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Profile
| Academic position | Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader |
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| Research fields | Geophysics,Geodesy |
| Keywords | Afar Rift, Tectonics, Geodynamics, Earthquake, Strain Accommodations |
| Honours and awards | 2023: German Research Foundation, DFG 2022: Geological Society of America, International travel grant, Denver, Colorado, USA 2020: Africa Award for Research Excellence in Earth Sciences, American Geophysical Union 2020: Africa-Oxford collaborative research, University of Oxford, UK 2019: Young Leader, Science and Technology for Society (STS) forum, Kyoto, Japan 2018: Canon Foundation-Kyoto University Japan-Africa exchange program, Kyoto, Japan 2018: TWAS-DFG cooperation visit to GFZ Potsdam, Germany 2016: USAID-NAS sponsered visit to University of Rochester, New York, USA 2013: American Geophysical Union, Student travel grant, San Francisco, USA |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Bremen |
| Institution | Universität Bremen |
| Institute | Zentrum für Marine Umweltwissenschaften (MARUM) |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Sascha Brune | Section 2.5, Geodynamic Modelling, GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung, Potsdam |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/12/2021 |
Programme(s)
| 2021 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | Giacomo Corti, Ameha Muluneh, D. Sarah Stamps, Derek Keir, Illaria Isola, Francesco Mazzarini, Sascha Brune, Daniele Maestrelli: Control of Gravitational Potential Energy on the distribution of off-rift volcanic activity in the Turkana depression, East African Rift. In: Geophysical Research Letters, 2025, |
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| 2025 | Frank Zwaan, Ameha Atnafu Muluneh, Jun Liu, Ehsan Kosari, Matthias Rosenau, Giacomo Corti, and Federico Sani Local Strain Reorientation Explains Deformation of Rift-oblique Tectonic Lineaments Along the Main Ethiopian Rift. In: Tektonika, 2025, |
| 2024 | Maestrelli, D. and Sani, F. and Keir, D. and Pagli, C. and La Rosa, A. and Muluneh, Ameha and Brune, S. and Corti, G.: Reconciling plate motion and faulting at a rift-rift-rift triple junction. In: Geology, 2024, |
| 2024 | Ameha A. Muluneh, and Brune, S. and Pagli, C. and La Rosa, A and Keir, D. and Neuharth, D. and Corti, G.: To rotate or to link? The connection between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden rifts in central Afar. In: Geophysical Research Letter, 2024, |
| 2023 | A.Z. Tadesse and G. Bedassa, and M. Kervyn, and Ameha A. Muluneh, and S. Gudbrandsson, and G. Yirgu, D. and Ayalew D. and Karen Fontijn: Structural controls on magma pathways in Bora-Baricha-Tullu Moye volcanic system, Main Ethiopian Rift. In: Volcanica, 6, 2023, 367-390 |
| 2023 | Nigussie W. and Alemu, A and Mickus, K and Keir, D. and Demissie, Z. and Muhabaw, Y. and Muluneh, Ameha and Corti, G. and Yehualaw, E. Subsurface structural control of geothermal resources in a magmatic rift: gravity and magnetic study of the Tulu Moye geothermal prospect, Main Ethiopian Rift. In: Front. Earth Sci, 2023, |
| 2023 | Wubamlak Nigussie, Kevin Mickus, Derek Keir, Abera Alemu, Yoseph Muhabaw, Ameha A. Muluneh, Esubalew Yehualaw and Zelalem Demissie: Subsurface structure of magmatic segments during continental breakup: Perspectives from a gravity data analysis along the Main Ethiopian Rift. In: Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023, |
| 2022 | D. Maestrelli, S. Brune, G. Corti, D. Keir, A. A. Muluneh, F. Sani Analog and Numerical modeling of Rift-Rift-Rift triple junctions. In: Tectonics, 2022, |
| 2022 | Tsion Taye Woldeyohannes and Binyam Hailu and Ameha Muluneh and Tesfaye Kidane: Detection of geothermal anomalies in the Northern Lake Abaya geothermal field, Main Ethiopian Rift. In: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2022, |
| 2022 | Yoseph Muhabaw and Ameha Muluneh and Kahsay Nugsse and Ermias Filfilu and Tesfaye Kidane: Paleomagnetism of Gedemsa Magmatic Segment, Main Ethiopian Rift: Implication for clockwise rotation of the segment in the Early Pleistocene . In: Tectonophysics, 2022, |
| 2022 | Wubamlak Nigussie and Abera Alemu and Kevin Mickus and Ameha Muluneh: Structure of the upper crust at the axis segmentation stage of rift evolution as revealed by gravity data: case study of the Gedemsa magmatic segment, Main Ethiopian Rift. In: Journal of African Earth Sciences, 190, 2022, |
| 2021 | Muluken Kassa and Abera Alemu and Ameha Muluneh Determination of gravity and iso- static Moho: implications for the evolution of rifting in the central Main Ethiopian Rift. In: Journal of African Earth Sciences, 184, 2021, |
| 2021 | Karel Martinek and Krystof Verner and Tomas Hroch and Leta Megersa and Veronika Kopackova and David Burianek and Ameha Muluneh and Radika Kalinova and Miheret Yakob and Muluken Kassa Main Ethiopian Rift landslides formed in contrasting geological settings and climatic conditions. In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21, 2021, 3465-3487 |
| 2021 | Ameha Muluneh The opportunities of working in a challenging environment. In: Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, 2021, |
| 2021 | Ameha Muluneh and Derek Keir and Giacomo Corti: Thermo-rheological properties of the Ethiopian lithosphere and evidence for transient fluid induced lower crustal seismicity beneath the Ethiopian Rift.. In: Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 2021, |
| 2020 | Ameha Muluneh and Sascha Brune and Finnigan Illsley-Kemp and Giacomo Corti and Derek Keir and Anne Glerum and Tesfaye Kidane and Jim Mori Mechanism for deep crustal seismicity: Insight from modelling of deformation processes at the Main Ethiopian Rift. In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020, |
| 2020 | Giacomo Corti and Federico Sani and A. Florio and Tim Greenfield and Derek Keir and Asfaw Erbello and Ameha Muluneh and Atalay Ayele: Recent and active tectonics of the Asela-Langano margin, Main Ethiopian Rift (East Africa). In: Tectonics, 2020, |
| 2020 | Z. Franceschini and R. Cioni and S. Scaillet and Giacomo Corti and Federico Sani and I. Isola and F. Mazzarini and F. Duval and Asfaw Erbello and Ameha Muluneh and Sascha Brune: Recent volcano-tectonic activity of the Ririba rift and the evolution of rifting in South Ethiopia. In: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2020, |
| 2020 | Frank Zwann and Giacomo Corti and Federico Sani and Derek Keir and Ameha Muluneh and Finnigan Illsley-Kemp and Mauro Papini: Structural analysis of the Western Afar Margin, East Africa: evidence for multiphase rotational rifting. In: Tectonics, 2020, |
| 2019 | Giacomo Corti and R. Cioni and Z. Franceschini and Federico Sani and S. Scaillet Paula Molin and Illaria Isola and F. Mazzarini and Sascha Brune and Derek Keir and Asfaw Erbello and Ameha Muluneh and Finnigan Illsley-Kemp and Anne Glerum: Aborted propagation of the Ethiopian rift caused by linkage with the Kenyan rift. In: Nature Communications, 2019, |
| 2019 | Y. Darge and Binyam Hailu and Ameha Muluneh and Tesfaye Kidane: Detection of geothermal anomalies using Landsat 8 TIRS data in Tulu Moye geothermal prospect, Main Ethiopian Rift. In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2019, 16-26 |
| 2018 | Ameha Muluneh and Tesfaye Kidane and Giacomo Corti and Derek Keir: Constraints on fault and crustal strength of the Main Ethiopian Rift from formal inversion of earthquake focal mechanism data. In: Tectonophysics, 2018, 172-180 |
| 2018 | K. Nugsse and Ameha Muluneh and Tesfaye Kidane: Paleomagnetic evidence for counterclockwise rotation of the Dofen magmatic segment, Main Ethiopian Rift. In: Tectonophysics, 2018, 85-94 |
| 2017 | Ameha Muluneh and Marco Cuffaro and Tesfaye Kidane: Along-strike variation in deformation style inferred from kinematic reconstruction and strain rate analysis: A case study of the Ethiopian Rift. In: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2017, |
| 2016 | Ameha Muluneh and Tesfaye Kidane and Marco Cuffaro and Carlo Doglioni: Torque exerted on the side of crustal blocks controls the kinematics of Ethiopian Rift. In: Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2016, |
| 2014 | Ameha Muluneh and Marco Cuffaro and Carlo Doglioni: Left-lateral transtension along the Ethiopian Rift and constrains on the mantle-reference plate motions. In: Tectonophysics, 632, 2014, 21-31 |
| 2013 | Ameha Muluneh and Tesfaye Kidane and Julie Rowland and Valerian Bachtadse: Counterclockwise block rotation linked to southward propagation and overlap of sub-aerial Red Sea Rift segments, Afar Depression: Insight from paleomagnetism. In: Tectonophysics, 593, 2013, 111-120 |