Staff

Function and Responsibilities:

Postdoctoral researcher

Research Interests:

I am generally interested in lithosphere dynamics, plate tectonics, surface processes and their intricate links. Currently, I am working on the role of crustal and lithospheric scale inheritance (structural, rheological or thermal) and its effects on subsequent phases of deformation (rifting or orogeny). I am largely process oriented and I mainly use (and develop) numerical modelling tools.

Some of my recent publications:

Erdős, Z., Buiter, S. J. H., and Tetreault, J., 2025a, The influence of accretionary orogenesis on subsequent rift dynamics: Solid Earth, v. 16, no. 9, p. 841-863, 10.5194/se-16-841-2025.

Erdős, Z., Buiter, S. J. H., and Tetreault, J., 2025b, The Role of Microcontinent Strength and Basal Detachment in Accretionary Orogenesis: Insights From Numerical Models: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 130, no. 4, 10.1029/2024jb029509.

Erdős, Z., Huismans, R. S., Wolf, S. G., and Faccenna, C., 2025c, Terrane accretion explains thin and hot ocean-continent back-arcs: Sci Adv, v. 11, no. 17, p. eadq8444, 10.1126/sciadv.adq8444.

Erdős, Z., S. Buiter, and T. Joya (2024), Exploring the accretion of multiple microcontinents using numerical models, in ESS Open Archive, edited, doi:10.22541/essoar.171629621.10603551/v1.

Erdős, Z., R. S. Huismans and C. Faccenna (2022) Wide versus narrow back-arc rifting: control of subduction velocity and convective back-arc thinning, Tectonics, 41, doi:10.1029/2021TC006795

Career:

2021 -             Postdoctoral researcher at RWTH Aachen/GFZ Potsdam, Germany

                       Research topic: Numerical modeling of rift processes

                       Teaching: co-developing and co-teaching Master’s level courses

                       Supervision: co-supervising a Master’s and a PhD student

2019 - 2020    Research fellow at Geological and Geophysical Institute of Hungary, Sopron

                       Research topic: Exploring the role of pargasite in lithosphere dynamics

2016 - 2019    Postdoctoral fellow at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

                     Research topic: Numerical modelling of back-arc rifting Principal Investigator

                     Teaching: Developing course content and teaching several Master’s and Bachelor’s level courses and co-organizing field courses

                     Supervision: 3 Master’s students and 4 Bachelor’s students

2015 - 2016    Research fellow at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

                     Research topic: Modelling lithospheric flexure in the Pannonian basin

                     Teaching: Co-teaching one Master’s level course

2009 - 2014    Junior research fellow at University of Bergen, Norway and at Université Grenoble Alpes, France

                       Research topic: Studying the effects of surface-processes and extensional inheritance on the structural style of mountain building

                     Teaching: Assisting Master’s and Bachelor’s level courses

Education:

2009 - 2014    PhD in Structural Geology                         UiB, Norway and UJF, France

                       Thesis: Coupled surface process and tectonic modelling of extension-inversion tectonics in the Pyrenees

2004 - 2009    Master's equivalent in Geophysics            Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

                       Thesis: Seismic coherence algorithms as a tool of improving the resolution of 3D seismic data