Function and Responsibilities:

Experimental Tectonics Lab ( HelTec )

Research Interests:

Tectonics & Geohazards

Education:

2004:  PHD / Dr. rer. nat. (Free University Berlin)

Projects:

2024 TSK20 - Symposium on Tectonics, Structural Geology and Crystalline Geology

• Role: Scientific Committee member; Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)

2021-2025 Fish tectonics - True tri-axial deformation of the Earth

• Role: Host, Supervisor; Funding: China Scholarship Council (CSC)

2010-2024 EPOS - European Plate Observing System

• Role: PP-Working Group Member, IP-Taskleader, Host, Consortium board member & chair; Funding: EU/EPOS ERIC
  

2014-2022 CRC/SFB 1114 - Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems      

• Role: PI; Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)

2019-2022 MATH+ - Cluster of Excellence        

• Role: PI; Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)

2019-2022 AspEQt - Earthquake cycle dynamics

• Role: Supervisor; Funding: Geo.X Young Academy

2018-2022   4D-Rifts - Analogue modelling of oblique rifts and obliquely rifted margins

• Role: Co-PI; Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

2019-2020 TRADIPO - Analogue Earthquake Prediction

• Role: Host; Funding: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD PRIME)

2016-2020 SUBiTOP - Understanding subduction zone topography through modelling of coupled shallow and deep processes 

• Role: PI; Funding: Marie Curie ETN (EU)

2019 LAC2019 - Latin-American Colloquium of Geosciences      

• Role: Scientific Committee member; Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  

2011-2017 GEOSIM - Helmholtz Research School for Explorative Simulation in Earth Sciences

• Role: PI; Funding: Helmholtz Association (HGF)
  

2012-2016 Megathrust earthquake cycle kinematics

• Role: Host, Supervisor; Funding: China Scholarship Council (CSC)

2012-2015 TIPTIMON - Tien Shan-Pamir Monitoring Program in the framework program CAME - Central Asia – Monsoon dynamics and Geo-ecosystems

• Role: PI, coordinator, speaker; Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

2011-2015 TOPOMOD - Sculpting the Earth’s topography: Insights from modelling deep – surface processes 

• Role: PI; Funding: Marie Curie ITN (EU)

2014 GeoMod - The International Conference on Modelling in Geosciences       

• Role: Organizer; Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)

2011-2014 MARISCOS - MAule eaRthquake: Integration of Seismic Cycle Observations and Structural investigations

• Role: PI; Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)

Research Boards and Committees:

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