NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS
Dr Vasiliki Mouslopoulou
SENIOR RESEARCHER IN PLATE-TECTONICS & EARTHQUAKE GEOLOGY
RESEARCH
INTERESTS

Earthquake geology, Active tectonics, Plate boundary deformation, Subduction Seismogenesis, Fault growth, Fault analysis, Tectonic geomorphology, Archaeoseismology

EDUCATION

2018: M.Sc. in History of Philosophy, National & Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece – (without graduating).

2006: Ph.D. in Geology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

2000: M.Sc. in Solid Earth Physics, University of Bergen, Norway

1997: Diploma in Geology, National & Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece

1996: Erasmus in School of Earth Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway

CAREER

2022 – : Senior Researcher, Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece.

2018 – : Guest Scientist, German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ), Germany.

2018 – 2022: Assoc. Researcher, Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece.

2012 – 2018: Senior Scientist at the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ), Germany.

2013 – 2017: Lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin (FU), Germany.

2009 – 2011:  Marie Curie International Incoming Postdoctoral Fellow (IIF), Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece.

2007 – 2009: IRCSET Postdoctoral Fellow, Fault Analysis Group, University College Dublin, Ireland.

2003-2005: Graduate Research Demonstrator, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
2001-2007: Researcher at GNS Science, New Zealand.

RESEARCH

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  • Mouslopoulou, V., Bocchini, G.-M., Cesca, S., Saltogianni, V., Bedford, J., Petersen, G., Gianniou, M., Oncken, O., 2020. Earthquake-swarms, slow-slip and fault-interactions at the western-end of the Hellenic Subduction System precede the M6.9 Zakynthos Earthquake, Greece. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2020GC009243, doi:10.1029/2020GC009243
  • Mouslopoulou, V., Saltogianni, V., Nicol, A., Oncken, O., Begg, J., Babeyko, A., Cesca, S., Moreno, M., 2019. Breaking a subduction-termination from top-to-bottom: the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 506, 221-230, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.10.020.
  • Mouslopoulou, V., Oncken, O., Hainzl, S., Nicol, A., 2016. Uplift rate transients at subduction margins due to earthquake clustering. Tectonics 35, 2370–2384, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016TC004248.
  • Mouslopoulou, V., Walsh, J.J., Nicol, A., 2009. Fault displacement rates on a range of timescales. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 278, 186-197, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.031.
  • Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T.A., Walsh, J.J., 2007. Displacement transfer between intersecting strike-slip and extensional fault systems. Journal of Structural Geology 29, 100-116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2006.08.002.


RESEARCH PROFILE:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vasiliki-Mouslopoulou
https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=77jpI6MAAAAJ&hl=el
ORCID 0000-0002-5049-5027: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5049-5027
Scopus Author ID 15073214200: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=15073214200
Web of Science Researcher ID: https://publons.com/researcher/3609864/vasiliki-mouslopoulou/
Personal Webpage: https://mouslopoulou.com/