


Published papers
Babadi, M., Iran Pour, S., Roscher, R., Amiri-Simkooei, A. & Karimi, H. 2022 Long-term drought monitoring of the Zayandehrud River basin (central Iran) using hydroclimatological models and satellite observations. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 16, 014504. (doi:10.1117/1.JRS.16.014504).
Brown, H., Colli, L. & Bunge, H.-P. 2022 Asthenospheric flow through the Izanagi-Pacific slab window and its influence on dynamic topography and intraplate volcanism in East Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science Volume 10 - 2022. (doi:10.3389/feart.2022.889907).
Bunge, H.-P., Horbach, A., Colli, L., Ghelichkhan, S., Vilacís, B. & Hayek, J.N. 2023 Geodynamic Data Assimilation: Techniques and Observables to Construct and Constrain Time-Dependent Earth Models. In Applications of Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems in the Earth Sciences (eds. A. Ismail-Zadeh, F. Castelli, D. Jones & S. Sanchez), pp. 311-325. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. (doi: 10.1017/9781009180412.021).
Chen, Y.-W., Wu, J., Bunge, H.-P., Stotz, I. L., Robl, G. & Schuberth, B. S. A. (2025), Tomopac2: an unfolded-slab plate reconstruction validated via mantle circulation models in a closed-loop experiment, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 481(2318) (doi: 10.1098/rspa.2024.0726)
Chen, Y.-W., Wu, J. & Goes, S. 2024 Lesser Antilles slab reconstruction reveals lateral slab transport under the Caribbean since 50 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 627, 118561. (doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118561).
Gerritsen, D., Gilder, S.A., Ludat, A.L. & Wack, M.R. 2025 Magnetostratigraphy and Source Characterisation Across the Early Miocene Unconformity, Northern Rocky Mountains, USA. Terra Nova n/a. (doi:10.1111/ter.12779).
Heller-Kaikov, B., Karimi, H., Lekshmy Raj, D., Pail, R., Hugentobler, U. & Werner, M. 2025 Signal separation in geodetic observations: satellite gravimetry. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 481, 20240820. (doi:10.1098/rspa.2024.0820).
Heller-Kaikov, B., Pail, R. & Werner, M. 2023 Signal Separation in Global, Temporal Gravity Data. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery (pp. 73–82. Hamburg, Germany, Association for Computing Machinery. (doi:10.1145/3615886.3627743)
Ilangovan, P., D’Ascoli, E., Kohl, N., Mohr, M. (2024). Numerical Studies on Coupled Stokes-Transport Systems for Mantle Convection. In: Franco, L., de Mulatier, C., Paszynski, M., Krzhizhanovskaya, V.V., Dongarra, J.J., Sloot, P.M.A. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2024. ICCS 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14834. Springer, Cham. (doi:10.1007/978-3-031-63759-9_33)
Karimi, H., Iran-Pour, S., Amiri-Simkooei, A. & Babadi, M. 2023 A gap-filling algorithm selection strategy for GRACE and GRACE Follow-On time series based on hydrological signal characteristics of the individual river basins. Journal of Geodetic Science 13. (doi:10.1515/jogs-2022-0129).
Ludat, A. L., Dusingizimana, M. W., Friedrich, A. M., Aßbichler, D., Zebari, M. & Kahle, B. 2024 Geologisch-petrologische Charakterisierung der Störungszonen im Vorderen Bayerischen Wald im Hinblick auf Datierbarkeit der Störungsaktivität. – Geologica Bavarica, 130: 56–88, Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Augsburg
Papanagnou, I., Schuberth, B.S.A. & Thomas, C. 2022 Geodynamic predictions of seismic structure and discontinuity topography of the mantle transition zone. Geophysical Journal International 234, 355-378. (doi:10.1093/gji/ggac478).
Robl, G., Schuberth, B.S.A., Papanagnou, I. & Thomas, C. 2025 From seismic models to mantle temperatures: Uncertainties related to mineralogical complexities and limited tomographic resolution. Geophysical Journal International 241, 2003-2027. (doi:10.1093/gji/ggaf141).
Stotz, I. L., Vilacís, B., Hayek, J. N., & Bunge, H.-P. 2025 Continental rift driven by asthenosphere flow and lithosphere weakening by flood basalts: South America and Africa Cenozoic rifting. Minerals, 15 (6), 644 (doi:10.3390/min15060644)
Stotz, I.L., Carena, S., Vilacı́s, B., Hayek, J.N. & Bunge, H.-P. 2024 Kerguelen Plume Drives the Eocene Directional Change in Australian Plate Motion. Lithosphere 2024. (doi:10.2113/2024/lithosphere_2023_289).
Stotz, I.L., Vilacís, B., Hayek, J.N., Carena, S. & Bunge, H.-P. 2023 Plume driven plate motion changes: New insights from the South Atlantic realm. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 124, 104257. (doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104257).
Taiwo, A., Bunge, H.-P., Schuberth, B.S.A., Colli, L. & Vilacis, B. 2023 Robust global mantle flow trajectories and their validation via dynamic topography histories. Geophysical Journal International 234, 2160-2179. (doi:10.1093/gji/ggad188)
Vilacís, B., Brown, H., Bunge, H.-P., Carena, S., Hayek, J.N., Stotz, I.L., Wang, Z.R. & Friedrich, A.M. 2024 Dynamic topography and the planform of mantle convection since the Jurassic inferred from global continental hiatus maps. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 480, 20240311. (doi:10.1098/rspa.2024.0311).
Vilacís, B., Hayek, J.N., Stotz, I.L., Bunge, H.-P., Friedrich, A.M., Carena, S. & Clark, S. 2022 Evidence for active upper mantle flow in the Atlantic and Indo-Australian realms since the Upper Jurassic from hiatus maps and spreading rate changes. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 478, 20210764. (doi:10.1098/rspa.2021.0764).
Wang, Z.R., Stotz, I.L., Bunge, H.-P., Vilacís, B., Hayek, J.N., Ghelichkhan, S. & Lebedev, S. 2023 Cenozoic upper mantle flow history of the Atlantic realm based on Couette/Poiseuille models: Towards paleo-mantle-flowgraphy. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 340, 107045. (doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2023.107045).