Staff
Prof. Dr.
Ameha Atnafu Muluneh
Research Interests:
I am a Geologist interested in kinematics, tectonics and geodynamics of continental rifts. I use data from numerical modeling, earthquake focal mechanism, paleomagnetism, GPS velocity vector and active faults to better understand deformation of lithospheric and crustal blocks. These researches are geared toward improving hazard models and resource explorations in the Main Ethiopian, Kenyan and Afar rifts.Career:
Researcher - 06.2024 - 11.2026, MARUM University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Alexander von Humboldt fellow, 12.2021 - 05.2024, GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Associate Professor, 09.2021 to 06.2024, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Assistant Professor, 2015-2021, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
PhD research fellow, 2010-2013, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Geologist, 2006-2010, Geological Survey of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Geologist, 2006, Transport Construction Share Company, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Education:
PhD- 2014 - Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, ItalyResearch Boards and Committees:
Editorial Board member - Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
Review editor - Solid Earth Geophysics, Frontiers in Earth Science
Reviewer for Nature Comm., Communications Earth & Environment - Nature, Geology, Tectonics, Scientific Reports, Global and Planetary change, Frontiers in Earth Science, Journal of African Earth Sciences, Scientific African, Geocarto International, Turkish Journal of Earth Science, Geospatial Information Science, Acta Geophysica
Associate editor for SINET-Ethiopian Journal of Science, 2019-2021
Awards:
- Full member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Honor Society - 2026
- DFG German Research Foundation, Research grant - 2023
- GSA International travel grant to attend GSA Connects 2022 Denver Colorado - 2022
- Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Forster fellowship for experienced researcher (host - Dr. Sascha Brune) - 2021
- Sapienza University PhD research scholarship (supervisor - Prof. Carlo Doglioni) - 2010