Biografie

2011

Doctorate - Thesis "Empirical Ground-Motion Models for Probabislistic Seismic Hazard Analysis: A Graphical Model Approach""

2006

Diplom Geophysik - Thesis "The effect of source zone coupling on seismic cycling and aftershock generation"

2000 - 2006

Student of geophysics at the university of Potsdam

1999

Abitur

Forschung

My research is about ground motion models for probabilistic seismic hazard analysis.

Presentations

Slides to the presentation "A Hierarchical Global Ground Motion Model to Take into Account Regional Differences" (PDF), given at the ESC 2010 meeting.

Video of the presentation "A Bayesian Ground Motion Model for Estimating the Covariance Structure of Ground Motion Intensity Parameters", given at the SSA meeting 2010 in Portland.

Slides to the presentation "A Bayesian Ground Motion Model for Estimating the Covariance Structure of Ground Motion Intensity Parameters" (PDF).

Slides to the presentation "Modeling the Joint Probability Distribution of Earthquake, Site and Ground-Motion Parameters Using Bayesian Networks: Reasoning Under Uncertainty in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis" (PDF), given at the IPGP doctorate conference meeting 2009.

Lehre

• Mathematische Methoden in der Geophysik (Übung)
• Young Seismologists Training Course "PSHA" at ESC 2010 in Montpellier
• Crash Course PSHA in Grenoble (Jan 2010)

Publikationen

Journal publications

• F. Scherbaum and N. M. Kuehn (2011). Logic tree branch weights and  probabilities: Summing up to one is not enough, Earthquake Spectra 27, 1237-1251.DOI: 10.1193/1.3652744
• Hiemer, S., F. Scherbaum, D. Roessler, and N. Kuehn (2011). Determination of τ₀ and rock site κ from records of the 2008/2009 earthquake swarm in Western Bohemia, Seism. Res. Let. 82, 387-393.DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.82.3.387
• Kuehn, N. M., F. Scherbaum, C. Riggelsen, and T. I. Allen (2010). A Bayesian Hierarchical Global Ground-Motion Model To Take into Account Regional Differences, submitted to Bull. Seism. Soc. Am.
• Kuehn, N. M., C. Riggelsen, F. Scherbaum, and T. I. Allen (2010). A Bayesian Ground-Motion Model with Correlation of Ground Motion Intensity Parameters, submitted to Bull. Seism. Soc. Am.
• Kuehn, N. M., C. Riggelsen, and F. Scherbaum (2011). Modeling the Joint Probability of Earthquake, Site, and Ground-Motion Parameters Using Bayesian Networks, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 101, 235-249.DOI: 10.1785/0120100080
• Scherbaum, F., N. M. Kuehn, M. Ohrnberger, and A. Koehler (2010). Exploring the Proximity of Ground-Motion Models Using High-Dimensional Visualization Techniques, Earthquake Spectra 26, 1117-1138.DOI: 10.1193/1.3478697
• Kuehn, N. M. and F. Scherbaum (2010). A Naive Bayes Classifier for Intensities Using Peak Ground Velocity and Acceleration, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 100, 3278-3283.DOI: 10.1785/0120100082
• Al Atik, L., N. Abrahamson, F. Cotton, F. Scherbaum, J. Bommer, and N. Kuehn (2010). The Variability of Ground-Motion Prediction Models and its Components, Seism. Res. Let. 81, 794-801.DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.81.5.794
• Delavaud, E., F. Scherbaum, N. Kuehn, and C. Riggelsen (2009). Information-Theoretic Ground-Motion Model Selection for Seismic Hazard Analysis: An Applicability Study Using Californian Data, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 99, 3248-3263.DOI: 10.1785/0120090055
• Kuehn, N. M., F. Scherbaum, and C. Riggelsen (2009). Deriving Empirical Ground-Motion Models: Balancing Data Constraints and Physical Assumptions to Optimize Prediction Capability, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 99, 2335-2347.DOI: 10.1785/0120080136
• Kuehn, N. M., S. Hainzl, and F. Scherbaum (2008). Non-Poissonian earthquake occurrence in coupled stress release models and its effect on seismic hazard, Geophys. J. Int. 174, 649-658.DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03835.x
  

Conferences

• Kuehn, N. M., C. Riggelsen, F. Scherbaum, and T. I. Allen (2010). A Hierarchical Global Ground Motion Model to Take into Account Regional Differences, ESC Meeting, Montpellier, France.
• Kuehn, N. M., F. Scherbaum, C. Riggelsen, and T. I. Allen (2010). Representing Ground Motion in Seismic Hazard Analysis by Bayesian Networks, ESC Meeting, Montpellier, France.
• Kuehn, N. M., C. Riggelsen, F. Scherbaum, and T. I. Allen (2010). A Bayesian Ground Motion Model for Estimating the Covariance Structure of Ground Motion Intensity Parameters, SSA Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon.
• Kuehn, N. M., C. Riggelsen, and F. Scherbaum (2009). Facilitating Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis Using Bayesian Networks, 7th Workshop on Bayes Applications, UAI/ICML/COLT 2009.PDF
• Kuehn, N. M., C. Riggelsen and F. Scherbaum (2009). Sensitivity of Seismic Hazard Estimates to Earthquake and Site-Parameters Investigated by Bayesian Networks, SSA Annual Meeting, Monterey, California.
• Kuehn, N. M., C. Riggelsen, and F. Scherbaum (2009). Modeling the Joint Probability Distribution of Earthquake, Site and Ground-Motion Parameters Using Bayesian Networks: Reasoning Under Uncertainty in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis, IPGP Doctorate Congress, Paris, France.
• Kuehn, N. M., C. Riggelsen, and F. Scherbaum (2008). Modeling the Joint Probability Distribution of Earthquake, Site and Ground-Motion Parameters Using Bayesian Networks: Reasoning Under Uncertainty in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis, AGU Fall Meeting.
• Kuehn, N. M., F. Scherbaum and C. Riggelsen (2008). Towards a Stochastic Ground-MotionModel with Optimized Generalization Error, SSA Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico.