Sofia-Katerina Kufner
Glacier Geophysicist
since 10/2019 Postdoc – Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate team | British Antarctic Survey | Cambridge, UK
04/2019 – 09/2019 DAAD Fellowship – Department of earth sciences | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, USA
01/2018 – 03/2019 Postdoc – Lithosphere Dynamics group | GFZ | Potsdam, Germany
07/2016 – 12/2017 Helmholtz Graduate School Coordinator | GFZ | Potsdam, Germany
07/2012 – 06/2016 PhD | Free University Berlin/GFZ | Berlin/Potsdam, Germany
10/2006 – 06/2012 Bachelor/Master | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | Karlsruhe, Germany & Victoria University of Wellington | Wellington, New Zealand
Research interests
I am using seismological data to understand active processes on various scales ranging from tectonic deformation to glacial microseismicity.
• Selected methods:
Local earthquake data collection and processing: Automated earthquake location for large continuous datasets | Application of single and joint (re)location methods | Determination of focal mechanisms | Shear wave splitting
Seismic travel time tomography: Local and/or teleseismic tomography | Joint finite frequency tomography including local and telseismic data
• And applications:
Continental collision and dynamics of the lithosphere: Understanding the feedback between topography, crustal and deep lithospheric structure | Understanding the reasons for deep seismicity in continental settings
Cryoseisology: see BEAMISH project for details
Kufner, S., Brisbourne, A., Smith, A., Wookey, J., Martin, C., Hudson, T., & Kendall, J. (2022). Shear wave splitting catalogue, Rutford Ice Stream (West Antarctica), November 2018 to February 2019 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/6fcc17ad-425b-4367-bd23-c4133a38e359
Brisbourne, A., & Kendall, M. (2021). Downhole distributed acoustic seismic profiles at SkyTrain Ice Rise, West Antarctica, January 2020 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/99f0d269-d8fa-48e0-89e6-358486d82330
Kufner, S., Brisbourne, A., Smith, A., Hudson, T., Murray, T., Schlegel, R., Kendall, J., Anandakrishnan, S., & Lee, I. (2020). Microseismic icequake catalogue, Rutford Ice Stream (West Antarctica), November 2018 to February 2019 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/b809a040-8305-4bc5-baff-76aa2b823734