Nils Maercklin was born on 6 March 1972 in Hanover, Germany. He attended elementary schools in Tellingstedt and Hennstedt, Gymnasium Heide-Ost in Heide, and Freie Waldorfschule Rendsburg, where he completed the Abitur in 1991. From 1991 to 1992 he performed social service as a kindergarten teacher at the Kindertagesstätte Mastbrook in Rendsburg.
Maercklin studied geophysics at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel from 1992 to 1999 through its Institute of Geosciences and received a Diploma in Geophysics. His diploma thesis, completed in September 1999, examined polarization analysis of refraction-seismic data from Merapi volcano in Indonesia. He then pursued doctoral research at the University of Potsdam from 2000 to 2004 in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. His dissertation, Seismic structure of the Arava Fault, Dead Sea Transform, was completed in 2004.
Maercklin began his scientific career at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, where he worked from 2000 to 2003 in the Deep Geophysical Sounding section while pursuing his doctorate. From 2004 to 2005 he was a post-doctoral research fellow in the seismology section of NORSAR in Kjeller, Norway. He subsequently worked as a contract researcher at the University of Naples Federico II and at AMRA in Naples from 2006 to 2012. His research has addressed seismic acquisition, processing and imaging, controlled-source seismology, seismic monitoring, fault-zone structure, volcanic systems, induced seismicity, and regional geophysical modeling. His documented research includes investigations of the Dead Sea Transform, the Arava Fault, the Barents Sea, Campi Flegrei, geothermal seismicity, the L'Aquila earthquake, and seismic monitoring applications. He also developed NMSAC, a stand-alone C software package for analysis and processing of earthquake data in SAC format.
(Diploma thesis in geophysics at the Christian-Albrechts-U...)
1999(Doctoral dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Mathema...)
2004(Co-authored study of estimating seismic source parameters...)
2011(Co-authored investigation of the shallow architecture of ...)
2007(Co-authored study combining seismic and magnetotelluric m...)
2005(Co-authored research article on imaging the Dead Sea Tran...)
2004(Co-authored geophysical model of the crust and upper mant...)
2005(Co-authored analysis of the rupture development of the 20...)
2012(Co-authored study of the crustal structure of the Dead Se...)
2004(Software package written in C for interactive and scripte...)
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