| (he/him) |
| University of Leeds |
| Current Position | Professor of Global Seismology |
| s.rost@leeds.ac.uk | |
| Department(s) | School of Earth and Environment; Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics |
| ECR | No |
| YES.DTN Core Themes | Dynamic Earth, Natural Hazards & Earth Processes |
| Profile(s) | Sebastian Rost (0000-0003-0218-247X) – ORCID User profile for Prof Sebastian Rost |
Key Research Interests
- Global Seismology
- Array Seismology
- Deep Earth Structure
- Earth’s fine scale structure
- Ultra-Low Velocity Zones
Recent Key Papers
- Rost, S. and Frost, D.A., 2025. Global mantle heterogeneity structure from scattered PKPPKP. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 664, p.119415
- Rost, S., Frost, D.A., Nowacki, A. and Cobden, L., 2023. Wavefield distortion imaging of Earth’s deep mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 604, p.118011.
- Hansen, S.E., Garnero, E.J., Li, M., Shim, S.H. and Rost, S., 2023. Globally distributed subducted materials along the Earth’s core-mantle boundary: Implications for ultralow velocity zones. Science Advances, 9(14), p.eadd4838.
- Thorne, M.S., Pachhai, S., Li, M., Ward, J. and Rost, S., 2024. Investigating ultra‐low velocity zones as sources of PKP scattering beneath North America and the western Pacific Ocean: Potential links to subducted oceanic crust. AGU Advances, 5(4), p.e2024AV001265.