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D-Index
100
Citations
33047
World Ranking
136
National Ranking
68

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2013 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1999 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Roland Bürgmann is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular expertise in geophysics, reflected by 206 publications in that subfield. Additionally, their work spans aerospace engineering, management and monitoring policies, artificial intelligence, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's research topics include earthquake and tectonic studies, Earthquake Detection and Analysis, and studies of high-pressure geophysics and materials. Their work also incorporates geological and geochemical analysis, landslides and related hazards, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications and techniques, and seismic waves and analysis.

Roland Bürgmann has published extensively in prominent journals, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Science Advances

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "What's down there? The structures, materials and environment of deep-seated slow slip and tremor," 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Entering the Era of Earth Observation-Based Landslide Warning Systems: A Novel and Exciting Framework," 2020, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
  • "Four-dimensional surface motions of the Slumgullion landslide and quantification of hydrometeorological forcing," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Slip rate deficit and earthquake potential on shallow megathrusts," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Rupture Process of the 2019 Ridgecrest, California Mw 6.4 Foreshock and Mw 7.1 Earthquake Constrained by Seismic and Geodetic Data," 2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Frequent coauthors working alongside Roland Bürgmann include Kang Wang, Dezheng Zhao, Chunyan Qu, Sayyed Mohammad Javad Mirzadeh, and Shuanggen Jin. The collaborative nature of this research suggests sustained partnerships across multiple works.

Roland Bürgmann has been recognized with several distinctions, including becoming a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019 and Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2013. Earlier in their career, they received the Hellman Fellowship in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Continuous deformation of the Tibetan Plateau from global positioning system data

    Pei-Zhen Zhang;Zhengkang Shen;Min Wang;Weijun Gan

  • SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY TO MEASURE EARTH'S SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY AND ITS DEFORMATION

    Roland Burgmann;Paul A. Rosen;Eric J. Fielding

  • Rheology of the Lower Crust and Upper Mantle: Evidence from Rock Mechanics, Geodesy, and Field Observations

    Roland Bürgmann;Georg Dresen

  • Contemporary crustal deformation around the southeast borderland of the Tibetan Plateau

    Zheng-Kang Shen;Zheng-Kang Shen;Jiangning Lü;Min Wang;Roland Bürgmann

  • Slip maxima at fault junctions and rupturing of barriers during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

    Zheng-Kang Shen;Zheng-Kang Shen;Zheng-Kang Shen;Jianbao Sun;Peizhen Zhang;Yongge Wan

  • Time-dependent land uplift and subsidence in the Santa Clara valley, California, from a large interferometric synthetic aperture radar data set

    David A. Schmidt;David A. Schmidt;Roland Bürgmann

  • Dynamics of Slow-Moving Landslides from Permanent Scatterer Analysis

    George E. Hilley;Roland Bürgmann;Alessandro Ferretti;Fabrizio Novali

  • Kinematics of the India-Eurasia collision zone from GPS measurements

    Kristine M. Larson;Roland Bürgmann;Roger Bilham;Jeffrey T. Freymueller

  • Convergence across the northwest Himalaya from GPS measurements

    Paramesh Banerjee;Roland Bürgmann

  • Coseismic and Postseismic Fault Slip for the 17 August 1999, M = 7.5, Izmit, Turkey Earthquake.

    R. E. Reilinger;S. Ergintav;R. Bürgmann;S. McClusky

  • The geophysics, geology and mechanics of slow fault slip

    Roland Bürgmann

  • Slip distributions on faults: effects of stress gradients, inelastic deformation, heterogeneous host-rock stiffness, and fault interaction

    Roland Bürgmann;David D. Pollard;Stephen J. Martel

  • Evidence of power-law flow in the Mojave desert mantle

    Andrew M. Freed;Roland Bürgmann

  • The motion and active deformation of India

    J. Paul;R. Bürgmann;V. K. Gaur;R. Bilham

  • Geodynamics of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau from seismic anisotropy and geodesy

    S. Sol;A. Meltzer;R. Bürgmann;R.D. van der Hilst

  • Mobility of continental mantle: Evidence from postseismic geodetic observations following the 1992 Landers earthquake

    Fred F. Pollitz;Gilles Peltzer;Roland Bürgmann

  • Resolving vertical tectonics in the San Francisco Bay Area from permanent scatterer InSAR and GPS analysis

    Roland Bürgmann;George Hilley;Alessandro Ferretti;Fabrizio Novali

  • The Size and Duration of the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake from Far-Field Static Offsets

    Paramesh Banerjee;Fred F. Pollitz;Fred F. Pollitz;Fred F. Pollitz;Roland Bürgmann;Roland Bürgmann;Roland Bürgmann

  • Tremor-tide correlations and near-lithostatic pore pressure on the deep San Andreas fault.

    Amanda McCombs Thomas;Robert M. Nadeau;Roland Burgmann

  • Intraplate deformation of the Indian subcontinent

    Paramesh Banerjee;Roland Bürgmann;B. Nagarajan;Edwin V Apel

  • Earthquake Potential Along the Northern Hayward Fault, California

    Roland Bürgmann;D. Schmidt;R. M. Nadeau;M. d'Alessio

  • Post-seismic relaxation following the great 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake on a compressible self-gravitating Earth

    Fred F. Pollitz;Roland Bürgmann;Paramesh Banerjee

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Fielding
Eric J. Fielding Jet Propulsion Lab
Robert M. Nadeau
Robert M. Nadeau University of California, Berkeley
Fred F. Pollitz
Fred F. Pollitz United States Geological Survey
Zheng-Kang Shen
Zheng-Kang Shen University of California, Los Angeles
Jeffrey T. Freymueller
Jeffrey T. Freymueller Michigan State University
Manoochehr Shirzaei
Manoochehr Shirzaei United Nations University
Andrew M. Freed
Andrew M. Freed Purdue University West Lafayette
Douglas S. Dreger
Douglas S. Dreger University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Paul Ampuero
Jean-Paul Ampuero Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
David R. Shelly
David R. Shelly United States Geological Survey

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