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Frederik Tilmann is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on geophysics. Their research spans various subfields including geophysics, artificial intelligence, ocean engineering, general health professions, and atmospheric science.

The primary areas of research addressed by Tilmann include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Seismic waves and analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismic imaging and inversion techniques
  • Seismology and earthquake studies
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • Earthquake detection and analysis

Tilmann's scholarly output includes numerous publications in prominent venues with repeated contributions particularly in the following journals:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Tilmann cover various aspects of seismic data analysis and earthquake detection:

  • Which Picker Fits My Data? A Quantitative Evaluation of Deep Learning Based Seismic Pickers, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Fibre optic distributed acoustic sensing of volcanic events, 2022, Nature Communications
  • SeisBench-A Toolbox for Machine Learning in Seismology, 2022, Seismological Research Letters
  • Earthquake magnitude and location estimation from real time seismic waveforms with a transformer network, 2021, Geophysical Journal International
  • The transformer earthquake alerting model: a new versatile approach to earthquake early warning, 2020, Geophysical Journal International

Frequent collaborators in Tilmann's work include Jannes Münchmeyer, Joachim Saul, Dietrich Lange, Andreas Rietbrock, and Xiaohui Yuan, reflecting active collaboration across multiple experts in seismology and related fields.

Best Publications

  • Seismic Imaging of the Downwelling Indian Lithosphere Beneath Central Tibet

    Frederik Tilmann;James Ni;Indepth Iii Seismic Team

  • Gradual unlocking of plate boundary controlled initiation of the 2014 Iquique earthquake

    Bernd Schurr;Guenter Asch;Sebastian Hainzl;Jonathan Bedford

  • Complex hazard cascade culminating in the Anak Krakatau sector collapse.

    Thomas R. Walter;Mahmud Haghshenas Haghighi;Mahmud Haghshenas Haghighi;Felix M. Schneider;Diego Coppola

  • Tibetan plate overriding the Asian plate in central and northern Tibet

    Wenjin Zhao;Prakash Kumar;James Mechie;Rainer Kind

  • Seismic polarization anisotropy beneath the central Tibetan Plateau

    Wei-Chuang Huang;James F. Ni;Frederik Tilmann;Doug Nelson

  • Which Picker Fits My Data? A Quantitative Evaluation of Deep Learning Based Seismic Pickers

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  • Deep India meets deep Asia: Lithospheric indentation, delamination and break-off under Pamir and Hindu Kush (Central Asia)

    Sofia-Katerina Kufner;Bernd Schurr;Christian Sippl;Xiaohui Yuan

  • Mapping the Hawaiian plume conduit with converted seismic waves

    Xueqing Li;Rainer Kind;K. Priestley;Stephan V. Sobolev

  • Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps of Tibet and the surrounding regions from ambient seismic noise tomography

    Yingjie Yang;Yingjie Yang;Yong Zheng;John Chen;Shiyong Zhou

  • Fibre optic distributed acoustic sensing of volcanic events

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  • The AlpArray Seismic Network: A Large-Scale European Experiment to Image the Alpine Orogen

    György Hetényi;Irene Molinari;John Clinton;Götz Bokelmann

  • SeisBench—A Toolbox for Machine Learning in Seismology

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  • A complex Tibetan upper mantle: A fragmented Indian slab and no south-verging subduction of Eurasian lithosphere

    Xiaofeng Liang;Eric Sandvol;Y. John Chen;Thomas Hearn

  • The 2015 Illapel earthquake, central Chile, a type case for a characteristic earthquake?

    F. Tilmann;Y. Zhang;M. Moreno;Joachim Saul

  • Crustal structure of northern and southern Tibet from surface wave dispersion analysis

    Richard Rapine;Frederik Tilmann;Michael West;James Ni

  • Coalescence microseismic mapping

    Julian Drew;Robert S. White;Frederik Tilmann;Jon Tarasewicz

  • Aftershock seismicity of the 27 February 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake rupture zone

    Dietrich Lange;Frederik Tilmann;Frederik Tilmann;Sergio E. Barrientos;Eduardo Contreras-Reyes

  • SMART Cables for Observing the Global Ocean: Science and Implementation

    Bruce M. Howe;Brian K. Arbic;Jérome Aucan;Christopher R. Barnes

  • A high-resolution, time-variable afterslip model for the 2010 Maule Mw = 8.8, Chile megathrust earthquake

    Jonathan Bedford;Marcos Moreno;Juan Carlos Baez;Dietrich Lange

  • The September 2009 Padang earthquake

    John McCloskey;Dietrich Lange;Frederik Tilmann;Suleyman S. Nalbant

  • Earthquake magnitude and location estimation from real time seismic waveforms with a transformer network

    Jannes Münchmeyer;Dino Bindi;Ulf Leser;Frederik Tilmann

  • Seismic evidence for stratification in composition and anisotropic fabric within the thick lithosphere of Kalahari Craton

    Forough Sodoudi;Xiaohui Yuan;Rainer Kind;Sergei Lebedev

  • Significant and vertically coherent seismic anisotropy beneath eastern Tibet

    Gerardo León Soto;Gerardo León Soto;Eric Sandvol;James F. Ni;Lucy Flesch

  • Thickness of the lithosphere beneath Turkey and surroundings from S-receiver functions

    R. Kind;T. Eken;F. Tilmann;F. Sodoudi

  • Structure and seismogenic properties of the Mentawai segment of the Sumatra subduction zone revealed by local earthquake traveltime tomography

    R. Collings;Dietrich Lange;Dietrich Lange;A. Rietbrock;F. Tilmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaohui Yuan
Xiaohui Yuan University of Potsdam
Andreas Rietbrock
Andreas Rietbrock Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Torsten Dahm
Torsten Dahm University of Potsdam
Ingo Grevemeyer
Ingo Grevemeyer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Keith Priestley
Keith Priestley University of Cambridge
Ernst R. Flueh
Ernst R. Flueh GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
James Mechie
James Mechie University of Potsdam
Bernd Schurr
Bernd Schurr Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Danny H Natawidjaja
Danny H Natawidjaja National Research and Innovation Agency of the Republic of Indonesia
Eric Sandvol
Eric Sandvol University of Missouri

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