Staff

Research Interests:

• Geodynamics
• Geophysics
• Numerical modeling

Contact: sengul@gfz.de /   ebrusengul@gmail.com   / ebrusengul@comu.edu.tr   

Business hours: 24/7

Career:

Post-doctoral research fellow- GFZ-Potsdam, Germany — September 2024-present.
Post-doctoral research fellow- University of Toronto-Earth Sciences, Canada — March 2017-2018.
Assistant Professor- Geophysical Engineering, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkiye— 2017-present.

Education:

Ph.D. in Physics, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkiye.
M.Sc. in Geophysics, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkiye.
B.Sc. in Geophysical Engineering, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkiye.

Projects:

• Geodynamic analysis of intermediate-depth earthquakes: Investigation of the Hindu Kush, Vrancea and Antalya subduction zones with the 3D thermomechanical models (TUBITAK). Principal Investigator, September, 2024-present

Publication & Conference Paper Since September 2024:

Liu. X. et al. (2026). A tectonic pulse triggered by mantle injection through a torn slab. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2026.120161

Şengül Uluocak, E., Pysklywec, R. N., Faccenna, C., Schildgen, T. (2026). Anatomy of a post-subduction collision. - Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70008-y

Zhang, X., Chen, B., Pysklywec, R. N., Şengül Uluocak, E., & Liu, J. (2026). Small‐ and medium‐wavelength dynamic topography and active mantle flow in Eastern China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 131, e2025JB032000. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JB032000

Ballı, A., Göğüş, O.,   Şengül Uluocak, E., & van Hunen, J. (2025). Eclogite Induced Lithospheric Drips: Implications for the Removal of the Lithosphere at Magmatic Arcs and Orogens. Terra Nova. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.70008

Uluocak, E. Ş., Pysklywec, R. N., Sembroni, A., Brune, S., & Faccenna, C. (2024). The role of upper mantle forces in post-subduction tectonics: Plumelet and active rifting in the East Anatolian Plateau. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(9), e2024GC011639. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011639

Andersen, A. J., Göğüş, O. H., Pysklywec, R. N., Uluocak, E. Ş., & Santimano, T. (2024). Multistage lithospheric drips control active basin formation within an uplifting orogenic plateau. Nature Communications, 15(1), 7899. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52126-

Andersen, J., Pysklywec, R., Göğüş, O., Uluocak E. Ş., & Santimano, T. (2025). Multistage lithospheric drips control active basin formation in the Central Anatolian Plateau: insights from analogue and numerical modelling, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-13197, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-13197

Liu, X., Pysklywec, R., Göğüş, O., & Uluocak E. Ş. (2025). Transforming the Eastern Mediterranean: The Aegean-Cyprus Slab Tear, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-13603, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-13603

Schildgen, T., Faccenna, C., Jolivet, L., Ballato, P., Şengül Uluocak, E., Yıldırım, C., and Cosentino, D.: Slab Evolution in the Early Pliocene Establishment of the Modern Tectonic Regime in the Adria-Aegean-Anatolian Region, EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026, EGU26-11321, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-11321, 2026.