I am a postdoctoral fellow at GFZ Helmholtz Center for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany. Before joining GFZ, I held a postdoctoral position at the University of Otago, New Zealand. I completed my PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. 

At GFZ, my research focuses on the mechanics of flank instability in Mount Etna, slow slip generation in continental strike-slip faults and the interaction between fluid flow and fault slip. At the University of Otago, I worked on characterizing the occurrence patterns of slow slip in a quantitative way using statistical models (i.e., renewal processes). During my PhD, I investigated the mechanics of slow slip and the role of fluids in their generation.

Publications

• (Under review in GGG) Perez-Silva, A., Kaneko, Y., & Wang T. Pore-pressure cycles and slow slip generation on mildly velocity-weakening faults. 

• Perez-Silva, A., Wang, T., Wallace, L., Bebbington, M., & Denys, P. (2025). Assessing occurrence patterns of shallow Hikurangi slow slip events using renewal processes. Geophysical Research Letters, 52 (13). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL116605

• Perez-Silva, A., Kaneko, Y., Savage, M., Wallace, L., & Warren-Smith, E. (2023). Characteristics of slow slip events explained by rate-strengthening faults subject to periodic pore fluid pressure changes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2022JB026332. https://doi. org/10.1029/2022JB026332

• Perez-Silva, A., Kaneko, Y., Savage, M., Wallace, L., Li, D., & Williams, C. (2022). Segmentation of shallow slow slip events at the Hikurangi subduction zone explained by along- strike changes in fault geometry and plate convergence rates. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(1), e2021JB022913. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022913 

• Perez-Silva, A., Li, D., Gabriel, A.-A., & Kaneko, Y. (2021). 3D Modeling of long-term slow slip events along the flat-slab segment in the Guerrero Seismic Gap, Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(13), e2021GL092968. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092968