Staff
Diethard Sanders
Associate Professor
Personal info and publications
phone: +43 512 507-54206
fax: +43 512 507-54399
email: diethard.sanders@uibk.ac.at
Jasper Moernaut
Assistant Professor
Personal info and publications
phone: +43 512 507-54372
fax: +43 512 507-54399
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
Hannah Braun
Lab technician
phone: +43 512 507-54223
fax: +43 512 507-54399
e-mail: hannah.braun@uibk.ac.at
Postdocs
Katleen Wils
Lacustrine Paleoseismology (FWF-QuakeSceneChile).
phone: +43 512 507 54269
e-mail: Katleen.Wils@uibk.ac.at
Pauline Cornard
Deepwater sediment gravity flow processes (FWF - Flow-Dynamic-Fan)
phone: +43 512 507 54332
e-mail: pauline.cornard@uibk.ac.at
PhD Students
Christoph Daxer
Supervisor: Jasper Moernaut
Co-Supervisor: Michael Strasser
Quantitative lacustrine paleoseismology in Carinthia, Austria: improving the Environmental Seismic Intensity Scale and assessing strong earthquake recurrence in formerly-glaciated intraplate settings (FWF Project: QUAKE-LAKE Carinthia)
phone: +43 512 507-54398
e-mail: christoph.daxer@uibk.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)
e-mail: dominik.jaeger@uibk.ac.at
Ariana Molenaar
Supervisor: Jasper Moernaut
Co-Supervisor: Michael Strasser
Assessing seismic intensity using lacustrine sediments: improving the Environmental Seismic Intensity (ESI) scale (FWF Project: QUAKE-LAKE Carinthia)
phone: +43 512 507 54232
e-mail: ariana.molenaar@uibk.ac.at
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
mishelle.muthre@uibk.ac.at
Marcel-Luciano Ortler
Supervisor: Michael Strasser
Co-Supervisors: Jasper Moernaut, Tobias Hell
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 )
phone: +43 512 507-54395
fax: +43 512 507-54399
e-mail: marcel-luciano.ortler@uibk.ac.at
Affiliated and visiting 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
Master Students
Reconstructing the Holocene debris flow activity at Achensee based on semi-automated classification of lake cores
Reconstructing Holocene lake level changes at Lago Llanquihue (South-Central Chile) based on field mapping and lacustrine sediment core analysis
Judith Barth
Supervisor: Michael Strasser, Clemens Geitner (Institut für Geographie), Martin Rutzinger (Institut für Geographie)
Untersuchung der Morphodynamik im Krummgampental mittels hochauflösender multi-temporaler Fernerkundungsdaten.
Central Japan Trench Event Stratigraphy (Within the context of IODP Expedition 386)
Gregor Mair
Supervisor: Michael Strasser, Karl Krainer
Faziesentwicklung der quartären Talfüllungen des Längenfelder Beckens (LFB)
(in Zusammenarbeit mit geo.zt )
Markus Niederstätter
Supervisor: Michael Strasser, Jasper Moernaut
Paleolimnological investigation of the Montigglerseen, Südtirol
in collaboration with Jean-Nicolas Haas (Department of Botany, UIBK)
Julia Rechenmacher
Supervisors: Jasper Moernaut, Strasser Michael
Limnogeology of Lake Altausee (Salzkammergut, Austria)
Co-Supervisor: Erwin Heine (BOKU)
Within Altauseer See 3D Project by Walter Munk Foundation of the Oceans (WMFO), California, USA through cooperation with University of Natural Resources and Life Science (BOKU) Vienna, Austria (2020-2022)
Seismic, sediment-core and bathymetric analysis of the sedimentary infill of Lake Hallstatt, Upper Austria (Facealps Project)
Co-Supervisor: Kerstin Kowarik (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)
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.atFormer post docs
Dr. Walter Menapace
Gulf of Cadiz paleoseismology (FWF Lise Meitner), moved to Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, as MSCA Postoc (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. Andrea Franco
Wave formation, propagation and run-up in natural mountain lakes from a cascade hazards perspective – analyses and modelling of triggering processes, lakes' morpho-dynamics and potential downstream hazard effects. (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