Stephen Hicks

Research Fellow in Computational Seismology, UCL

Stephen has a broad interest in tackling high-impact scientific problems, from deciphering earthquake rupture processes, to imaging tectonic plate boundaries, and monitoring critical changes to Earth’s surface environment using seismology. At UCL, Stephen is part of Prof Ana Ferreira’s seismology team, working as part of the EU-funded UPFLOW project, to image mantle upwellings beneath the oceans.

Stephen is also a founding member and editorial board member at the community Diamond Open-Access Journal, Seismica.

In 2024, Hicks was awarded the prestigious European Geoscience Union’s (EGU) 2024 Seismology Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Prize for his exceptional contributions to seismology, including innovative seismic imaging techniques, studies of earthquake processes as well as Earth structure, science communication and community building.

Experience

2019–present

Postdoctoral associate (Seismology), Imperial College London
2017–2019

Postdoctoral research fellow (Seismology), University of Southampton

Education

2015

University of Liverpool, PhD (Earth Sciences)
2011

University of Liverpool, MESci (Geology & Geophysics)

Publications

2017

Using beam‐forming to maximise the detection capability of small, sparse seismometer arrays deployed to monitor oilfield activities, Geophysical Prospecting
2015

Seismic slip on an upper-plate normal fault during a large subduction megathrust rupture, Nature Geoscience
2014

Anatomy of a megathrust: The 2010 M8.8 Maule, Chile earthquake rupture zone imaged using seismic tomography, Earth and Plantary Science Letters
2012

Sub-slab mantle anisotropy beneath south-central Chile, Earth and Plantary Science Letters
2012

The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule, Chile earthquake: Nucleation and rupture propagation controlled by a subducted topographic high, Geophysical Research Letters

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