Member Since 2008
Ylona van Dinther
Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
Professional Experience
Utrecht University
Assistant Professor
Education
Doctorate
2014
Honors & Awards
Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Received 2018
Ylona van Dinther is one of the few people in her generation who has pushed the research community into “big challenges” directions. She has distinguished herself by conducting groundbreaking research in quantitative tectonophysics.
Ylona developed a...
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Publications
Characteristics of Earthquake Cycles: A Cross‐Dimensional Comparison of 0D to 3D Numerical Models
High‐resolution computer simulations of earthquake sequences in three or even two dimensions pose great demands on time and energy, making lo...
August 19, 2022
Earthquake Rupture on Multiple Splay Faults and Its Effect o...
August 16, 2022
The Role of Sediment Accretion and Buoyancy on Subduction Dy...
October 26, 2021
Slab Rollback Orogeny Model: A Test of Concept
September 15, 2020
AGU Abstracts
Earthquake nucleation location and slip behavior altered by normal stress heterogeneities
ORIGINS AND IMPLICATIONS OF HETEROGENEITIES IN DRY AND FLUID-PRESSURIZED FAULT ZONES ACROSS SCALES II ORAL
tectonophysics | 15 december 2023
Meng Li, Andre R. Niemeijer, Ylona van Dinther
A diverse spectrum of slip behaviors occurs prior to and between earthquakes, including foreshocks and slow slip events. Laboratory, field and numeric...
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Community Code Verification Exercises for Simulations of Earthquake Sequences and Aseismic Slip (SEAS): Effects from Dipping Faults and Full Elastodynamics to Fluids and Fault Friction Evolution
SLOW-TO-FAST EARTHQUAKES FROM SHALLOW TO DEEP: OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, AND NUMERICAL MODELING IV POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Valere Lambert, Brittany A. Erickson, Junle Jiang,...
Numerical simulations of sequences of earthquakes and aseismic slip (SEAS) have rapidly progressed over recent decades to address fundamental problems...
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Why induced earthquakes occur on conventionally stable faults: frictional healing explains
BRIDGING FIELD AND LABORATORY STUDIES TO UNVEIL THE MECHANISMS OF UNSTABLE FAULT SLIP I ORAL
tectonophysics | 12 december 2023
Meng Li, Andre R. Niemeijer, Ylona van Dinther
Conventional laboratory experiments suggest that faults in the shallow subsurface should be resistant to earthquake nucleation, because their friction...
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Volunteer History
2018 - 2022
Associate Editor
JGR Solid Earth Section
2020 - 2021
Early Career Scientist
Tectonophysics Executive Committee
2019 - 2020
Member
Tectonophysics Early Career & OSPA Committee
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