Luděk Vecsey

Dr. Luděk Vecsey (1972) works at the Institute of Geophysics CAS and is part of the Litosphere Working Group. He obtained his Ph.D. and RNDr. degrees at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in 2002. During his postgraduate studies, he obtained a short-time fellowship at the MSI, Minneapolis.

Luděk focuses on the research of the lithospheric structure and its development, with an emphasis on the anisotropic properties of the Earth-upper mantle. He is demanding high quality input data for his research, and hence he suggests procedures and metrics for monitoring the quality of data and metadata. This careful quality control is applied to both data from mobile seismic stations of the MOBNET pool and data from permanent and temporary European networks (stored in EIDA).

Research of the Lithosphere requires seismic signals from as dense seismic networks as possible. Together with the Litosphere Working Group, Luděk participates in international passive seismic experiments covering Europe from Scandinavia through the Bohemian Massif to the Apennine Peninsula. Today, the largest European seismic experiment AlpArray is being held, focusing on the deep structure of the Alps and their wider neighborhood.

Luděk likes programming. An enormously increasing number of seismic stations and the data volumes have required the transition to full automation of data processing in scientific methods. These tasks are helped by using the modern programming language Python and its seismological module ObsPy.

A team of authors consisting of Dr. Jaroslava Plomerová, Dr. Vladislav Babuška, and Dr. Luděk Vecsey received The Award of the Czech Academy of Sciences for outstanding results of great scientific significance in 2010.

Peer-reviewed publications

• Plomerová J., Žlebčíková H., Hetényi G., Vecsey L., Babuška V., and AlpArray-EASI and AlpArray working groups, 2022. Two subduction-related heterogeneities beneath theEastern Alps and the Bohemian Massif imaged byhigh-resolution P-wave tomography, Solid Earth 13, 251-270.
  doi: 10.5194/se-13-251-2022
• Munzarová H., Plomerová J., Kissling E., Vecsey L., Babuška V., 2018. Novel anisotropic teleseismic body-wave tomography code AniTomo to illuminate heterogeneous anisotropic upper mantle: Part II – Application to data of passive seismic experiment LAPNET in northern Fennoscandia, Geophys. J. Int. 215 (2), 1388-1409.
  doi:10.1093/gji/ggy327
• Vecsey L., Plomerová J., Jedlička P., Munzarová H., Babuška V., 2017. Data quality control and tools in passive seismic experiments exemplified on the Czech broadband seismic pool MOBNET in the AlpArray collaborative project, Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst. 6 (2), 505-521.
  doi:10.5194/gi-6-505-2017
• Chyba J., Plomerová J., Vecsey L., Munzarová H., 2017. Tomography study of the upper mantle around the TESZ based on PASSEQ experiment data, Phys. Earth Plan. Int. 266, 29-38.
  doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2017.01.002
• Plomerová J., Munzarová H., Vecsey L., Kissling E., Achauer U., Babuška V., 2016. Cenozoic volcanism in the Bohemian Massif in the context of P- and S-velocity high-resolution teleseismic tomography of the upper mantle, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 17 (8), 3326-3349.
  doi:10.1002/2016GC006318
• Vecsey L., Plomerova J., Babuska V., 2014. Mantle lithosphere transition from the East European Craton to the Variscan Bohemian Massif imaged by shear-wave splitting, Solid Earth 5 (2), 779-792.
  doi:10.5194/se-5-779-2014
• Munzarova H., Plomerova J., Babuska V., Vecsey L., 2013. Upper-mantle fabrics beneath the Northern Apennines revealed by seismic anisotropy, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 14 (4), 1156-1181.
  doi:10.1002/ggge.20092
• Karousova H., Plomerova J., Vecsey L., 2012. Seismic tomography of the upper mantle beneath the north-eastern Bohemian Massif (central Europe), Tectonophysics 564, 1-11.
  doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2012.06.031
• Plomerova J., Vecsey L., Babuska V., 2012. Mapping seismic anisotropy of the lithospheric mantle beneath the northern and eastern Bohemian Massif (central Europe), Tectonophysics 564, 38-53.
  doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.08.011
• Eken T., Plomerova J., Vecsey L., Babuska V., Roberts R., Shomali H., Bodvarsson R., 2012. Effects of seismic anisotropy on P-velocity tomography of the Baltic Shield, Geophysical Journal International 188 (2), 600-612.
  doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05280.x
• Plomerova J., Vecsey L., Babuska V., 2011. Domains of Archean mantle lithosphere deciphered by seismic anisotropy – inferences from the LAPNET array in northern Fennoscandia, Solid Earth 2 (2), 303-313.
  doi:10.5194/se-2-303-2011
• Babuska V., Plomerova J., Vecsey L., 2010. Links between the structure of the mantle lithosphere and morphology of the Cheb Basin (Eger Rift, central Europe), International Journal of Earth Sciences 99 (7), 1535-1544.
  doi:10.1007/s00531-010-0531-4