Prof. Dr. Marcel Thielmann
Prof. Dr. Marcel Thielmann
Geophysics - Professorship of Geodynamics and head of WG Geodynamics
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Meckenheimer Allee 176
53115 Bonn
Functions and Responsibilities
Prof. Dr. Thielmann is head of the Geodynamics Research Group within the Geophysics Division of the Institute of Earth Sciences, as well as head of the Emmy Noether Research Group QuakeID at the Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics (BGI) at the University of Bayreuth.
His research interests include deep earthquakes, flow of complex fluids through porous media and the rheology of Earth's lower mantle. He pursues an interdisciplinary approach to those subjects, his main tool being numerical modelling, combined with laboratory and field data. He is particularly interested in the interplay between different microscale processes and their impact on macroscale deformation. Understanding these feedback loops in the context of ductile failure in the mantle and lithosphere is crucial to better understand the seismic hazard originating from both deep earthquakes and shallow slow slip events, the formation of plate boundaries, but also to decipher the Earth's deep water cycle.
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QuakeID
The Emmy Noether Research Group QuakeID aims at deciphering the rupture processes of deep earthquakes which occur at depths larger than 60 km. The first observations of these events go back to 1928 (by Kiyoo Wadati), yet there is no consensus on what processes cause them. To solve this long-standing problem, we employ an interdisciplinary approach where numerical simulations will be combined with novel high pressure laboratory experiments and seismological observations.
