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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Geophysics,Geology |
| Keywords | active tectonics, mountain building, remote sensing, Himalaya, Sumatra |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Pasadena |
| Institution | California Institute of Technology |
| Institute | Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Onno Oncken | Department 4 Geosysteme, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam |
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| Prof. Dr. Georg Dresen | Sektion 4.2 Geomechanik und Wissenschaftliches Bohren, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2010 |
Program(s)
| 2010 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Avouac is one of the internationally leading scientists in the field of geodynamics with an emphasis on active tectonics. His topic is the link between method development dedicated to the analysis of active deformation of the Earth's crust and earthquakes, climate-driven processes and landscape evolution. He has laid the foundations in several fields developing the methods currently relevant in this subject. During his stay in Germany, he intends to expand his most recent field of research, the deformation processes and mechanical aspects of very large earthquakes at Earth's plate boundaries. |