I am an observational seismologist ...

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who is interested in everything related to volcanoes, earthquakes and large scale geodynamic processes such as subduction, rifting and mountain building.

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The last few years, my work has focused on understanding magmatic-tectonic interactions along the East African Rift System. Through the SEISVOL project, financed by the DFG (German Research Council), I was able to study the Natron basin and the plumbing system of Earth's only currently active carbonatite volcano Oldoinyo Lengai.

I also am an expert in shear-wave splitting analyses which I use to constrain seismic anisotropy. During my PhD, I developed a new code - called SplitRacer - to analyse shear-wave splitting more efficiently.

I am now a junior professor for volcano seismology at the Gutenberg University Mainz.

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