Dr. Patricia Martinez Garzon
Building
D,
Room
420 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Function and Responsibilities:
Leader of "Slip Transients" working group within Section 4.2
PI of ERC-Starting Grant QUAKE Hunter (from March 2023)
co-PI of GFZ Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) Turkey
PI of Helmholtz Young Investigators Group SAIDAN (from January 2018)
Sub-topic Speaker within PoF-IV program, Topic 3.2 "Detection of preparatory phases of hazardous events"
Research Interests:
- Physics of earthquakes: how do they initiate, propagate and stop
- Deformation mechanisms on faults, (particularly on transform faults)
- The interplay between seismic and aseismic deformation and how does it affect seismic hazard
- Characterization of the stress field
- Fluid-induced seismicity (geothermal and hydrocarbon reservoirs, CO2 storage)
- Integrating experimental work to better understand our observations from natur
- Reservoir geomechanics
Career:
September 2010:Physics Degree (five years degree).
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).
June 2011:
Master in Geophysics and Meteorology (two years).
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).
Final Master Thesis: “Dynamic deformations from seismicity near the Itoiz Reservoir, Northern Spain”.
July 2014:
PhD at GeoForschung Zentrum Potsdam GFZ in the frame of the HAI program.
Thesis title: Seismo-mechanical reservoir characterization from fluid-induced seismicity
Supervisor: Prof. Marco Bohnhoff
September 2014 - December 2017:
Postdoc at GeoForschung Zentrum Potsdam GFZ in the frame of the Helmholtz Postdoc Programme
Since January 2018:
Principal Investigator of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group "SAIDAN: Seismic and Aseismic deformation in the brittle crust: Implications for anthropogenic and natural hazard"
Since March 2023:
Principal Investigator of the ERC-Starting Grant project "QUAKEHUNTER: Real time monitoring of earthquake nucleation for faults near urban areas"
Projects:
- SAIDAN:Seismic and Aseismic Deformation in the brittle crust: from Anthropogenic to natural hazard
- Helmholtz Postdoc Programme: "Earthquake Hazard due to reservoir stimulation: A geomechanical study linking hazard and induced seismicity".
- Induced seismicity at The Geysers geothermal field: Analysis of spatiotemporal variations in the seismicity and stress field related to fluid injection and extraction.
- Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative (HAI): Analysis of induced seismicity related to CO2 storage and laboratory experiments on CO2 saturated samples.
- Geophysical Observatory North Anatolian Fault (GONAF): Participation in management and field drilling work.
Awards:
Best Student Presentation Award (May 2014), Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America, Anchorage, Alaska.
Best dissertation of the year at GFZ Potsdam (October 2014). Association of Friends and Sponsors of the GFZ, Potsdam, Germany.