The research area focuses on geological / geophysical natural hazards, quantification of their impacts, their prognosis, and early warning. For earthquakes in particular, we are developing deterministic and probabilistic risk analyses as well as methods to analyze and estimate associated damages and other risks from buildings and infrastructural facilities. Apart from the large devastating earthquakes expected for the megacity of Istanbul, for instance, we are studying earthquakes induced or triggered by mining activities, geothermal energy production, CO2 sequestration, and other processes.
Work is carried out by the Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM) and KIT Climate and Environment Center.
Research Topics and Projects
Earthquake Risk and Early Warning
- Seismic Hazard and Risk for Spatially Distributed Systems
- 3D Effects of Seismic Ground Motion in the Taipei Basin and Implications for Hazard and Risk (DFG)
- Earthquake Disaster Information System for the Marmara-Region (EDIM)
- Early Warning System for Transport Lines (EWS-Transport)
- Seismic eArly warning For EuoRope - SAFER
Earthquake Source Physics
- Dr. Rebecca Harrington Alexander-von-Humboldt-Fellowship and YIG - PERMIT
Vulnerability and Earthquake Damage
- SYNER-G, Course Development in Risk Identification
- New Multi-HAzard and MulTi-RIsK Assessment MethodS for Europe (MATRIX)
- Megacity Indicator Systems for Disaster Management - Istanbul Implemntation
- Indirect Disaster Vulnerability in Baden Wuerttemberg
- WBI Natural Disaster Management Learning Program
- Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI)
- CATDAT - Damaging Natural Disaster Databases (Earthquakes, Floods, Volcanoes)
- OPAL – Open source Procedure for Assessment of Loss
