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Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Helmholtzstr. 7 
D-14476 Potsdam

Link zu Institutswebsite
E-Mail: zschau@gfz-potsdam.de
Phone: +49 331 288 1200
Fax: +49 331 288 1201

Research Interests
earth tides, mantle rheology, earthquakes, volcanism, geological hazards and risks, seismic early warning 

Academic Training

Professional Experience

Cooperation with other institutions / Consultancy in National and International Committees

• Member of the coordination committee of the EU-project “Strategies and tools for Real time Earthquake Risk Reduction (REAKT)” (2011 - current)
• Coordinator of the EU-project “New Multi-Hazard and Multi-Risk Assessment Methods for Europe (MATRIX)” (2010 – current)
• Chairman of the International Science Advisory Board to the "Central-Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences (CAIAG)", Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic (2007 - current)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Committee for Disaster Reduction
  (2001 - current)
• Coordinator of the EU-project “Seismic Early Warning for Europe (SAFER)” (2006 - 2009)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German IDNDR-Committee (1994 - 2000)

Editorial Activities
Multiple review activities for international journals


Other Professional Service Activities (national and international)

• Chairman of the German Tarsk Force Committee for Earthquakes (1993 - current)
• Global Earthquake Model GEM for global earthquake risk assessment:
  - Vice-Chair of the Governing Board (2009/2010)
  - Chairman of the OECD-Global Science Forum Advisory Board for establishing GEM (2006-09)
• European Seismological Commission:
  - Past President (2010 - current)
  - President (2008 - 2010)
  - Past Vice President (2006 - 2008)
  - Vice President (2002 - 2006)
• German-Indonesian Project for setting up the Tsunami Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean (GITEWS); Project coordinator for the Earthquake Monitoring System (2005 - 2011)
• Co-chairman of the "Center of Disaster Managment and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM)" (2022-2005)
• German representative in the Working group on "Early Warning" of the UN-ISDR Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction (2001 - 2003)
• Chariman of the Subcommission on Earthquake Prediction of the European Seismological Commission (1996-2002)
• Vice-President of the European Advisory Evaluation Committee for Earthquake Prediction of the Council of Europe

Honors, Awards, Nominations and Special Appointments

• Soloview Medal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU); 2008
• Life Fellowship of the Association of Exploration Geophysicists of India; 1984
• Honorary Member of Association of Hydrologists, India; 1982

Selected Invited Lectures (last 12 months)

• Fragile Earth Conference, Munich, 2011
• Intern. Symposium “Limits to the Anthropocene”, Hamburg, 2011
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, 2011
• Intern. Symposium “Our common future”, Essen 2010
• GeoDarmstadt, 2010
• University of Hamburg, 2010
• University of Braunschweig, 2010
• Urania Berlin, 2010
• German Committee for Desaster Reduction (DKKV), Bonn,  2010
• Magnus-Haus, Berlin 2010
• Journée Luxembourgeoise de Géodynamique, Luxemburg, 2009
• Deutsches Nationalkomitee für Geodäsie und Geophysik (NKGG), Potsdam, 2009
• European Geoscience Union, Vienna, 2009

Selected peer-reviewed publications

Gasparini, P., Manfredi, G., Zschau, J. (2011): Earthquake early warning as a tool for improving society’s resilience and crisis response. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 31, 2, 267-270, 10.1016/j.soildyn.2010.09.004

Jordan, T. H., Chen, Y.-T., Gasparini, P., Madariaga, R., Main, I., Marzocchi, W., Papadopoulos, G., Sobolev, G., Yamaoka, K., Zschau, J. (2011): Operational Earthquake Forecasting: State of Knowledge and Guidelines for Utilization. - Annals of Geophysics, 54, 4, 10.4401/ag-5350

Picozzi, M., Ditommaso, R., Parolai, S., Mucciarelli, M., Milkereit, C., Sobiesiak, M., Di Giacomo, D., Gallipoli, M. R., Pilz, M., Vona, M., Zschau, J. (2010): Real time monitoring of structures in task force missions: the example of the Mw=6.3 Central Italy Earthquake, April 6, 2009. - Natural Hazards, 52, 2, 253-256, 10.1007/s11069-009-9481-1.

Picozzi, M., Milkereit, C., Parolai, S., Jäckel, K. - H., Veit, I., Fischer, J., Zschau, J. (2010): GFZ Wireless Seismic Array (GFZ-WISE), a Wireless Mesh Network of Seismic Sensors: New Perspectives for Seismic Noise Array Investigations and Site Monitoring. - Sensors, 10, 3280-3304, 10.3390/s100403280.

Ditommaso, R., Parolai, S., Mucciarelli, M., Eggert, S., Sobiesiak, M., Zschau, J.(2009): Monitoring the response and the back-radiated energy of a building subjected to ambient vibration and impulsive action: the Falkenhof Tower (Potsdam, Germany). - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 10.1007/s10518-009-9151-4.

Pilz, M., Parolai, S., Leyton, F., Campos, J., Zschau, J. (2009): A comparison of site response techniques using earthquake data and ambient seismic noise analysis in the large urban areas of Santiago de Chile. - Geophysical Journal International, 178, 2, 713-728, 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04195.x.

Walter, T. R., Wang, R., Lühr, B.-G., Wassermann, J., Behr, Y., Parolai, S., Anggraini, A., Günther, E., Sobiesiak, M., Grosser, H., Wetzel, H.-U., Milkereit, C., Sri Brotopuspito, K., Prih, H., Zschau, J. (2008): The 26 May 2006 magnitude 6.4 Yogyakarta earthquake south of Mt. Merapi volcano: did lahar deposits amplify ground shaking and thus lead to the disaster?. - Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems (G3), 9, Q05006, 10.1029/2007GC001810.

Motagh, M., Hoffmann, J., Kampes, B., Baes, M., Zschau, J. (2007): Strain accumulation across the Gazikoy–Saros segment of the North Anatolian Fault inferred from Persistent Scatterer Interferometry and GPS measurements. - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 255, 3-4, 432-444, 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.01.003.

Motagh, M., Klotz, J., Tavakoli, F., Djamour, Y, Arabi, S., Wetzel, H.-U., Zschau, J. (2006): Combination of precise leveling and InSAR data to constrain source parameters of the Mw = 6.5, 26 December 2003 Bam earthquake. - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 163, 1, 1-18, 10.1007/s00024-005-0005-y.

Tyagunov, S., Grünthal, G., Wahlström, R., Stempniewski, L., Zschau, J. (2006): Seismic risk mapping for Germany. - Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS), 6, 4, 573-586.