Function and Responsibilities:

• Editing publications, proposals and presentations
• Drafting budgetary and other administrative documents
• Assistance with arrangements of meetings and coordination of efforts
• Interactions with stakeholders within Germany and EU Commission
• Writing scientific proposals and coordinating multi-campus science projects
• Performance of various administrative tasks
• Coordinating the DFG research unit

Research Interests:

• The interactions and feedback between surface processes and plate tectonics
• Seismic anisotropy observations and modeling
• The evolution of mantle plumes beneath East Africa

• Indian Ocean Geoid Low

Career:

2015-2019:     PhD in Seismology (University College London), supervisors: Ana Ferreira, Manuele Faccenda

2019-2020:     Teaching Fellow (University College London)

2020-2023:     Postdoc in Geodynamics (GeoForschungsZentrum), supervisors: Stephan Sobolev, Sascha Brune

2023-2024:     Free-lance Science and Yoga teacher

2024-present: Scientific Coordinator (GeoForschungsZentrum), Yuri Shpritz

Publication list:

1. Kendall, E., Faccenda, M., Ferreira, A.M.G., Chang., S-J., (2022). On the relationship between oceanic plate speed, tectonic stress and seismic anisotropy. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL097795. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL097795

2. Kendall, E., Ferreira, A. M. G., Chang, S.-J., Witek, M., & Peter, D. (2021). Constraints on the upper mantle structure beneath the Pacific from 3-D anisotropic waveform modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB020003. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020003

3. Kendall, E., Faccenda, M. and Ferreira, A.M.G. (2021). Anisotropy and melt from plume-lithosphere interactions beneath the Pacific. In prep for Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

4. Chang, S.‐J., Kendall, E., Davaille, A., & Ferreira, A. M. G. (2020). The evolution of mantle plumes in East Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2020JB019929. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019929

5. Steinberger, B., Rathnayake, S., Kendall, E., (2021). The Indian Ocean Geoid Low at a plume-slab overpass. Tectonophysics, 817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229037

6. Cornwell, D.G., Rost, S., Thompson, Houseman, G.A., Millar, L.A., Kendall, E.,..(2021). Variations in lithospheric anisotropy across the North Anatolian Fault revealed by teleseismic shear wave splitting (in review at GRL).

7. Turner, A. R., Ferreira, A. M. G., Berbellini, A., Brantut, N., Faccenda, M., & Kendall, E. (2022). Across-slab propagation and low stress drops of deep earthquakes in the Kuril subduction zone. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL098402. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098402

8. Download our 3-D shear-wave isotropic and radially anisotropic shear wave speed model of the Pacific upper mantle from 3-D anisotropic waveform modelling named SPacific-rani here: http://ds.iris.edu/ds/products/emc-spacific-rani/

9. Kendall, E (2019). Waveform modelling of global seismic anisotropy and geodynamical implications. PhD Thesis. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10094069/

Education:

2011-2014:     Bachelor of Physics (University of Warwick)

2014-2015:     MSc Geophysics (University College London), supervisor: Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni

Projects:

• PhD in the London NERC DTP
• Postdoc in the ERC Synergy Project MEET http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~wiscsims/ERC/MEET/

• Previous organiser of Global Geophysics Seminars at UCL
• Co-organised Big Transition Workshop (2017) at UCL    

Videos/Blogs/Outreach:

1. GFZ Section seminar: "Towards realistic models of plate tectonic evolution" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3pEU-4XVEE

2. Magnetic Mosaic: Ten female scientists will unravel some key pieces connected by the Earth’s magnetic field. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shamiOBWSLE&t=214s

3. I wrote a blog on "The Indian Ocean Geoid Low at a plume-slab overpass: https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2021/02/24/the-indian-ocean-geoid-low-at-a-plume-slab-overpass/

4. Check out by blog on why seismic images vary beneath different ocean floors? https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2022/08/28/why-do-seismic-images-vary-beneath-different-ocean-floors/

5. I wrote a blog on the use of seismic data to constrain mantle convection:https://londonnerc- dtp.org/2016/06/27/a-journey-to-the-unrest-beneath-the-earths-mantle/

Awards:

2021: Computational time (1212kNPL) on HLRN (Northern German Computing Alliance) for GFZ geodynamic modelling section 

2019: CINECA, Italy Padova Computational time: 100,000 core hours 

​2019:Short-term Scientific mission (STSM) grant  €900 

​2018:Royal Astronomical Grant £443 to present PhD results at European Geosciences Union