Wissenschaftliche Interessen:

Earthquake cycle of subduction megathrusts and upper plate deformation pattern

Linking short- to long-term deformation 

Seismotectonics of active faults

Laboratory experiments and high spatial-resolution techniques to link deformation mechanisms

Integrated approach (from satellite data to lab experiments) for unwrapping complex slip behavior

Publication

    F. Zwaan, A. Muluneh, J. Liu, E. Kosari, M. Rosenau, G. Corti, F. Sani; Simultaneous deformation along the Main Ethiopian Rift and associated transversal lineaments: an analogue modelling perspective; Preprint, DOI: https://doi.org/10.31223/X5PX2P

    J. Liu, M. Rosenau, S. Brune, E. Kosari, M. Rudolf, O. Oncken, 2024; Fault networks in triaxial tectonic settings: Analog modeling of distributed continental extension with lateral shortening; Tectonics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC008127

    E. Kosari, M. Rosenau, S. Metzger, O. Oncken, 2023; Along-strike seismotectonic segmentation reflecting megathrust seismogenic behavior; Geology  https://doi.org/10.1130/G51115.1 

    E Kosari, M Rosenau, T Ziegenhagen, O Oncken, 2022; Upper plate response to a sequential elastic rebound and slab acceleration during laboratory-scale subduction megathrust earthquakes; JGR: Solid Earth, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024143 

    E Kosari, M Rosenau, O Oncken, 2022; Strain signals governed by frictional-elastoplastic interaction of the upper plate and shallow subduction megathrust interface over seismic cycles; Tectonics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC007099 

    E Kosari, M Rosenau, J Bedford, M Rudolf, O Oncken, 2020; On the relationship between offshore geodetic coverage and slip model uncertainty: Analog megathrust earthquake case studies; Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088266

    Elena Savidge, Edwin Nissen, Majid Nemati, Ezgi Karasözen, James Hollingsworth, Morteza Talebian, Eric Bergman, Abdolreza Ghods, Manouchehr Ghorashi, Ehsan Kosari, Ahmad  Rashidi, Ali Rashidi; 2019; The December 2017 Hojedk (Iran) earthquake triplet—sequential rupture of shallow reverse faults in a strike-slip restraining bend; Geophysical Journal International. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz053

    Talebian, M., Ghorashi, M., Kosari, E. (2019). Geomorphology and faulting mechanism of 1-12 December 2017, Hojedk earthquakes. Journal of Geoscience, 28(110), 247-254. doi:10.22071/gsj.2019.84475

    Shafiei, A., B Dusseault, M., Kosari, E. and N Taleghani, M., 2018. Natural Fractures Characterization and In Situ Stresses Inference in a Carbonate Reservoir—An Integrated Approach. Energies, 11(2), p.312. DOI: 10.3390/en11020312

    Kosari et al, 2017, An integrated approach to study the impact of fracture distribution on the Ilam-Sarvak carbonate reservoirs: A case study from the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 152, pp.104-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2017.03.001

    Kosari et al, 2017, Study of the relation between fault and fracture systems based on subsurface data and analogue modeling: one of the Eastern Persian Gulf hydrocarbon fields. doi: 10.22071/GSJ.2017.53939

    Kosari et al, 2015, Fracture characterization by fusion of geophysical and geomechanical data: a case study from the Asmari reservoir, the Central Zagros fold-thrust belt, J. Geophys.Eng. 12 (2015) 130–143. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-2132/12/1/130