Staff

Function and Responsibilities:

Principal Investigator

Research Interests:

• Earthquake Bursts and Swarm Seismicity
• Fluid-Induced Seismicity
• Active Lithospheric Transformation
• Lithosphere–Fluid Interactions
• Earthquake Source Processes
• Volcano Seismology
• Lithospheric Imaging
• Machine Learning in Seismology
• Large-N Seismic Arrays
• Deep Volatile Transport and Seismic Monitoring

Career:

2013 – 2019
Research Assistant, Boğaziçi University, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute

2017
Participant, GFZ International Training Course: "Seismology, Seismic Data Analysis, Hazard Assessment and Risk Mitigation"
Organized by Section 2.1, GFZ
Funded by the Federal Foreign Office – UNESCO

2019 – 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher, Boğaziçi University, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute  KOERI. Project: The Deviation Angle From P-Wave Particle Motion of KOERI Network (see Büyükakpınar et al., 2021a, Seismological Research Letters)

2020
Visiting Researcher, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
Project: Reservoir-Triggered Seismicity in Eastern Turkey(see Büyükakpınar et al., 2021b, Frontiers in Earth Science)
Funding: German Federal Foreign Office

2021 – 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Catania, Italy
Project: eTna eRUption assiSTant (TRUST) (see Büyükakpınar et al., 2022, JGR: Solid Earth)
Funding: Sicily Civil Protection Department 

2022
Postdoctoral Researcher, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
Project: EWRICA – Early Warning and Rapid Impact Assessment with Real-Time GNSS in the Mediterranean
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF)

2022 – 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Potsdam
Project: Insights into Rupture Directivity Patterns from Microseismicity to Weak Events: Implications for Induced Seismicity by Fluid Injection Processes (INDI) (see Büyükakpınar et al., 2024, JGR: Solid Earth)

2023 – Present

1. Principal Investigator, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
Project: Characterizing Source Properties of NW Bohemia/Vogtland Earthquake Swarms Exploiting Novel Network and Waveform Processing Tools (CHASING)
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) – SPP 1006: International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), 3 years

Büyükakpınar et al., 2026, Commun Earth Environ
Project website Press release (GFZ)

2. Scientific Coordinator, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
Project: Eger Large Seismic Experiment: ELISE Project website - Press release (GFZ)

Research Boards and Committees:

Coordination Committee member of the TOPOASIA - Advancing a 4-D Understanding of Asia's Dynamic Earth