Dr Maximilian Werner
MSci(Lond.), PhD(UCLA)
Expertise
My research focuses on tectonic and human-induced earthquakes, their seismic hazards and disaster resilience. I use seismology, statistics, numerical modelling and machine learning to study and forecast earthquake potential.
Current positions
Associate Professor of Geophysics and Natural Hazards
School of Earth Sciences
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Research interests
My research interests centre on earthquake physics, seismic hazard assessment and earthquake resilience. I combine physical and stochastic numerical modeling of earthquake processes that I confront with seismological observations. I am particularly interested in understanding the mechanisms by which earthquakes trigger other earthquakes (e.g. in damaging earthquake cascades or fluid-injection induced seismicity) and in improving models for the probabilistic forecasting of future earthquake potential, including probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA). I lead the global Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP), which provides cyberinfrastructure for prospective and reproducible evaluations of earthquake forecast models around the globe. Current work focuses on earthquake clustering and forecasting, fault-based seismic hazard assessment in the Himalaya and Malawi, fluid-injection induced seismicity and machine-learning based approaches to earthquake seismology.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Associate Professor of Geophysics and Natural Hazards
School of Earth Sciences
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Real-time Earthquake Risk Reduction for a Resilient Europe
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Earth SciencesDates
01/09/2019 to 31/08/2022
Evaluation, Quantification and Identification of Pathways and Targets for the assessment of Shale Gas RISK (EQUIPT4RISK)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Earth SciencesDates
01/09/2018 to 31/08/2022
8035 GCRF GLOBAL RESEARCH TRANSLATIONAL AWARDS EP/T015462/1 - SAFER PREPARED
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
SAFER PREPARED is a UKRI funded GCRF project 2020-2021 led at University of Bristol in partnership with colleagues in Malawi.
It is part of a wider Programme on "Innovative data…Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/10/2019 to 31/12/2021
Science Based Environmental baseline Monitoring 2019
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Earth SciencesDates
01/04/2019 to 31/03/2020
Pump-priming EU H2020 Operational earthquake forecasting
Principal Investigator
Description
International Strategic Fund (ISF) 2017/18 supported planning phase for EU H2020 project on Operational Earthquake Forecasting.Managing organisational unit
School of Earth SciencesDates
01/02/2018 to 31/07/2018
Thesis supervisions
Improving the Performance of Physics-based and Statistical Forecasts of Natural and Induced Seismicity
Supervisors
Using deep learning for phase detection and event location on hydraulic fracturing-induced seismicity
Supervisors
Spatiotemporal Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment of Global M9.0 Megathrust Earthquake Sequences
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
12/10/2020A novel approach to assessing nuisance risk from seismicity induced by UK shale gas development, with implications for future policy design
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Stress transfer from opening hydraulic fractures controls the distribution of induced seismicity
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
A Spatiotemporal Clustering Model for the Third Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (UCERF3-ETAS)
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Recent publications
12/10/2020A novel approach to assessing nuisance risk from seismicity induced by UK shale gas development, with implications for future policy design
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Simulation-based PSHA for the Kathmandu Valley
Pseudo-prospective Evaluation of UCERF3-ETAS Forecasts During the 2019 Ridgecrest Sequence
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Spatiotemporal seismic hazard and risk assessment of M9.0 megathrust earthquake sequences of wood-frame houses in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
A New Procedure for Evaluating Ground Motion Models, with Application to Hydraulic-Fracture-Induced Seismicity in the UK
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America