Staff

Function and Responsibilities:

I am a lecturer on Earth Physics at the University of Barcelona (Spain) and a long-term external collaborator in the group of Danijel Schormlemmer at GFZ, where I had spent both doctoral and posdoctoral stays, dealing with statistical analysis of earthquake catalogs and their use in probabilistic earthquake forecasting.

Together with Fabrice Cotton and Graeme Weatherill, I am a PhD advisor of Mario Arroyo at GFZ section 2.6, exploring the impact of slow-slip events on the probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for subduction zones.

Research Interests:

As part of my latest research at GFZ, I unveiled heterogeneities of the Global Centroid Moment Tensor Catalog, an analysis partially supported by the RISE project (on real-time earthquake risk reduction for a resilient Europe).

Currently I am working on unveiling cases of distant earthquake triggering using historical earthquake catalogs, and on better estimating the frequency of the largest earthquakes on Earth, building upon my earlier results spanning from laboratory to regional and global scale.

I have also collaborated with the Subsurface Process Modelling section of GFZ, on a thermal lithospheric model applied to undestanding the distribution of seismicity under the Caribean and NW South America.

For an extensive presentation about my past and present research, please have a look at my external webpage.

Awards:

National End-of-Degree Award in Geology (Ministry of Education and Science, Spain, 2002)

Extraordinary Award for Academic Achievement (Sciences Faculty, University of Zaragoza, Spain, 2001)