GFZ German research centre for geo sciences

Dr. Gesa Petersen

Gesa Petersen
Building H 7, Room 202 (Büro)
Helmholtzstraße 6/7
14467 Potsdam

Research Interests:

  • Moment tensor inversion
  • Regional seismicity & Earthquake swarms
  • Machine Learning/ Deep Learning/ Clustering
  • Array Seismology

Career:

  • 2023-today: PostDoc, GFZ, AlpArray project
  • 2022: PostDoc & Duty-Seismologist, University of Utah, USA
  • 2017-2021: PreDoc & PostDoc, GFZ, AlpArray project

Education:

  • 2017-2021: Dr. rer. nat., Geophysics, GFZ & Univ. Potsdam (thesis: Source studies of small earthquakes in the AlpArray: CMT inversion, seismo-tectonic analysis and methodological developments.
  • 2014-2017: M.Sc., Geosciences, Univ. Potsdam (thesis: Source array and receiver array analysis of Vogtland/ West Bohemia earthquake clusters)
  • 2013-2014: Erasmus Exchange Semester, Uppsala Univ., Sweden
  • 2011-2014: B.Sc., Geosciences, Univ. Potsdam (thesis: Auswertung von T-Phasen Beobachtungen im DOCTAR Experiment)

Projects:

Waveform-based clustering of earthquakes:
From Top to Bottom - Seismicity, Motion Patterns & Stress Distribution in the Alpine Crust (Mountain Building Processes in Four Dimensions (4D-MB), AlpArray)

Seismic swarms in the transition between Basin-and-Range and Colorado Plateau, Utah (US)

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