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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2002 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Earth Sciences

Overview

Onno Oncken is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and has contributed extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialization in geophysics. Their research encompasses earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. The scientist's work also touches on earth-surface processes, atmospheric science, and applications involving artificial intelligence.

The main topics covered in Oncken's research include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Earthquake detection and analysis
  • Seismic imaging and inversion techniques
  • Geological and geophysical studies worldwide

Oncken's frequent co-authors include:

  • Vasiliki Mouslopoulou
  • Matthias Rosenau
  • John Begg
  • Jonathan Bedford
  • Andrew Nicol

Key publication venues where Oncken's work regularly appears are:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Tectonics
  • Nature
  • Geosphere

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope of Oncken's research:

  • Months-long thousand-kilometre-scale wobbling before great subduction earthquakes, 2020, Nature
  • Megathrust shear force controls mountain height at convergent plate margins, 2020, Nature
  • Forming a Mogi Doughnut in the Years Prior to and Immediately Before the 2014 M8.1 Iquique, Northern Chile, Earthquake, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Impact of power-law rheology on the viscoelastic relaxation pattern and afterslip distribution following the 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Slow slip in subduction zones: Reconciling deformation fabrics with instrumental observations and laboratory results, 2021, Geosphere

Oncken has been recognized by membership in prominent scientific organizations, including the Academia Europaea since 2006. In 2002, they were inducted into the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Earth Sciences category.

Best Publications

  • Deformation of the Central Andean Upper Plate System — Facts, Fiction, and Constraints for Plateau Models

    Onno Oncken;David Hindle;Jonas Kley;Kirsten Elger

  • 2010 Maule earthquake slip correlates with pre-seismic locking of Andean subduction zone

    Marcos Moreno;Matthias Rosenau;Onno Oncken

  • Subduction and collision processes in the Central Andes constrained by converted seismic phases

    X. Yuan;S. V. Sobolev;R. Kind;O. Oncken

  • The impact of analogue material properties on the geometry, kinematics, and dynamics of convergent sand wedges

    Jo Lohrmann;Nina Kukowski;Jürgen Adam;Onno Oncken

  • Shear localisation and strain distribution during tectonic faulting—new insights from granular-flow experiments and high-resolution optical image correlation techniques

    J. Adam;J.L. Urai;B. Wieneke;O. Oncken

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

    Bernd Schurr;Guenter Asch;Sebastian Hainzl;Jonathan Bedford

  • Toward understanding tectonic control on the Mw 8.8 2010 Maule Chile earthquake

    Marcelo Spegiorin Moreno;Daniel Melnick;M. Rosenau;J. Baez

  • Orogenic processes: quantification and modelling in the Variscan belt

    Wolfgang Franke;Volker Haak;Onno Oncken;David Tanner

  • Plateau‐style accumulation of deformation: Southern Altiplano

    Kirsten Elger;Onno Oncken;Johannes Glodny

  • Uplift of the western Altiplano plateau: Evidence from the Precordillera between 20° and 21°S (northern Chile)

    Pia Victor;Onno Oncken;Johannes Glodny

  • Late Cenozoic tectonism, collapse caldera and plateau formation in the central Andes

    Ulrich Riller;Ivan Petrinovic;Juliane Ramelow;Manfred Strecker

  • Orogenic Evolution of the Ural Mountains: Results from an Integrated Seismic Experiment

    R. Berzin;O. Oncken;J. H. Knapp;A. Pérez-Estaún

  • Numerical models of crustal scale convection and partial melting beneath the Altiplano–Puna plateau

    A. Yu Babeyko;S. V. Sobolev;R. B. Trumbull;O. Oncken

  • Heterogeneous plate locking in the South–Central Chile subduction zone: Building up the next great earthquake

    Marcelo Spegiorin Moreno;Daniel Melnick;M. Rosenau;John Bolte

  • Seismic imaging of a convergent continental margin and plateau in the central Andes (Andean Continental Research Project 1996 (ANCORP'96))

    O. Oncken;G. Asch;C. Haberland;J. Metchie

  • First deep seismic reflection images of the Eastern Alps reveal giant crustal wedges and transcrustal ramps

    Helmut Gebrande;Ewald Lüschen;Michael Bopp;Florian Bleibinhaus

  • Channelized fluid flow and eclogite-facies metasomatism along the subduction shear zone

    Samuel Angiboust;Thomas Pettke;Jan C. M. De Hoog;Benoit Caron

  • Accretion of a rifted passive margin: The Late Paleozoic Rhenohercynian fold and thrust belt (Middle European Variscides)

    O. Oncken;C. von Winterfeld;U. Dittmar

  • Locking of the Chile subduction zone controlled by fluid pressure before the 2010 earthquake

    Marcos Moreno;Christian Haberland;Onno Oncken;Andreas Rietbrock

  • Evidence for lithospheric detachment in the central Andes from local earthquake tomography

    B. Schurr;A. Rietbrock;G. Asch;R. Kind

  • The Laptev Sea Rift

    Dieter Franke;Karl Hinz;Onno Oncken

  • Magmatic Underplating, Extension, and Crustal Reequilibration: Insights From A Cross-Section Through the Ivrea Zone and Strona-Ceneri Zone, Northern Italy

    Andreas Henk;Leander Franz;Stefan Teufel;Onno Oncken

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcos Moreno
Marcos Moreno Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Helmut Echtler
Helmut Echtler University of Potsdam
Charlotte M. Krawczyk
Charlotte M. Krawczyk Technical University of Berlin
Daniel Melnick
Daniel Melnick Austral University of Chile
Samuel Angiboust
Samuel Angiboust Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Nina Kukowski
Nina Kukowski Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Johannes Glodny
Johannes Glodny University of Potsdam
Oliver Heidbach
Oliver Heidbach University of Potsdam
Helge W Arz
Helge W Arz Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Frank Lamy
Frank Lamy Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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