Member Since 2013
Ameha Atnafu Muluneh
Addis Ababa University
Professional Experience
Addis Ababa University
2020 - Present
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Researcher
2021 - 2023
Addis Ababa University
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Education
Doctorate
2014
Honors & Awards
Africa Award for Research Excellence in Earth and Ocean Sciences
Received 2020
Dr. Ameha Atnafu Muluneh is an early-career
Ethiopian geoscientist who uses data and models to improve our
understanding of continental rifting processes in Africa, with
implications for rifting and passive margin formation worldwide.In the past 6...
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Publications
Analog and Numerical Modeling of Rift‐Rift‐Rift Triple Junctions
Rift‐Rift‐Rift triple junctions are key features of emergent plate boundary networks during fragmentation of a continent. A key example...
October 13, 2022
The Opportunities of Working in a Challenging Environment
August 23, 2021
Tectonics of the Asela‐Langano Margin, Main Ethiopian Rift (...
August 08, 2020
AGU Abstracts
The links between rotational rifting and the evolution of the East African Rift System: insights from laboratory experiments
ANALOGUE AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF CONTINENTAL RIFTING PROCESSES POSTER
tectonophysics | 11 december 2023
Frank Zwaan, Guido Schreurs, Ameha A. Muluneh
The East African Rift System (EARS) splits the African continent in two plates: the Nubian Plate situated to the west, and the Somalian Plate to the e...
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Linkage between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden rifts in central Afar: A 3D numerical modeling approach
ANALOGUE AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF CONTINENTAL RIFTING PROCESSES POSTER
tectonophysics | 11 december 2023
Ameha A. Muluneh, Sascha Brune, Derek Keir, Tesfay...
The Afar rift, in East Africa, is a classic natural laboratory to understand rift dynamics during continental break-up and the formation of sea-floor ...
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Role of surface processes in controlling the evolution of rifting in Ethiopia
FROM DEEP LITHOSPHERE TO EARTH SURFACE PROCESS; THE NATURAL LABORATORY OF THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT I ORAL
tectonophysics | 15 december 2022
Ameha A. Muluneh, Sascha Brune, Giacomo Corti, Der...
Several field and modelling observations indicate that surface processes (erosion and sedimentation) can affect the timing of major rift phases. The M...
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