ZIP entails a total of 12 PhD positions and 2 postdoctoral fellows. ZIP project is a collaborative research and training effort between 12 leading international universities, research centers and 10 industrial partners.
Application Deadline: November, 13th 2013.
Expected starting date: between January and May 2014.
Subduction zones play a fundamental role in our daily life: half of the world’s population lives on top or nearby one of them, in coastal areas repeatedly devastated by large earthquakes, tsunamis or volcanic eruptions. These dramatic phenomena are fundamentally controlled by processes at and across subduction zone inter-plate boundaries, where stresses and energy release via earthquakes together with fluid-mediated mass transfer interact on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales (from 10-4 to 106-7 yr). Unfortunately, the nature, structure and properties of this plate interface are still largely unknown, calling for a thorough Zoom In between the Plates (ZIP).
ZIP research work packages WP1-2-3 are based on process understanding to reach the following overarching goals: (1) determine the plate interface dimensions, geometry and physical properties, (2) model time-integrated material fluxes, (3) constrain how rock rheologies control seismicity, mega-earthquake nucleation and rupture propagation.