Function and Responsibilities:

Research Interests:

I am generally interested in lithosphere dynamics, plate tectonics, surface processes and their intricate links. Currently, I working on the role of crustal and lithospheric scale inheritance (structural, rheological or thermal) and its effects on subsequent phases of deformation (rifting or orogeny). I mainly use numerical modelling tools to study these processes.

Some of my recent publications:

Erdős, Z., S. Buiter, and T. Joya (2024), Exploring the accretion of multiple microcontinents using numerical models, in ESS Open Archive, edited, doi:10.22541/essoar.171629621.10603551/v1.

Erdős, Z., R. S. Huismans and C. Faccenna (2022) Wide versus narrow back-arc rifting: control of subduction velocity and convective back-arc thinning, Tectonics, 41, doi:10.1029/2021TC006795

Erdős, Z., R. S. Huismans, C. Faccenna and S. Wolf, (2021) The Role of Subduction Interface and Upper Plate Strength on Back‐Arc Extension: Application to Mediterranean Back‐Arc Basins, Tectonics, 40, doi:10.1029/2021tc006795

Career:

2021 -             Postdoctoral researcher at RWTH Aachen/GFZ Potsdam, Germany

                       Research topic: Numerical modeling of rift processes

                       Teaching: co-developing and co-teaching Master’s level courses

                       Supervision: co-supervising a Master’s and a PhD student

2019 - 2020    Research fellow at Geological and Geophysical Institute of Hungary, Sopron

                       Research topic: Exploring the role of pargasite in lithosphere dynamics

2016 - 2019    Postdoctoral fellow at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

                     Research topic: Numerical modelling of back-arc rifting Principal Investigator

                     Teaching: Developing course content and teaching several Master’s and Bachelor’s level courses and co-organizing field courses

                     Supervision: 3 Master’s students and 4 Bachelor’s students

2015 - 2016    Research fellow at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

                     Research topic: Modelling lithospheric flexure in the Pannonian basin

                     Teaching: Co-teaching one Master’s level course

2009 - 2014    Junior research fellow at University of Bergen, Norway and at Université Grenoble Alpes, France

                       Research topic: Studying the effects of surface-processes and extensional inheritance on the structural style of mountain building

                     Teaching: Assisting Master’s and Bachelor’s level courses

Education:

2009 - 2014    PhD in Structural Geology                         UiB, Norway and UJF, France

                       Thesis: Coupled surface process and tectonic modelling of extension-inversion tectonics in the Pyrenees

2004 - 2009    Master's equivalent in Geophysics            Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

                       Thesis: Seismic coherence algorithms as a tool of improving the resolution of 3D seismic data