Rate My Professor Ezgi Karasözen

Ezgi Karasözen is a Research Seismologist at the Alaska Earthquake Center within the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She uses seismology to improve understanding of source parameters for processes including earthquakes, landslides, and explosions, with current work focused on developing landslide monitoring techniques in southern Alaska. Karasözen earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees in geological engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She completed additional graduate studies at the Colorado School of Mines, including a master’s thesis on Mars tectonics and a PhD on seismotectonics in Iran and Turkey.

Karasözen has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on earthquake sequences and active tectonics, including lead-author papers on the 2017 Bodrum-Kos earthquake in Geophysical Journal International (2018), the 2016 reassessment of normal faulting in the Simav graben in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (2016), and contributions to studies of the 2020 Elazığ earthquake on the East Anatolian Fault in Geophysical Research Letters (2020). Her research extends to calibrated earthquake relocations, seismicity in the Zagros Mountains, and recent work on the 2024 rapid seismic assessment of landslides in coastal Alaska published in The Seismic Record. She has participated in efforts to launch the open-access journal Seismica and maintains an active role in seismological research at UAF.