Stephen Hicks

Dr. Stephen Hicks is a NERC Independent Research Fellow and Proleptic Lecturer in Environmental Seismology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University College London. His research focuses on high-impact geophysical phenomena, including earthquake rupture processes, tectonic plate boundary imaging, and environmental monitoring via seismology.

• 2024 EGU Seismology Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Prize for contributions to seismic imaging, earthquake dynamics, and science communication.
• Founding editorial board member of the open-access journal Seismica.

Research interests span subduction zones, strike-slip faults, collisional zones, and human-induced seismicity, with methodological expertise in computational seismology, ocean-bottom seismology, and machine learning applications.

• 2024 Science paper on Greenland rockslide-generated tsunamis.
• 2023 Nature Geoscience study of back-propagating supershear ruptures.
• 2020 Science paper on global seismic noise reduction during pandemic lockdowns.

Teaching includes Numerical Methods (2nd year) and Field Geophysics (3rd year module leader).