Valentina Espinoza

PhD student at the University of Copenhagen. Interested in plate tectonics and mountain building. Amateur yet passionate about coding in Python, C# and Julia.

@ValeEspinozaF
Copenhagen, Denmark
vf@ign.ku.dk
University of Copenhagen

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Research

Investigación

Articles

  • Espinoza, V. and Iaffaldano, G. Rapid absolute plate motion changes inferred from high-resolution relative spreading reconstructions: A case study focusing on the South America plate and its Atlantic/Pacific neighbors. In Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 604: 118009, 2023.  
  • Espinoza, V.; Martin de Blas, J. and Iaffaldano, G. MYRIAM: Open-source software to estimate torque variations associated with plate-motion temporal changes. In Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25 (2): e2023GC011095, 2024.  
  • Espinoza, V. and Iaffaldano, G. Corrigendum to" Rapid absolute plate motion changes inferred from high-resolution relative spreading reconstructions: A case study focusing on the South America plate and its Atlantic/Pacific neighbors"[Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 604 (2023) 118009]. In Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 616: 118228, 2023.

In Proceedings

  • Espinoza Fernández, V.; Martin de Blas, J. and Iaffaldano, G. MYRIAM: an open-source software that turns plate motions into tectonic forces (simply put). In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, pages GP31A-3400, 2024.
  • Martin de Blas, J.; Iaffaldano, G.; Espinoza Fernández, V.; Tassara, A. and Melnick, D. Interplay between plate kinematics and the seismic cycle: evidence from GNSS data collected in the Nazca and South American plates. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2024.
  • Espinoza Fernández, V.; Stotz, I.; Martin de Blas, J.; Tassara, A. and Iaffaldano, G. Linking the Neogene kinematic history of the Andes to likely tectonic forces. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, pages T53D-07, 2024.
  • Espinoza Fernández, V.; Iaffaldano, G.; Stotz, I. and Tassara, A. Highly-resolved absolute plate-motion changes: Plate circuits and Bayesian inference to the rescue. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, pages GP13A-01, 2023.
  • Espinoza, V. and Iaffaldano, G. Mid-Cenozoic absolute plate motion changes in the South Atlantic from relative plate motion analyses. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, pages EGU22-4206, 2022.
  • Espinoza, V.; Stotz, I.; Iaffaldano, G. and Tassara, A. Geodynamical analysis of the controlling factors for the break-up of the Farallon plate and the subsequent rebalancing of forces. In XV Congreso Geológico Chileno, pages 1090, 2018.
  • Quezada, J.; Espinoza, V. and Mart'inez, C. Extensión Eocena en el Litoral de la Región del Biob'io, Chile Centro Sur. In Primer Simposio de Tectónica Sudamericana, pages 99, 2016.

Master's Theses

  • Espinoza, V. Quiebre de la placa Farallón. Análisis cinemático e implicancias geodinámicas. Master's Thesis, Universidad de Concepción. Facultad de Ciencias Qu'imicas., 2019.

Software

  • Espinoza, V. ValeEspinozaF/PlateKinematics.jl: v0.2.0. software v0.2.0, 2024.  
  • Espinoza, V.; Martin de Blas, J. and Iaffaldano, G. MYRIAM. software v1.0.1, 2023.