Function and Responsibilities:

Principal Investigator in projects related to the tectonics and active deformation of the Hellenic Subduction System in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Hikurangi subduction margin in New Zealand. 

Research Interests:

• Earthquake geology
• Subduction Seismogenesis
  
• Plate boundary deformation
• Fault growth
• Tectonic geomorphology
• Archaeoseismology

Career:

• 2018-now: Guest Scientist at GFZ (Lithoshpere Dynamics)
  
• 2018 – now: Senior Scientist, Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece.
• 2012-2018: Research Scientist at GFZ and Lecturer at Freie Universitat, Berlin - FU.
• 2009-2011: International Incoming Marie Curie Post Doctoral Fellow, Technical University of Crete, Greece.
• 2007-2009: IRCSET Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Fault Analysis Group, University College Dublin, Ireland. 
• 2001-2007: Researcher at GNS Science, New Zealand.
• 2003-2005: Graduate Research Demonstrator, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
  

Education:

• Ph.D. in Geology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 2003-2006
• M.Sc. in Solid Earth Physics, University of Bergen, Norway, 1998-2000
• Diploma in Geology, University of Athens, Greece, 1992-1997

Projects:

2012- present:
1) 'Studying the complex 2016 Mw7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake in New Zealand' PI, GFZ
2) 'Temporal and spatial distribution of uplift along the forearc of the segmented Hellenic subduction margin', PI, GFZ
3) Rupture history of upper-crustal faults on various time scales: the seismotectonics of the Morguilla Fault, Chilean Subduction Margin, Team Member, GFZ

BRIDGSEISMTIME: ' Bridging the timescales in fault-slip accumulation: from the earthquake record to the geological record’. Principal Investigator, Technical University of Crete, Greece.  'Fault Growth on Earthquake and Geological Timescales’. Principal Investigator, Fault Analysis Group, School of Geological Sciences, University College Dublin, Ireland. ' Geometry  Kinematics and Paleoearthquake history at the intersection of a normal and strike-slip fault system'. Principal Investigator, GNS Science & Victoria University of New Zealand.

• Dynamics of the Hikurangi Subduction Margin recorded by river terraces in the eastern North Island;
• Slip transfer between the Alpine Fault and the Marlborough Fault System;
• Impact of Global Plate Tectonics in and around New Zealand;
• Rotorua Sheet of New Zealand [Geological Mapping];
• New Zealand’s Active Fault Database.

Research Boards and Committees:

Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Tectonophysics, Journal of Structural Geology, Tectonics, Journal of Seismology, Seismological Research Letters, Geomorphology, Geoarchaeology, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Earth System Science, Journal of Geodynamics, National Science Foundation (NSF), UNESCO-IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), COST Actions.

Awards:

• 2011 Latsis Foundation Research Award – Greece (one of 18 awardees among 921 candidates across all disciplines - 1.9% success rate in 2011).
• 2009 Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship - European Commission- FP7-PEOLPLE (21% success rate in 2008).
• 2007 IRCSET Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by the Irish Research Council for Science and Technology (12% success rate in 2006).
• 2004 Bright Future PhD Scholarship, awarded by the Foundation for Research Science and Technology in New Zealand.
• 2006 Merit Award for oral presentation at the Annual conference of the Geological Society of New Zealand.

 

Peer Reviewed International Publications

Nicol, A., Begg, J., Saltogianni, V., Mouslopoulou, V., Oncken, O., Howell, A., 2022. Uplift and fault slip during the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake and Late Quaternary, Kaikōura Peninsula, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics: Kaikōura Earthquake Special Issue, https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2021.2021955.

Veliz, V., *Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Begg, J., Oncken, O., 2022. Normal faulting along the Kythira-Antikythira Strait, southwest Hellenic forearc, Greece. Front. Earth Sci. 9:730806.doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.730806 

Saltogianni, V., Mouslopoulou, V., Dielforder, A., Bocchini, G-M., Bedford, J., Oncken, O., 2021. Slow slip triggers the 2018 M_w 6.9 Zakynthos Earthquake within the weakly locked Hellenic Subduction System, Greece. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2021GC010090, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010090     

Olivotos, S., Niedermann, S., Flügel, T., Mouslopoulou, V., Merchel, S., Cotterill,F., Bookhagen, B., Gärtner,A., Rugel, G., Scharf, A., Nadeau, M-J., Braucher, R., Seiler, M,  2021. Quaternary landscape evolution in a tectonically active rift basin (paleo-lake Mweru, south-central Africa). Geomorphology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107669 

Petersen, G. M., Niemz, P., Cesca, S., Mouslopoulou, V., Bocchini, G-M., 2020. Clusty, the waveform-based network similarity clustering toolbox: Concept and application to image complex faulting offshore Zakynthos (Greece), Geophysical Journal International, ggaa568, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa568

Mouslopoulou, V., Bocchini, G.-M., Cesca, S., Saltogianni, V., Bedford, J., Petersen, G., Gianniou, M., Oncken, O., 2020. Earthquake-swarms, slow-slip and fault-interactions at the western-end of the Hellenic Subduction System precede the M6.9 Zakynthos Earthquake, Greece. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2020GC009243, doi:10.1029/2020GC009243

Nicol, A., Mouslopoulou, V., Begg, J., Oncken, O., 2020. Displacement accumulation and sampling of paleoearthquakes on active normal faults of Crete in the eastern Mediterranean. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2020GC009265, doi: 10.1029/2020GC009265

Saltogianni, V., Mouslopoulou, V., Oncken, O., Nicol, A., Gianniou, M., Mertikas, S., 2020. Elastic fault interactions and earthquake-rupture along the southern Hellenic subduction plate-interface zone in Greece. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL086604,  doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086604.

Konstantinou, K.I., Mouslopoulou, V., Saltogianni, V., 2020. Seismicity and Active Faulting around the Metropolitan Area of Athens, Greece. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 110, 1924-1941, doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120200039

Reid, C., Begg, J., *Mouslopoulou, V., Oncken, O., Nicol, A., Kufner, K-S., 2020. Using a calibrated upper living position of marine biota to calculate coseismic uplift: a case study of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand. Earth Surface Dynamics, 8, 351–366, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-351-2020.

Mouslopoulou, V., Saltogianni, V., Nicol, A., Oncken, O., Begg, J., Babeyko, A., Cesca, S., Moreno, M., 2019. Breaking a subduction-termination from top-to-bottom: the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 506, 221-230, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.10.020.

Veliz, V., Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Fassoulas, B., Begg, J., Onkcen, O, 2018. Millenial to million normal-fault interactions on the forearc of a subduction margin, Crete, Greece. Journal of Structural Geology, 113, 225-241.

Cesca, S., Zhang, Y., Mouslopoulou, V., Wang, R., Saul, J., Savage, M., Heimann, S., Kufner, S.-K., Oncken, O., Dahm, T., 2017. Complex rupture process of the Mw 7.8, 2016, Kaikoura earthquake, New Zealand, and its aftershock sequence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 478, 110-120, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.08.024.

Mouslopoulou, V., Begg, J., Fülling, A., Moraetis, D., Partsinevelos, P., and Oncken, O.: Distinct phases of eustatic and tectonic forcing for late Quaternary landscape evolution in southwest Crete, Greece, Earth Surf. Dynam., 5, 511-527, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-511-2017, 2017.

Konstantinou, K., Mouslopoulou, V., Liang, W-T., Heidbach, O., Oncken, O., Suppe, J., 2017. Present-day crustal stress field in Greece inferred from regional-scale damped inversion of earthquake focal mechanisms. Journal of Geophysical Research, 122, 506-523, doi:10.1002/2016JB013272.

Mouslopoulou, V., Oncken, O., Hainzl, S., Nicol, A., 2016. Uplift rate transients at subduction margins due to earthquake clustering. Tectonics, 35, 2370–2384, doi:10.1002/2016TC004248.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Begg, J.,Oncken, O., Moreno, M., 2015.Clusters of mega-earthquakes on upper plate faults control the Eastern Mediterranean hazard. Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 10,282–10,289, doi:10.1002/2015GL066371. [see also: Mediterranean quake risk rises. Nature 528, page 166].

Mouslopoulou, V., Begg, J., Nicol, A., Oncken, O., Prior, C., 2015. Formation of Late Quaternary paleoshorelines in Crete, Eastern Mediterranean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 431, 294-307, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.09.007.

Mouslopoulou, V., Saltogianni, V., Gianniou, M, Stiros, S., 2014. Geodetic evidence for tectonic activity on the Strymon Fault System, northeast Greece. Tectonophysics, 633, 246-255, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2014.07.012.

Mouslopoulou, V., Moraetis, D., Benedetti, L., Guillou, V., Bellier, O., Hristopulos, D., 2014. Normal faulting in the forearc of the Hellenic subduction margin: Paleoearthquake history and kinematics of the Spili Fault, Crete, Greece. Journal of Structural Geology, 66, 298-308, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2014.05.017.

Giba, M., Walsh, J.J., Nicol, A., Mouslopoulou, V., Seebeck, H., 2013. Spatio-temporal relationships between normal faulting and arc volcanism on million year timescales along a subduction margin.Journal of the Geological Society London, 170, 951-962, doi: 10.1144/jgs2012-121.

Mouslopoulou, V., Hristopulos, D.T., Nicol, A., Walsh, J.J., Bannister, S., 2013. The importance of microearthquakes in crustal extension of an active rift: a case study from New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 1556-1568, 10.1002/jgrb.50062.

Hristopulos, D., Mouslopoulou, V., 2013. A stochastic stick-slip model linking crustal shear strength and earthquake interevent times. Physica A, 392, 485-496, doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2012.09.011.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Walsh, J.J., Begg, J.G., Townsend, D.B., Hristopulos, D.T., 2012. Fault-slip accumulation in an active rift over thousands to millions of years and the importance of paleoearthquake sampling. Journal of Structural Geology, 36, 71-80, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2011.11.010.

Mouslopoulou, V., Moraetis, D., Fassoulas, C., 2011. Identifying past earthquakes on carbonate faults: advances and limitations of the Rare Earth Element method based on analysis of the Spili Fault, Crete, Greece. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 309, 45-55, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.06.015.

Mouslopoulou, V., Hristopulos, D.T., 2011. Patterns of tectonic fault interactions captured through variogram analyses of microearthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, B07305, doi: 10.1029/2010JB007804.

Townsend, D., Nicol, A., Mouslopoulou, V., Begg, J.G., Beetham, R.D., Clark, D., Giba, M., Heron, D., Lukovic, B., McPherson, A., Seebeck, H., Walsh, J.J., 2010. Paleoearthquake histories across a normal fault system in the southwestern Taranaki Peninsula, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 53, 4, 375-394.

Begg, J.G., Mouslopoulou, V., 2010. Analysis of late Holocene faulting within an active rift using lidar, Taupo Rift, New Zealand. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 190, 152–167, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.06.001.

Nicol, A., Walsh, J.J., Mouslopoulou, V., Villamor, P., 2009. Earthquake histories and Holocene acceleration of fault displacement rates. Geology, 37, 911–914, doi:10.1130/G25765A.1.

Mouslopoulou, V., Walsh, J.J., Nicol, A., 2009. Fault displacement rates on a range of timescales. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 278, 186-197.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T.A., Begg, J., 2009. Paleoearthquake surface rupture in a transition zone from strike-slip to oblique-normal slip and its implication to seismic hazard, North Island Fault System, New Zealand. In: Reicherter, K., Michetti, A.M. & Silva Barroso, P.G. (eds) Palaeoseismology: Historical and Prehistorical Records of Earthquake Ground Effects for Seismic Hazard Assessment. Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 316, 269-292.

Begg, J.G., Van Dissen, R.J., Nicol, A., Mouslopoulou, V., 2008. Characteristics of the Pacific-Australian Tectonic Plate Interface in New Zealand. In: Graham, I. (eds), New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century. Geological Society of New Zealand, Miscell. Pub., 124, 388 pp, ISBN 978-1-877480-00-3.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Walsh, J.J., Beetham, D., Stagpoole, V., 2008. Quaternary temporal stability of a regional strike-slip and rift fault intersection. Journal of Structural Geology, 30, 4, 451-463.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T.A., Walsh, J.J, 2007. Terminations of large strike-slip faults: an alternative model from New Zealand. In: Cunningham, W. D. & Mann, P. (eds), Tectonics of Strike-Slip Restraining and Releasing Bends. Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 290, 387–415.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T.A., Walsh, J.J., 2007. Displacement transfer between intersecting strike-slip and extensional fault systems. Journal of Structural Geology, 29, 100-116.

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Selected International Conferences (oral presentations)

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Walsh, J., 2020: Millennial to million year slip-rate variations on active faults (Solicited Plenary Talk), In: ‘New directions in earthquake science’, Southern California Earthquake Centre Annual Meeting (2020 SCEC Annual Meeting), 12-17 September, California, 2020. Talk VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js7FFLnSYpI&feature=youtu.be

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Oncken, O., Walsh, J., 2019: Transient fault-slip accumulation on continental fault systems and active subduction margins (solicited talk), Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 21, EGU2019-6527, 2019EGU General Assembly 2019.

Mouslopoulou, V., Saltogianni, V., Nicol, A., Oncken, O., Begg, J., Babeyko, A., Cesca, S., Moreno, M., 2019. Breaking a subduction-termination from top-to-bottom: the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake. American Geophysical Union (AGU), 12-16 December 2018, Washington D.C., USA.

Mouslopoulou, V., Saltogianni, V., Nicol, A., Oncken, O., Begg, B., Moreno, M., Cesca, S., 2018. The 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake: a rare snapshot of coseismic-slip transfer between the plate-interface and faults in the upper-crust. EGU General Assembly 2018, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-3703,  8-13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Moreno, M., Oncken, O., Begg, J., S-K Kufner. Large-scale fault interactions at the termination of a subduction margin: the case study of the M7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake in New Zealand. American Geophysical Union (AGU), 10-15 December 2017, New Orleans, USA.

Mouslopoulou, V., Oncken, O., Hainzl, S., Nicol, A., Moreno, M., Begg, J., 2016. Earthquake clustering on upper-plate faults and the subduction thrust controls uplift rate transients and long-term forearc topography along subduction margins. American Geophysical Union (AGU), 12-16 December 2016, San Francisco, USA.

Walsh, J., Nicol, A., Childs, C., Mouslopoulou, V., Manzocchi, T., 2016. Keynote: The importance of fault interactions in the long-term and short-term growth of fault systems. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, Vol. L, 2358-2359, Proceedings of the 14th International Congress, 25-27 May 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Mouslopoulou, V., Saltogianni, V., Gianniou, M, Stiros, S., 2015. Geodetic evidence for tectonic activity on the Strymon Fault System, northeast Greece. SafeChania, 2^nd International Conference: The Triangle of Knowledge in the Civil Protection Service, Chania 10-14 June, 2015.

Moraetis, D., Mouslopoulou, V., Pratikakis, A., 2015. Sorption of the Rare Earth Elements and Yttrium (REE-Y) in calcite: the mechanism of a new effective tool in identifying paleoearthquakes on carbonate faults. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 13-17 April 2015: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-3437, 2015.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Begg, J., Oncken, O., Moreno, M., Prior, C., 2015. High uplift-transients indicate clusters of mega-earthquakes in Eastern Mediterranean during the last 50 kyr.  European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 13-17 April 2015: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-2477, 2015.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Begg, J., Prior, C., Oncken, O., 2014. Earthquake variability produces long-term stability of uplift rates along the Hellenic subduction margin. In: Interdisciplinary meeting on climate change and seismic hazards during the Holocene in the Mediterranean, July 7-8, 2014 CEREGE, Technopôle de l’Arbois, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2014.

Mouslopoulou, V., Gianniou, M, Saltogianni, V., Stiros, S., 2014. Geodetic evidence for tectonic activity on the Strymon Fault System, northeast Greece. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 8-12 April 2014: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-3079, 2014.

Mouslopoulou, V., Hristopulos, D., Nicol, A., Walsh, J., Bannister, S., 2013. The importance of microearthquakes in crustal extension of an active rift: a case-study from New Zealand (solicited talk). European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 8-12 April 2013: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 15, EGU2013-5230, 2013.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Walsh, J., Begg, J.G., Townsend, D., Hristopulos, D., 2013. Fault-slip accumulation in an active rift over thousands to millions of years and the importance of paleoearthquake sampling. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 8-12 April 2013: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 15, EGU2013-5434, 2013.

Mouslopoulou, V., Moraetis, D., Lucilla, B., Guillou, V., Hristopulos, D., 2013. Paleoearthquake history of the Spili Fault, Crete. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, XLVII, 1-9.

Mouslopoulou, V., Moraetis, D, Lucilla B., Fassoulas, C., Hristopulos, D.T., 2012. Is the Spili Fault responsible for the double destruction of the Minoan Palace at Phaistos?, 1^st workshop of Arhaeopaleoseismology: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Minoan earthquakes, Leuven, 28-30 November, Belgium.

Nicol, A., Begg, JG., Mouslopoulou, V., Stirling, M., Townsend, D., Van Dissen, R, Walsh, J, 2011. Active faults in New Zealand: what are we missing? Geological Society of New Zealand Miscell. Publication 127A, p.79, ISBN 978-1-877480-13-3.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Walsh, J., Begg, J.G., Townsend, D., Hristopulos, D., 2011. ‘Sampling biases in the paleoseismological data’ In: Earthquake Geology and Archaeology: Science, Society and Critical facilities. (Edited by Grützner, C., Perez-Lopez, R., Fernandez-Steeger, T., Papanikolaou, I., Reicherter, K., Silva, P.G. and Vött, A.), Proceedings of the 2nd INQUA-IGCP 567 International Workshop, Corinth, 290, 148-151, ISBN 978-960-466-093-3.

Hristopulos, D., Mouslopoulou, V., 2011. On the use of the Weibull distribution as a model for the distribution of earthquake interevent times. International conference on statistical physics, Larnaka 11-15, July 2011.

Mouslopoulou, V., 2011.Relations between paleoearthquakes and million year fault growth (solicited talk). IODP Marmara-Trans Workshop, Istanbul Technical University, 12-16 June, Istanbul, Turkey.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Walsh, J., Townsend, D., Begg, J., Heron, D., Beetham, D., Hristopulos, D., 2010. Relations between paleoearthquakes and million-year fault growth in an active rift (solicited talk), in ‘Submarine Paleoseismology: the offshore search for large Holocene earthquakes’, European Science Foundation, Obergurgl, 11-16 September, Austria.

Mouslopoulou, V., Hristopulos, D., 2010. Patterns of fault interactions triggered by micro earthquake activity. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 2-7 May 2010: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-3035, 2010.

Mouslopoulou, V., Walsh, J.J., Nicol, A., 2009. Fault displacement rates on a range of timescales. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 19-24 April 2009: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009-5761-1, 2009.

Mouslopoulou,V., Hristopulos, D.T., Bannister, S., 2009. Fault interactions and patterns of short-term fault growth due to micro-earthquakes. StatGIS 2009: Geoinformatics for Environment Surveillance, June 17-19, 2009, Milos, Greece.

Nicol, A., Walsh, J.J., Mouslopoulou, V., Villamor, P., 2008. An explanation for the widespread acceleration of fault displacement rates since 10 ka. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscell. Publication 124A, p.110.

Mouslopoulou, V., Walsh, J.J., Nicol, A., 2008. Fault displacement rates over different timescales (Keynote): 33rd International Geological Congress (IGC), Oslo, Norway, August 6-14, 2008: abstracts (no.STT01106L).

Walsh, J.J., Nicol, A., Mouslopoulou, V., 2008. The role of interaction on the growth of faults on geological and earthquake time scales (Keynote): New Challenges In Earthquake Dynamics: Observing And Modelling A MultiScale System, European Sciences Foundation, Innsbruck, October 2008.

Nicol, A., Walsh, J.J., Childs, C., Mouslopoulou, V., & Schöpfer, M.P.J., 2008. Interactions and growth of faults on earthquake and geological timescales. Fault Zones Structure, Mechanics and Fluid Flow, Geological Society of London, September 2008.

Begg, J.G., Mouslopoulou, V., 2007. Rangitaiki plains: the veil is lifted. New LiDAR data from Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscell. Pub. 123A, ISBN 0-908678-08-8.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T.A., Begg, J., 2007.Paleoearthquake surface rupture in a transition zone from strike-slip to oblique-normal faulting. International Union of Geodesy & Geophysics (IUGG) XXIV General Assembly 2007, 1-12 July, Perugia, Italy, ISBN 978-88-95852-25-4.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T.A., 2006. Quaternary kinematics and temporal stability of a strike-slip and normal fault intersection, North Island, New Zealand. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscell. Pub. 122A, ISBN 0-908678-05-3.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T., Beetham, D., Berryman, K., Langridge R., Villamor, P., Beanland, S., 2005. Late Quaternary paleoearthquakes on the northern North Island Fault System, New Zealand. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscell. Pub. 119A., ISBN 0-908678-01-0.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T., Berryman, K., Walsh, J., 2005. Displacement transfer between strike-slip and extensional fault systems: an example from New Zealand. Bulnay & Bogd  International Field Conference, Mongolia.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T., 2004. Relations between fault kinematics and paleoearthquakes in a transition zone from strike-slip to normal faulting, North Island, New Zealand. Abstract no. 271-17 In: Italia 2004:32nd International Geological Congress (IGC) Florence, Italy, August 20-28, 2004: abstracts.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T., Berryman, K., Walsh, J., 2004. Fault interactions and slip transfer between the North Island Dextral Fault Belt and the Taupo Rift, New Zealand. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscell. Pub. 117A, ISBN 0-908678-98-3.

Mouslopoulou, V., Little, T., Nicol, A., 2003 Along strike changes in slip pattern of strike-slip faults: preliminary observations from the northern North Island Dextral fault belt. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscell. Pub. 116A, ISBN 0-908678-96-7.

Mouslopoulou, V., 2003. Along-strike changes in slip pattern of strike-slip faults: a comparative study of the North Island Fault System (New Zealand) & the western North Anatolian Fault (eastern Mediterranean). p.141 In: International Workshop on the North Anatolian, East Anatolian & Dead Sea Fault Systems: Recent Progress in Tectonics and Paleoseismology and Field Training Course in Paleoseismology, 31 August-12 September 2003, METU-Ankara, Turkey: programme & abstracts. Ankara, Turkey.

Mouslopoulou, V., Berryman, K., Stirling, M., 2001: Active Faulting in New Zealand: the twenty most active faults in New Zealand. International Lithospheric Project, 10-15 December: programme & abstracts, Kaikoura, New Zealand.

Mouslopoulou, V., Andreou C., Atakan, K., Fountoulis, I., 1999. “Paleoseismological investigation along the Kera fault zone, Western Crete: Implication for Seismic Hazard Assessment” International Conference on Earthquake Hazard and Risk in the Mediterranean Region, 18-22 October: programme & abstracts, Nicosia, Cyprus.

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Invited Lectures

• Southern California Earthquake Centre (SCEC), USA: Millennial to million year slip-rate variations on active faults, September 17th, 2020. (Invited Plenary Talk), In: ‘New directions in earthquake science’, Southern California Earthquake Centre Annual Meeting (2020 SCEC Annual Meeting), 12-17 September, California, 2020. Talk VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js7FFLnSYpI&feature=youtu.be
• European Geosciences Union (EGU), Austria:Transient fault-slip accumulation on continental fault systems and active subduction margins, April 2019.
• National and Technical University of Athens, Greece: Identifying large subduction paleoearthquakes along the Hellenic Subduction Zone, May 28th, 2019.
• Geological Society of Austria, Austria: Paleoearthquakes, sampling biases and growth of active normal faults on Crete, Greece, May 23rd, 2019.
• Hellenic Petroleum (ELPE), Athens, Greece: ‘The importance of upper-plate splay thrust faults in subduction seismogenesis’, November 28th, 2018.
• GFZ, Potsdam, Germany: Breaking a subduction termination from top-to-bottom: the large Kaikoura Earthquake, October 24th, 2018.
• GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, Transients Workshop: Transient fault-slip accumulation on upper-plate subduction thrust faults: how common is it?’, May 2017.
• GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, Faults Workshop: ’Clusters of mega-earthquakes on upper plate faults control the Eastern Mediterranean hazard ‘, March 2016.
• GNS Science, New Zealand: ‘Earthquake clustering on upper-plate faults controls uplift rate transients along subduction margins’, February 2016.

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel: 'Late Quaternary paleoshoreline formation on Crete, eastern Mediterranean’, January 2015.

• Freie University (FU), Berlin, Germany: ‘Clusters of mega-earthquakes on upper plate faults control the Eastern Mediterranean hazard’, May 2015.

• University of Marseille (Aix en Provence): Earthquake variability produces long-term stability of uplift rates along the Hellenic subduction margin, July 2014.

• University of Patras, Greece: ‘The importance of microearthquakes in crustal extension of an active rift: a case-study from New Zealand’, November 2013.

• Freie University (FU), Berlin, Germany: ‘Fault-slip accumulation over thousands to millions of years and the importance of paleoearthquake sampling’, May 2013.

• European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria: ‘The importance of microearthquakes in crustal extension of an active rift: a case-study from New Zealand’, April 2013.

• German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany: ‘Paleoearthquake history on the Spili Fault and its relation to the destruction of ancient and modern cities on the island of Crete, Greece’, March 2013.

• University of Leuven, Belgium: ‘Is the Spili fault, Crete, responsible for the double destruction of the Minoan palace at Phaistos?’, November 2012.

• Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany: ‘Growth and interaction of faults over earthquake and geological timescales’, August 2012.

• Plymouth University, School of Environment, Geography and Earth Sciences, United Kingdom: ‘Active faulting over earthquake and geological timescales’, July 2012. 

• University of Liverpool, School of Environmental Sciences, United Kingdom: ‘Growth and interaction of faults over earthquake and geological timescales’, June 2012.

• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Department of Engineering and Earth Sciences, Saudi Arabia: ‘Relations between paleoearthquakes and million year fault growth’, May 2012.

• Otago University, Department of Geology, New Zealand: ‘Relations between paleoearthquakes and million year fault growth’, March 2012.

• National Taiwan University, Department of Geosciences, Taipei, Taiwan: ‘Paleoearthquakes and million-year fault growth in an active rift and the importance of paleoseismic sampling’, December 2011.

• Istanbul Technical University, invited to IODP Marmara-Trans Workshop by IODP association and Queens College, the University of New York, 12-16 June 2011, Istanbul, Turkey: ‘Relations between paleoearthquakes and million year fault growth’, June 2011.

• CEREGE, CNRS (National Centre of Scientific Research), Universite´ Paul Ce´zanne Aix en Provence, France: ‘Relations between paleoearthquakes and million year fault growth in an active rift’, March 2011.

• Technical University of Crete, Greece: ‘Fault growth over different timescales: the Taranaki Rift study case’, May 2010.

• Technical University of Crete, Greece: ‘Bridging the timescales in fault-slip accumulation: from the earthquake record to the geological record’, May 2009.

• Keynote speaker at 33rd International Geological Congress (IGC), Oslo, Norway (2008 August 6-14) for the talk “Fault displacement rates over different timescales”.
  

• Technical University of Crete, Greece: “Faults, Earthquakes and Mineralisation”, March 2008.

• Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi (the Māori University), New Zealand: “Active faulting in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand”, June 2005. 

• University of Athens, Greece: “An introduction to Earthquake Geology and Paleoseismology in New Zealand”, October 2002.