Professional Career (Employment History)

• Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Seismology (2025-present)

• Editorial Board Member of the Discover Hazards  (2025-present)

• Editorial Board Member of the Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors  (2024-present)

• Editor of the Pure and Applied Geophysics  (2022-present)

• Vice Dean at Faculty of Mines (2021-present)

• Associate Professor  – (2020)

• Assistant Professor – Istanbul Technical University – The Faculty of Mines – Department of Geophysical Engineering (2014)

• Postoctoral Researcher: Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellow (2011-2013) at Seismology Section of GeoForschungsZentrum, GFZ-Potsdam

• Postoctoral Researcher – The Young Investigators Group (The Helmholtz Foundation) (2010 – 2011) at GeoForschungsZentrum, GFZ-Potsdam

• Visiting Researcher: September, 2009 – 2010 at Geophysical Institute of Czech Republic

• Research Assistant: August, 2004 – 2009 at Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Geophysics Department, Sweden

• Research Assistant: May, 2002 – August, 2004 at Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Inst. (KOERI), Department of Geophysics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Publications

2025

• Rappisi, F., Lo Bue, R., Vanderbeek, B. P., Confal, J. M., Erman, C., Baccheschi, P., Pondrelli, S.., Eken, T., Yolsal-Çevikbilen, S., Faccenda, M. (2025). 3‐D mantle flow and structure of the Mediterranean from combined P‐wave and splitting intensity anisotropic tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130, e2024JB030883. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB030883

• Confal, J.M., Taymaz, T., Eken, T., Bezada, M.J., Faccenda, M. (2025). Remnant Tethyan Slab Fragments Beneath Northern Türkiye. EPSL – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 664, 119458, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119458

• Erman, C., Yolsal-Çevikbilen, S., Eken, T., Huang, Z., Taymaz, T. (2025). Seismic Anisotropy Variations in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea Region Revealed by Splitting Intensity Tomography: Implications on Mantle Dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) – Solid Earth, Vol. 130(3), e2024JB030331. Received 18 September 2024, Revised 8 February 2025, Accepted 11 March 2025, Available Online March-April 2025, Issue Online March-April 2025, Issue Published March-April 2025.

2024

• Özkan, B., Eken, T., Gaebler, P., Taymaz, T. (2024). Coda-Derived Source Properties Estimated Using Local Earthquakes in the Sea of Marmara, Türkiye. Solid Earth, 15, 1303–1317, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-1303-2024

• Yolsal-Çevikbilen, S., Taymaz, T., Irmak, T.S., Erman, C., Kahraman, M., Özkan, B., Eken, T., Öcalan, T., Doğan, A.H., Altuntaş, C. (2024). Source Geometry and Rupture Characteristics of the 20 February 2023 Mw 6.4 Hatay (Türkiye) Earthquake at Southwest Edge of the East Anatolian Fault. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 25(10), e2023GC011353, https:// doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011353. Received 13 November 2023, Revised 29 July 2024, Accepted 28 September 2024, Published Online 15 October 2024, Issue Published October 2024.

• Delph, J.R., Darin, M.H., Whitney, D.L., Cosca, M.A., Teyssier, C., Kaymakcı, N., Eken, T., Reid, M.R.,  and Beck, S.L. (2024). Deep lithospheric controls on surface deformation and seismicity around the East Anatolian Fault Zone and A3 Triple Junction: GSA Today, v. 34, p. 4–12, https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG584A.1.

• Keleş, D., Eken, T., Licciardi, A., Frederiksen, A. W., & Taymaz, T. (2024). Depth‐dependent anisotropy along northwest segment of the North Anatolian Fault Zone: Evidence for paleo‐tectonic structures contributing to overall complexity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129, e2023JB028014. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028014

• Izgi, G., Eken, T., Gaebler, P., Kaya-Eken, T., Taymaz, T. (2024). Frequency-Dependent Shear Wave Attenuation Along the Central Anatolia Region, Türkiye. Solid Earth, Vol. 15(6), 657-669, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-657-2024 

• Sun, Y-S, Melgar, D., Ruiz-Angulo, A., Ganas, A., Taymaz, T., Crowell, B., Xu, X., Tsironi, V., Karasante, I., Yolsal-Çevikbilen, S., Erman, C., Irmak, T.S., Çubuk-Sabuncu, Y., Eken, T. (2024) The 2020 Mw 7.0 Samos (Eastern Aegean Sea) Earthquake: joint source inversion of multi-type data, and tsunami modeling, Geophysical Journal International, ggae082, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae082

2023

• Zhang, Y., Tang, X., Liu, D., Taymaz, T., Eken, T., Guo, R., Zheng, Y., Wang, J., Sun, H.  (2023). Geometric controls on cascading rupture of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01283-3 

• Melgar, D., Taymaz, T., Ganas, A., Crowell, B., Öcalan, T., Kahraman, M., Tsironi, V., Yolsal-Çevikbilen, S., Valkaniotis, S., Irmak, T. S., Eken, T., Erman, C., Özkan, B., Dogan, A. H., & Altuntaş, C. (2023). Sub- and super-shear ruptures during the 2023 Mw 7.8 and Mw 7.6 earthquake doublet in SE Türkiye. Seismica, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v2i3.387

• Yilmaz, A., Topuz, G., Eken, T., Candan, O., and Yilmaz, H. (2023). Geology of the Eastern Anatolian Plateau (Turkey): a synthesis, Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences: Vol. 32: No. 4, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-0985.1854

• Turunctur, B., Eken, T., Chen, Y., Taymaz, T., Houseman, G.A, and Saygin, E. (2023). Crustal velocity images of north-western Turkey along the North Anatolian Fault Zone from transdimensional Bayesian ambient seismic noise tomography. Geophysical Journal International, ggad082, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad082.

2022

• Erman, C., Yolsal-Çevikbilen, S., Eken, T., Tilmann, F., Keleş, D., and Taymaz, T. (2022). Constraints on the Lithospheric Kinematics in the Aegean and Western Anatolia Unveiled by SKS Splitting Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2022JB025265, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025265.

• Tiwari, A.K., Singh, A., Saikia, D., Singh, C., and Eken, T. (2022). Crustal anisotropy beneath southeastern Tibet inferred from directional dependence of receiver functions, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 331, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2022.106912.

• Taymaz, T., Ganas, A., Berberian, M., Eken, T., Irmak, T.S., Kapetanidis, V., Yolsal-Çevikbilen, S., Erman, C., Keleş, D., Esmaeili, C., Tsironi, V., Özkan, B. (2022). The 23 February 2020 Qotur-Ravian Earthquake Doublet at the Iranian-Turkish Border: Seismological and InSAR Evidence for Escape Tectonics, Tectonophysics, Vol. 838, TECTO15364-229482, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229482, Received 12 November 2021, Revised 24 June 2022, Accepted 06 July 2022, Available online 10 July 2022, Issue Published 5 September 2022.

• Jana, N., Singh, C., Singh A., Eken, T., Dubey, AK., Dutta, A., Gupta, AK. (2022). Lithospheric architecture below the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt and adjoining Archean Cratons: imprints of India-Antarctica collisional tectonics, Gondwana Research, Volume 111, pages:209-222, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2022.08.009.

• Taymaz, T., Yolsal-Çevikbilen, S., Irmak, T.S., Vera, F., Liu, C., Eken, T., Zhang, Z., Erman, C., Keleş, D. (2022). Kinematics of the 30 October 2020 Mw 7.0 Néon Karlovásion (Samos) Earthquake in the Eastern Aegean Sea: Implications on Source Characteristics and Dynamic Rupture Simulations, Tectonophysics, Received 05 May 2021, Revised 21 December 2021, Accepted 12 January 2022, Available online January 2022, Issue Published 2022.

2021

• Eken, T., Qashqai, M.T., Schiffer., C., Taymaz, T., Saygin, E. (2021). New insights into crustal properties of Anatolia and its surroundings inferred from P-coda autocorrelation inversions, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB023184, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB023184.

• Irmak, T.S., Yolsal-Çevikbilen, S., Eken, T., Doğan, B., Erman, C., Yavuz, E., Alçık, H., Gaebler, P., Pınar, A., Taymaz, T. (2021). Source Characteristics and Seismotectonic Implications of 26 September 2019 Silivri (High)-Kumburgaz Basin Earthquake (Mw 5.7) and Evaluation of its Aftershocks at the North Anatolian Fault Zone (Central Marmara Sea, NW Turkey), Geophysical Journal International, Volume 227, Issue 1, October 2021, Pages 383–402, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab233

• Arvin, S., Sobouti, F., Priestley, K., Ghods, A., Motaghi, K., Tilmann, F., and Eken, T. (2021). Seismic anisotropy and mantle deformation in NW Iran inferred from splitting measurements of SK(K)S and direct S phases, Geophysical Journal International, Volume 226, Issue 2, August 2021, Pages 1417–1431, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab181

• Jana, N., Singh, A., Tiwari, A.K., Eken, T., Singh, A., Singh, C., Shankar, U. (2021). Seismic anisotropy and mantle deformation beneath Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt using direct-S waves, Precambrian Research, Volume 360, 106215.  Link.

• Taymaz, T., Ganas, A., Yolsal-Çevikbilen, S., Vera, F., Eken, T., Erman, C., Keleş, D., Kapetanidis, V., Valkaniotis, S., Karasante, I., Tsironi, V., Gaebler, P., Melgar, D., Ocalan, T. (2021). Source Mechanism and Rupture Process of the 24 January 2020 Mw 6.7 Doğanyol-Sivrice Earthquake obtained from Seismological Waveform Analysis and Space Geodetic Observations on the East Anatolian Fault Zone (Turkey), Tectonophysics, 804, 228745, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228745

2020

• Wang, H., Huang, Z., Eken, T., Keleş, D., Kaya-Eken, T., Confal, J. M., Erman, C., Yolsal-Çevikbilen, S., Zhao, D., Taymaz, T.  (2020). Isotropic and anisotropic P wave velocity structures of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath Turkey. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2020JB019566. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019566 Link.

• Confal, J., Bezada, M.J., Eken, T., Faccenda, M., Saygin, E., and Taymaz, T. (2020). Influence of Upper Mantle Anisotropy on Isotropic P‐ Wave Tomography Images Obtained in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, Issue: 8, e2019JB018559.  Link.

• Izgi, G., Eken, T., Gaebler, P., Eulenfeld, T.,  and  Taymaz, T.  (2020). Crustal seismic attenuation parameters in the western region of the North Anatolian Fault Zone, Journal of Geodynamics, volume 134, 101694. Link.

2019

• Eken, T.  (2019). Moment magnitude estimates for central Anatolian earthquakes using coda waves. Solid Earth, 10, 713-723, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-713-2019. Link

• Gaebler, P., Eken, T., Bektaş, H.Ö., Eulenfeld, T., Wegler, U. and  Taymaz, T. (2019). Imaging of Shear Wave Attenuation Along the Central part of the North Anatolian Fault Zone, Turkey, Journal of Seismology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-019-09842-1. Link.

• Schiffer, C., Eken, T., Rondenay, S.,  Taymaz, T. (2019). Localised crustal deformation along the central North Anatolian Fault Zone revealed by joint inversion of P-receiver functions and P-wave polarisations. Geophysical Journal International, Volume 217, Issue 1, 1 April 2019, Pages 682–702. doi:10.1093/gji/ggz040. Link

2018

• Kufner, S.-K., Eken, T., Tilmann, F., Schurr, B., Yuan, X., Mechie, J.,  Sippl, C., Schneider, F.  (2018). Seismic anisotropy beneath the Pamir and the Hindu Kush: Evidence for contributions from crust, mantle lithosphere, and asthenosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123, Accepted 10 November 2018, Available online 14 November 2018, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015926. Link 

• Confal, J., Faccenda, M., Eken, T., and Taymaz, T. (2018). Numerical Simulation of 3-D Mantle Flow Evolution in Subduction Zone Environments in Relation to Seismic Anisotropy Beneath the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL), Vol. 497, 50–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.06.005. Link

• Tiwari A.T., Bhushan, K., Eken, T., Singh, A. (2018). Upper mantle dynamics of Bangladesh by splitting analysis of core-mantle refracted SKS, PKS, and SKKS phases, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors (PEPI), Vol. 279, 21-32. Link

• A.Licciardi, T. Eken, T. Taymaz, N. Piana Agostinetti, S. Yolsal-Çevikbilen (2018). Seismic anisotropy in central North Anatolian Fault Zone and its implications on crustal deformation, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors (PEPI), Vol. 277, 99-112, Accepted 26 January 2018, On-Line 06 February 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2018.01.012. Link

2017

• Tiwari, A. K., Singh, A., Eken, T., and Singh, C. (2017). Seismic anisotropy inferred from direct S-wave-derived splitting measurements and its geodynamic implications beneath southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Solid Earth, 8, 435-452, doi:10.5194/se-8-435-2017, 2017. Link

• Saltogianni, V., Taymaz, T., Yolsal-Çevikbilen, S., Eken, T., Moschas, F. and Stiros, S. (2017). Fault Model for the 2015 Leucas (Aegean Arc) Earthquake: Analysis Based on Seismological and Geodetic Observations. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 433–444. doi: 10.1785/0120160080. Link

2016

• Confal, J., Eken, T., Tilmann, F., Yolsal-Çevikbilen, S., Çubuk-Sabuncu, Y., Saygin, E., and Taymaz, T. (2016). Investigation of mantle kinematics beneath the Hellenic-subduction zone with teleseismic direct shear waves. Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 261, 141–151, doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2016.10.01. Link

• Singh, A., Eken, T., Mohanty, D.D., Saikia, D., Singh, C., Kumar, M.R. (2016). Significant seismic anisotropy beneath southern Tibet inferred from splitting of direct S-waves. Physics of the  Earth and Planetary Interiors, 250, 1–11. Link

2015

• Kind, R., Eken, T., Tilmann, F., Sodoudi, F., Taymaz, T., Bulut, F., Xuan, X., Can, B. and Schneider, F. (2015). Thickness of the lithosphere beneath Turkey and surroundings from S-receiver functions. Solid Earth, 6, 971-984. Link

2014

• Vinnik, L., Oreshin, S., Makeyeva, L., Peregoudov, D ., Kozlovskaya, E., Pedersen, H., Plomerova, J., Achauer, U., Kissling, E., Sanina, I., Jamsen, T., Silvennoinen, H., Pequegnat, C., Hurskainen, R., Guiguet, R., Hausmann, H., Jedlicka, P., Aleshin, I., Bourova, E., Bodvarsson, R., Bruckl, E., Eken, T., Heikkinen, P., Houseman, G., Johnsen, H., Kremenetskaya, E., Komminaho, K., Munzarova, H., Roberts, R., Ruzek, B., Shomali, H., Schweitzer, J., Shaumyan, A., Vecsey, L. and Volosov, S. (2014). Anisotropic lithosphere under the Fennoscandian shield from P receiver functions and SKS waveforms of the POLENET/LAPNET array. Tectonophysics, 628, 45-54. Link

• Eken, T. and Tilmann, F. (2014). The use of direct shear waves in quantifying seismic anisotropy: Reference station technique applied on the Northeastern Tibet. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 104, 2644-2661. Link

2013

• Kind, R., Sodoudi, F., Yuan, X., Shomali, H., Eken, T., Tilmann, F., Balling, B., Jacobsen, B.H., Bianchi, M., Kumar, P. and Geissler, W. (2013). Scandinavia - a former Tibet?. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14 (10), 4479-4487. Link

• Eken, T., Tilmann, F., Mechi, J., Zhao, W., Kind, R., Su, H., Xue, G. and Karplus, M. (2013). Seismic Anisotropy from SKS splitting beneath Northeastern Tibet. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 103, 3362-3371. Link

• Bohnhoff, M., Bulut, F., Dresen, G., Malin, P., Eken, T. and Aktar, M. (2013). An earthquake gap south of Istanbul. Nature Communications, 4, 1999. Link

• Eken, T., Bohnhoff, M., Bulut, F., Can, B., and Aktar, M. (2013). Crustal anisotropy in the Eastern Sea of Marmara region in NW Turkey. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 103 (2A), 911-924. Link

2012

• Bulut, F., Bohnhoff, M., Eken, T., Janssen, C., Kılıç, T., and Dresen, G. (2012). The East Anatolian Fault Zone: Seismotectonic setting and spatiotemporal characteristics of seismicity based on precise earthquake locations. Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth. 117 (B7), 2156-2202. Link

• Eken, T., Plomerová, J., Vecsey, l., Babuška, V., Roberts, R., Shomali, H. and Bodvarsson, B. (2012). Effects of seismic anisotropy on P-velocity tomography of the Baltic Shield. Geophysical Journal International, 188 (2), 600-612. Link

2011

• Dündar, S., Kind, R., Yuan, X., Bulut, F., Sodoudi, F., Heit, B., Kumar, P., Li, X., Hanka, W., Martin, R., Stiller, M., Eken, T., Bianchi, M., Buforn, E., and Davila, J.M. (2011). Receiver function images of the base of the lithosphere in the Alboran Sea region. Geophysical Journal International, 187 (2), 1019-1026. Link

2010

• Eken, T., Plomerová, J., Roberts, R., Vecsey, l., Babuška, V., Shomali, H. and Bodvarsson, B. (2010). Seismic anisotropy of the mantle lithosphere beneath the Swedish National Seismological Network (SNSN). Tectonophysics, 480 (1-4), 241-258. Link

2008

• Eken, T., Shomali, H., Roberts, R., Hieronymus, C. and Bodvarsson, R. (2008). S and P velocity heterogeneities within the upper mantle below the Baltic Shield. Tectonophysics, 462 (1-4), 109-124. Link

2007

• Eken T., Shomali, H., Roberts, R. and Bodvarsson, R. (2007). Upper Mantle Structure of the Baltic Shield Resolved by Teleseismic Tomography along the Swedish National Seismological Network (SNSN). Geophysical Journal International, 169, 617-630. Link

2006

• Riedel, C., Tryggvason, A., Bransdottir, B., Dahm, T., Stefansson, R., Hensch, M.,Bodvarsson, R., Vokfjord, K.S., Jakobsdottir, S., Eken, T., Herber, R., Holmjarn, J., Schnese, M., Thölen, M., Hofmann, B., Sigurdsson, B. and Winter, S. (2006). First results from the North Iceland experiment. Marine Geophysical Researches, 27 (4), 267-281.  Link

2004

• Eken T., Mayeda, K., Hofstetter, A., Gok, R., Orgulu, G. and Turkelli, N. (2004). An Application of the Coda Methodology for Moment-Rate Spectra Using Broadband Stations in Turkey. Geophysical Research Letters, 31 (11), L11609. Link

2003

• Turkelli, N., Sandvol, E., Zor, E., Gok, R., Bekler, T., Al-Lazki, A., Karabulut, H., Kuleli, S., Eken,T., Gurbuz, C., Bayraktutan, S., Seber, D. and Barazangi, M. (2003). Seismogenic Zones in Eastern Turkey. Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (24), 8039. Link