I am a PhD student researcher at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel. I am working with Ingo Grevemeyer, Heidrun Kopp, and Dietrich Lange. My current research uses hydroacoustic signatures of strong earthquakes in oceanic transform faults to observe the rupture styles in different oceanic faults.

Previously, I studied my undergraduation and first Master of Science degree at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, working with Aderson do Nascimento investigating the seismotectonic activity existent in St. Paul transform fault, equatorial Atlantic. Most recently, I defended my second Master of Science thesis supervised by David Sandwell at Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2022, describing the variation in Pn velocities of the uppermost mantle in the Mendocino Fracture Zone and the associations with the lithospheric age and thermal structure beneath the fracture zone.

Also, I was visiting researcher at the Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, in 2018, working with Marcia Maia in geodynamical understanding of the local seismicity in St. Paul transform. Moreover, I worked with Ross Parnell-Turner at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (in 2019) estimation of Pn velocities along transform faults and mid-ocean ridges of the equatorial Atlantic using hydroacoust records of the regional seismicity. In 2020, Won-Young Kim supervised me at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, in development of a new body wave magnitude scale for equatorial Altantic seismicity.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions: gdemelo@geomar.de