Postdoctoral researcher, seismologist
Research fields
• Seismic source: development of a code for automated CMT solutions
• Seismic hazard: various PSHA studies
• Automated data processing: fully automated scientific calculations
• Data quality control: detection of disturbances in seismograms, misorientation, incorrect instrument parameters etc.
• Seismic network maintenance: building and maintenance of a network at an experimental geothermal field
• Seismic instrumentation: development of a prototype of instrument for rotational seismology
• Surface waves: studies of surface-wave dispersion and calculation of crustal models
Developed software
• MouseTrap: Python/ObsPy module for automated detection of long-period disturbances in seismic records.
• ISOLA-ObsPy: Python/ObsPy module for automated moment tensor inversion.
- Brokešová, J., J. Málek, J. Vackář, F. Bernauer, J. Wassermann and H. Igel (2021). Rotaphone-CY: The Newest Rotaphone Model Design and Preliminary Results from Performance Tests with Active Seismic Sources. Sensors, 21(2), 562. doi
- Bernauer, F., K. Behnen, J. Wassermann, S. Egdorf, H. Igel, S. Donner, … and J. Brokesova (2021). Rotation, Strain, and Translation Sensors Performance Tests with Active Seismic Sources. Sensors, 21(1), 264. doi
- Ademović, N., V. Demir, S. Cvijić-Amulić, J. Málek, I. Prachař, and J. Vackář (2021). Compilation of the seismic hazard maps in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 141, 106500, doi.
- Málek, J. and J. Vackář (2019). Site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard of Prague (Czech Republic). Journal of Seismology, 23(6), 1223-1232. doi
- Málek, J., J. Brokešová, and J. Vackář (2017). Mid-European seismic attenuation anomaly, Tectonophysics, 557–577, doi. PDF, supplement
- Vackář, J., J. Burjánek, F. Gallovič, J. Zahradník, and J. Clinton (2017). Bayesian ISOLA: new tool for automated centroid moment tensor inversion, Geophys. J. Int., 210(2), 693–705. PDF
- Vackář, J., J. Burjánek, and J. Zahradník (2015). Automated detection of long-period disturbances in seismic records; MouseTrap code, Seismological Research Letters, 86, 442–450,
doi. PDF, software
- Novotný, O., J. Vackář, and E. Sokos (2015). Dispersion of love waves from the 2010 Efpalio earthquake in the Corinth Gulf region, Greece. J. of Seismology, 19, 801–806, doi. PDF
- Vackář, J., J. Zahradník, and E. Sokos (2014). Strong fast long-period waves in the Efpalio 2010 earthquake records: explanation in terms of leaking modes. J. of Seismology 18, 81–91, doi. PDF supp1 supp2
Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Geophysics
Automated determination of earthquake source parameters, Supervisor: prof. Jiří Zahradník