The Eastern Mediterranean is one of the most tectonically active regions on the earth, shaped by the complex interaction of the African, Arabian, and Eurasian plates. Its geodynamic evolution involves subduction, collision, strike-slip faulting, crustal block extrusion, and slab deformation. These processes generate a natural laboratory to investigate how lithospheric deformation is driven and accommodated across spatial and temporal scales.

The region hosts major continental transform faults, including the North Anatolian, East Anatolian and Dead Sea Faults, along with the Hellenic Arc, all of which have produced devastating earthquakes both in historical times and in the recent past. The interplay between shallow fault activity and deep-seated mantle processes remains a matter of debate, and recent destructive earthquakes have emphasized how critical it is to improve comprehension of seismic cycle and the geodynamic process that controls it.

This session welcomes multidisciplinary contributions — including neotectonics, seismology, tectonic geodesy (e.g. GNSS, InSAR), paleoseismology, tectonic geomorphology, structural geology, remote sensing, and geodynamic modelling — to advance our understanding of active tectonics and geodynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean. We particularly encourage submissions from early career researchers.