Staff
Jasper Moernaut
Associate Professor
Personal info and publications
phone: +43 512 507-54372
e-mail: jasper.moernaut@uibk.ac.at
Arne Ramisch
Senior Scientist
Personal info and publications
phone: +43 512 507-54331
email: Arne.Ramisch@uibk.ac.at
Charlotte Pizer, PhD
Universitätsassistentin
Subduction Zone Paleoseismology (FWF-QuakeCycle Japan).
phone: +43 512 507 54202
e-mail: Charlotte.Pizer@uibk.ac.at
Postdocs
PhD Students
Leonie Leitgeb
Supervisor: Jasper Moernaut
Co-Supervisor: Arne Ramisch & Michael Strasser
Deciphering Alpine hazard frequencies using lake sediments (FWF-Weave project ALPHA)
Valentina Moreno Allende
Supervisor: Jasper Moernaut
Co-Supervisor: Arne Ramisch
Linking sedimentary evidence of earthquake shaking and marine inundations in lakes on Chiloé Island (South-Central Chile) (FWF project QuakeScene Chile)
Valentina.Moreno-Allende@uibk.ac.at
Mishelle Muthre
Supervisor: Michael Strasser
Co-Supervisor: tbd
Oceanic Trench Sedimentology & Subduction Zone Paleoseismology (FWF - QuakeCycle Japan)
mishelle.muthre@uibk.ac.at
Marcel-Luciano Ortler
Supervisor: Michael Strasser
Co-Supervisors: Jasper Moernaut
Causes and consequences of extreme geological perturbation events in the upper Traun catchment area (Salzkammergut) (ÖAW Project S4LIDE – Hallstatt and TWF Project4D-Event Stratigraphy Lake Hallstatt ) (ÖAW-DOC-Fellowship)
e-mail: marcel-luciano.ortler@uibk.ac.at
Laura Schley
Supervisor: Arne Ramisch
co-Supervisor: Michael Strasser; Gert Jan Weltje (KU Leuven)
Enhancing Geochemical Imaging: Advanced Signal Processing for Improved Elemental Analysis
e-mail: Laura.Schley@uibk.ac.at
Affiliated and visiting Early Career Researcher & PhD Students
Gerald Degenhart
Supervisor: Michael Strasser
Co-Supervisors: Peter Tropper (Institut für Mineralogie)
X-ray Computed Tomography in Earth Science
e-mail: Gerald.Degenhart@i-med.ac.at
Dominik Jaeger
Supervisor: Roland Stalder (Inst. of Petrography and Mineralogy)
Co-Supervisor: Michael Strasser
Quartz as a monitor for sedimentary processes (FWF-project P-33038: Quartz-Monitor)
Master Students
Philipp Gaugg Geophysikalische Untersuchungen am Achenseedamm (supervised by J.Moernaut)
Florian Hauser XRF-Direct Spectrum Filtering für leichte Elemente (supervised by A.Ramisch and M.Strasser)
Lukas Neumair Limnogeological investigations of Lake Bohinij (supervised by J.Moernaut)
Hannah Rössl Limno(hydro)geologische Untersuchungen im Hintersteinersee (supervised by M.Strasser, J. Moernaut, in collaboration with Martin Schletter (TIWAG))
Björn Schrader Reconstructing the Holocene debris flow activity at Achensee based on semi-automated classification of lake cores (supervised by J.Moernaut, A.Ramisch)
Schwendinger Manuel Untersuchungen zur Wirksamkeit von Steinschlagschutzdämmen (supervised by M.Strasser, G.Meißl in collaboration with Daniela Engl, Stabstelle Geologie Innsbruck, Wildbach- und Lawinenverbauung)
visiting MSc Student
Lena Holler Deciphering Alpine hazard frequencies using lake sediments from Heiterwangersee (supervised by Sebastian Krastel, University of Kiel and J.Moernaut)
Former Group Members
Former Staff
a.O. Univ.-Prof. i.R. Karl Krainer
Personal info and publications
e-mail: karl.krainer@uibk.ac.at
Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. Rainer Brandner
Rainer.Brandner@uibk.ac.at
Diethard Sanders
Personal info and publications
phone: +43 512 507-54206
fax: +43 512 507-54399
email: diethard.sanders@uibk.ac.at
Former post docs
Katleen Wils
Lacustrine Paleoseismology (FWF-QuakeSceneChile) moved to University of Ghent, Belgium and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Dr. Pauline Cornard
Deepwater sediment gravity flow processes (FWF Lise Meitner - Flow-Dynamic-Fan Project) moved to MARUM, University of Bremen, as post doc
Dr. Walter Menapace
Gulf of Cadiz paleoseismology (FWF Lise Meitner), moved to Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, as MSCA Postdoc (H2020)
Dr. Yin Lu
Lacustrine Paleoseismology (FWF-DeadSeaQuakeRe-Project), moved to Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Dr. Jyh-Jaan 'Steven' Huang
Postdoc 2017-2020 on the Austrian Core Facility. Now Assistant Professor at the Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University.
Dr. Arata Kioka
Postdoc 2016-2019 on the FWF Project EAGER-Japan, moved to Kyushu University, Japan, as Assistant Professor
Former PhD students
Dr. Christoph Daxer
Defended his dissertation on September 30th 2024:
Thesis Title: Lacustrine paleoseismology in Carinthia, Austria
Moved to Land Vorarlberg, Abteilung Umwelt- und Klimaschutz
Dr. Ariana Molenaar
defende her dissertation on June 26th 2024
Thesis Title: Natural Seismographs: A Stratigraphic Study on the Effects of Earthquakes on Subaqueous Surface Sediments
Moved to ILF consulting engineers in Rum, Austria
Dr. Andrea Franco
Defende his PhD thesis in 2022 at the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, University of Innsbruck
A multidisciplinary approach for landslide-generated impulse wave assessment in natural mountain basins from a cascade analysis perspective(supervised by Bernhard Gems (Wasserbau)
Dr. Patrick Oswald
Finished PhD on 21.01.2022
Studying the sediment archive of Tyrolian lakes to reconstruct and quantify the regions' paleoseismological history (Interreg Project Armonia, ÖAW Project S4LIDE-Austria and TWF Projects Tyrol on Shaky Slopes and GEO-STATE-Tyrol). Moved to Geo.zt - beratende geologen www.geo-zt.at
Dr. Maddalena Sammartini
Finished PhD on 22.11.2021
Studying submarine landslides and their impact on European continental margins (in collaboration with EuropeanEuropean Training Network SLATE ). Moved to new position as Geophysicist at RINA (Milano office)
Dr. Tobias Schwestermann
PhD student 2016-2020 on the FWF Project EAGER-Japan, moved to BTG Büro für Technische Geologie in Sargans, Switzerland
Former scientific assistants and affiliated PhD students
Markus Niederstätter
Scientific Assistent FWF-Project QuakeScene Chile, moved to do a PhD disseration at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand