Kuo-Fong Ma[a] (Chinese: 馬國鳳; pinyin: Mǎ Guó Fèng, 1963 – ) is a Taiwanese seismologist.
She is currently the Chief Scientist of the Taiwan Earthquake Research Center,[2] a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica,[3] a professor in the Earth Sciences Department of National Central University, and the founder and Director of the Earthquake- Disaster & Risk Evaluation and Risk Management (E-DREaM) Center.
Ma was one of the Ten Outstanding Young Women of Republic of China of the year 2000[5] and received the Academic Award of Ministry of Education in 2007.
[13][14][9] Her research implied that the causes of the 921 earthquake is cyclical in nature, predicting a similar one in 400 years.
[17][18] In 2018, she created the Earthquake Disaster & Risk Evaluation and Management Center (E-DREaM), an agency that brings together experts and scholars in the disaster chains to analyze the risk factors of events such as earthquakes, tsunami, landslides, soil liquefaction, and extreme weather systems.