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György Hetényi is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and has a research focus primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with an emphasis on Geophysics.

Their research covers a broad range of subfields including:

  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Key topics of investigation include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies

Hetényi has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • "Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures," 2020, Science
  • "Building the Himalaya from tectonic to earthquake scales," 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Crustal Thinning From Orogen to Back-Arc Basin: The Structure of the Pannonian Basin Region Revealed by P-to-S Converted Seismic Waves," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Stress and deformation mechanisms at a subduction zone: insights from 2-D thermomechanical numerical modelling," 2020, Geophysical Journal International
  • "Joint Seismic and Gravity Data Inversion to Image Intra-Crustal Structures: The Ivrea Geophysical Body Along the Val Sesia Profile (Piedmont, Italy)," 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science

The scientist frequently publishes in these venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica

Hetényi collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Matteo Scarponi
  • Ludovic Baron
  • Jaroslava Plomerová
  • Othmar Müntener
  • Konstantinos Michailos

Best Publications

  • Underplating in the Himalaya-Tibet collision zone revealed by the Hi-CLIMB experiment.

    John Nábělek;György Hetényi;Jérôme Vergne;Soma Sapkota

  • Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures.

    Thomas Lecocq;Stephen P. Hicks;Koen Van Noten;Kasper van Wijk

  • Density distribution of the India plate beneath the Tibetan plateau: Geophysical and petrological constraints on the kinetics of lower-crustal eclogitization

    György Hetényi;Rodolphe Cattin;Fabrice Brunet;Laurent Bollinger

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

    György Hetényi;Irene Molinari;John Clinton;Götz Bokelmann

  • Seismic velocities in Southern Tibet lower crust: a receiver function approach for eclogite detection

    Gérard Wittlinger;Véronique Farra;György Hetényi;Jérôme Vergne

  • Coexistence of lawsonite‐bearing eclogite and blueschist: phase equilibria modelling of Alpine Corsica metabasalts and petrological evolution of subducting slabs

    A. Vitale Brovarone;A. Vitale Brovarone;C. Groppo;G. Hetenyi;R. Compagnoni

  • The 2015 Gorkha earthquake: A large event illuminating the Main Himalayan Thrust fault

    Zacharie Duputel;Jérôme Vergne;Luis Rivera;Gérard Wittlinger

  • Building the Himalaya from tectonic to earthquake scales

    Luca Dal Zilio;György Hetényi;Judith Hubbard;Laurent Bollinger

  • The effective elastic thickness of the India Plate from receiver function imaging, gravity anomalies and thermomechanical modelling

    György Hetényi;Rodolphe Cattin;Jérôme Vergne;John L. Nábělek

  • Seismotectonics of Bhutan: Evidence for segmentation of the Eastern Himalayas and link to foreland deformation

    Tobias Diehl;Julia Singer;György Hetényi;György Hetényi;György Hetényi;Djordje Grujic

  • Segmentation of the Himalayas as revealed by arc-parallel gravity anomalies.

    György Hetényi;György Hetényi;György Hetényi;Rodolphe Cattin;Rodolphe Cattin;Théo Berthet;Nicolas Le Moigne

  • Scales of columnar jointing in igneous rocks: field measurements and controlling factors

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  • Active tectonics of the eastern Himalaya: New constraints from the first tectonic geomorphology study in southern Bhutan

    Theo Berthet;Jean-François Ritz;Matthieu Ferry;Phuntsho Pelgay

  • Geophysical applicability of atomic clocks: direct continental geoid mapping

    Ruxandra Bondarescu;Mihai Bondarescu;Mihai Bondarescu;Gyoergy Hetenyi;Lapo Boschi;Lapo Boschi

  • The underthrusting Indian crust and its role in collision dynamics of the Eastern Himalaya in Bhutan: Insights from receiver function imaging

    Julia Singer;Edi Kissling;Tobias Diehl;György Hetényi;György Hetényi;György Hetényi

  • From mountain summits to roots: Crustal structure of the Eastern Alps and Bohemian Massif along longitude 13.3°E

    György Hetényi;Jaroslava Plomerová;Irene Bianchi;Hana Kampfová Exnerová

  • Joint approach combining damage and paleoseismology observations constrains the 1714 A.D. Bhutan earthquake at magnitude 8±0.5

    György Hetényi;Romain Le Roux-Mallouf;Théo Berthet;Rodolphe Cattin

  • Initiation of crustal-scale thrusts triggered by metamorphic reactions at depth: Insights from a comparison between the Himalayas and Scandinavian Caledonides

    Loïc Labrousse;György Hetényi;Hugues Raimbourg;Laurent Jolivet

  • Imaging the Moho and the Main Himalayan Thrust in Western Nepal With Receiver Functions

    Shiba Subedi;Shiba Subedi;György Hetényi;Jérôme Vergne;Laurent Bollinger

  • Ground-based optical atomic clocks as a tool to monitor vertical surface motion

    Ruxandra Bondarescu;Andreas Schärer;Andrew P. Lundgren;György Hetényi;György Hetényi

  • Discontinuous low-velocity zones in southern Tibet question the viability of the channel flow model

    György Hetényi;György Hetényi;Jérôme Vergne;Jérôme Vergne;Laurent Bollinger;Rodolphe Cattin;Rodolphe Cattin

  • Flexure of the India plate underneath the Bhutan Himalaya

    Paul Hammer;Théo Berthet;György Hetényi;György Hetényi;Rodolphe Cattin

Frequent Co-Authors

Rodolphe Cattin
Rodolphe Cattin University of Montpellier
Jaroslava Plomerová
Jaroslava Plomerová Czech Academy of Sciences
Edi Kissling
Edi Kissling ETH Zurich
John Clinton
John Clinton ETH Zurich
Othmar Müntener
Othmar Müntener University of Lausanne
Alberto Zanetti
Alberto Zanetti Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources
Lukas P. Baumgartner
Lukas P. Baumgartner University of Lausanne
Laurent Bollinger
Laurent Bollinger French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Stefan M. Schmalholz
Stefan M. Schmalholz University of Lausanne
Graham Stuart
Graham Stuart University of Leeds

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