Jiri Zahradnik
Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague
Mail address: KG MFF UK, V Holesovickach 2, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic
Phone: (+420-2) 2191 2546
FAX: (+420-2) 2191 2555
E-mail: jz@karel.troja.mff.cuni.cz
Personal data and positions held:
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Born June 11, 1947 in Prague; Czech nationality
1966-1970: Studies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Prague
1970: RNDr degree (equivalent to MSc)
1976: CSc degree (equivalent to PhD)
2001: DrSc degree
1970: Research assistant
1975: Assistant professor
1992: Associate professor
2006: Professor of Geophysics
1993-2006: Head of the Department of Geophysics
2006-2010: Vice-Head of the Department of Geophysics
Visits abroad:
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Soviet Union 1976, Peru 1982, Canada 1984, 1989, 1991, Sweden, Costa Rica, Greece
Membership:
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Seismological Society of America
Member of the Scientific Council of the Geophys. Inst. Acad. Sci. Czech Rep. (1993-2001)
Member of the Institution Council of the Geophys. Inst. Acad. Sci. Czech Rep. (since 2008)
Member of the Evaluation panel P210 of the Grant Agency of the Czech Rep. (since 2009)
Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (since 2005)
Remote referee of the European Research Council (since 2007)
Associate Editor of the Journal of Seismology (Springer) (since 2002)
Vice-President of the European Seismological Commission (2004-2006)
Teaching:
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Till 2002: Introduction to geophysics. Internal constitution of the Earth. Numerical methods in geophysics.
Seismology. Physics of the seismic source. Numerical prediction of earthquake ground motions. Physics of
the Earth (for the Faculty of Science). Seismic seminar.
2002-present: Seismology I and II, Seismic seminar
Supervisor: 25 MSc students and 8 PhD students (3 defended, 2 continuing)
Vice chairman of the commission for PhD defenses in geophysics
Chairman of the commission for MSc state examinations in geophysics
Research interests:
Numerical methods in seismic wave propagation (the finite-difference method). Seismic site effects, international
blind prediction experiments. Seismic source parameter retrieval. Modeling finite-extent seismic sources. Strongground motion simulation. Operation of seismic stations and data analysis.
Research projects:
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1995-1998 NATO, GR-COAL project (leader of the Prague team)
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1997-1999 Inco-Copernicus ISMOD project (leader of the Prague team)
2000-2003 EC project PRESAP (responsible for a work package and leader of the Prague team)
2005-2006 EC project 3HAZ-CORINTH (leader of the Prague team)
2003-2005 EC FP6 project MAGMA, Prague Centre of Mathematical Geophysics, Meteorology, and their
Applications, (project coordinator)
A number of national projects of various grant agencies: GACR, GAUK, MSMT
1997-present building seismic stations of the Charles University in Greece (in co-operation with the
University of Patras)
Publications:
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57 papers in reviewed journals (according WoS)
of about 90 papers in conference proceedings and reports
230 citations (according WoS, without self-citations)
H-index: 11
Software:
 ISOLA code to calculate centroid moment tensors and slip inversion
(http://seismo.geology.upatras.gr/isola/)
Recent papers (after 2005):
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Zahradník, J., Gallovič, F. (2010): Toward understanding slip-inversion uncertainty and artifacts. J.
Geophys. Res. 115, B09310, 2010. PDF
Zahradník, J., Plešinger, A. (2010). Toward understanding subtle instrumentation effects associated with
weak seismic events in the near field. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 100, 59-73. PDF
Serpetsidaki, A., Sokos, E., Tselentis, G.-A., Zahradnik, J. (2010). Seismic sequence near Zakynthos
Island, Greece, April 2006: Identification of the activated fault plane. Tectonophysics 480, 23-32. PDF
Gallovič, F., Zahradník, J., Křížová, D., Plicka, V., Sokos, E., Serpetsidaki, A., Tselentis, G-A. (2009).
From Earthquake Centroid to Spatial-Temporal Rupture Evolution: Mw 6.3 Movri Mountain earthquake,
June 8, 2008, Greece. Geoph. Res. Lett. 36, L21310. PDF; Appendix PDF
Janský, J,, Zahradník, J., Plicka, V. (2009). Efficiency of individual CRL stations in seismic monitoring of
the Western Gulf of Corinth. Acta Geodyn. Geomater., 6, 1-8, 2009. PDF
Janský, J., Zahradník, J., Plicka, V. (2009). Shallow earthquakes: shallower than expected? Stud. Geophys.
Geod., 53 (2009), 261-268 (a non-reviewed article). PDF
Adamová, P., Sokos E., Zahradník, J. (2009). Problematic non-double-couple mechanism of the
Amfilochia Mw5 earthquake, Western Greece, J. Seismology., 13, 1-12. PDF
Zahradník, J., Gallovič, F., Sokos, E., Serpetsidaki, A., Tselentis, G-A. (2008). Quick fault-plane
identification by a geometrical method: application to the Mw6.2 Leonidio earthquake, January 6, 2008,
Greece. Seismol. Res. Letters 79, 653-662. PDF
Zahradník, J., Sokos, E., Tselentis, G.-A., Martakis, N. (2008). Non-double-couple mechanism of moderate
earthquakes near Zakynthos, April 2006, explanation in terms of complexity, Geophys. Prosp. 56, 341356. PDF
Zahradník J., Janský J., Plicka V. (2008). Detailed waveform inversion for moment tensors of M~4 events;
examples from the Corinth Gulf, Greece, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 98, 2756-2771. PDF
Sokos, E. Zahradník, J., (2008). ISOLA a Fortran code and a Matlab GUI to perform multiple-point source
inversion of seismic data, Computers and Geosciences, 34, 967-977. PDF
Burjánek, J., Zahradník, J. (2007). Dynamic stress field of a kinematic earthquake source model with ksquared slip distribution, Geophys. J. Int. 171, 1082-1097. PDF
Bernard P., Lyon-Caen H., Briole P., Deschamps A., Boudin F., Makropoulos K., Papadimitriou P.,
Lemeille F., Patau L., Billiris J., Paradissis D., Papazissi K., Castarède H., Charade O., Nercessian A.,
Avallone A., Pacchiani F., Zahradnik J., Sacks S., Linde A. (2006). Seismicity, deformation and seismic
hazard in the western rift of Corinth: New insights from the Corinth Rift Laboratory (CRL).
Tectonophysics, 426, 7-30. PDF
Zahradník, J., Plešinger, A., (2005). Long-period pulses in broadband records of near earthquakes Bul.
Seism. Soc. Am., Vol. 95, No. 5, 1928-1939. PDF
Zahradník, J., Serpetsidaki, A., Sokos, E., Tselentis, G-A., (2005). Iterative deconvolution of regional
waveforms and a double-event interpretation of the 2003 Lefkada earthquake, Greece. Bull. Seism. Soc.
Am., Vol. 95, No. 1, 159-172. PDF