture processes, scaling relations, and seismic ground motions".
- Peter Bormann Young Seismologist Training Course (YSTC), Malta, August 2018.
- IS-EPOS Platform Workshop, GFZ, Potsdam, May 2017.
- 2017 M.Sc. Geological Sciences (focus on geophysics): Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Title of thesis: "Source mechanisms of shallow seismicity along the central Hellenic Volcanic Arc (HVA) and its relation to the local seismotectonic setting".
- 2014 B.Sc. Geological Sciences: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Title of thesis: "Analyse räumlicher und zeitlicher Signaturen lokaler Seismizität in Nordchile". (Translation: Spatio-temporal analysis of the local seismicity in northern Chile)
Projects:
- Since Nov. 2022: Geo-INQUIRE (Geosphere INfrastructures for QUestions into Integrated Research)
- Since Sept. 2020: Principal Investigator of the IVOTED-Etna (Investigation of VOlcano-TEctonic Deformation at Etna) project at Mt. Etna, Sicily.
- Since 2020: EPOS-ERIC (European Plate Observing System - European Research Infrastructure Consortium): Leader of Section for Episodes Integration and Application Implementation of the TCS AH (Thematic Core Service Anthropogenic Hazards).
- Since Dec. 2019: SiC nano for PicoGeo (Silicon Carbide optical nano-strainmeters for pico-detection in Geosciences) at Mt. Etna, Sicily.
- 2016 - 2019: EPOS-IP (European Plate Observing System - Implementation Phase): Organization and management of data sets for the Thematic Core Service "Anthropogenic Hazards".
Awards:
- SEG appreciation for “Volunteer Chair” of IGSC 2013 in Berlin, Germany.
- Best SEG Student Chapter Award 2013 for the student chapter “Student Geoscientific Society Berlin & Potsdam” (http://www.sgs-ev.org/de/index.htm).