Staff
Michael Strasser
Professor
Personal info and publications
phone: +43 512 507-54213
fax: +43 512 507-54399
email: michael.strasser@uibk.ac.at
Karl Krainer
Associate ProfessorPersonal info and publications
phone: +43 512 507-54222
fax: +43 512 507-54399
e-mail: karl.krainer@uibk.ac.at
Diethard Sanders
Associate ProfessorPersonal info and publications
phone: +43 512 507-54206
fax: +43 512 507-54399
email: diethard.sanders@uibk.ac.at
Postdocs

Pauline Cornard
Deepwater sediment gravity flow processes (EAGER Japan Projekt).
phone: +43 512 507 54332
e-mail: Pauline.Cornard@uibk.ac.at

Yin Lu
Lacustrine Paleoseismology (FWF-DeadSeaQuakeRe-Project).
personal webpage, google scholar profile
phone: +43 512 507 54229
e-mail: Yin.Lu@uibk.ac.at

Walter Menapace
Gulf of Cadiz paleoseismology.
ORCID page, google scholar profile
phone: +43 512 507-54331
e-mail: Walter.Menapace@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 MoernautCo-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

Marcel-Luciano Ortler
Supervisor: Michael StrasserCo-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 Project 4D-Event Stratigraphy Lake Hallstatt)
phone: +43 512 507-54395
fax: +43 512 507-54399
e-mail: marcel-luciano.ortler@uibk.ac.at
Affiliated PhD Students
Gerald Degenhart
Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Department of Radiology, Core facility µCT
Supervisor: Michael Strasser
Co-supervisors: Peter Tropper (Department of Mineralogy and Petrography)
High resolution X-ray computed tomography: new developments of applications in Earth Sciences
phone: +43 (0)512 504-82051
e-mail: gerald.degenhart@i-med.ac.at
Master Students
Katharina Bierbaumer
Supervisor: Jasper Moernaut, Michael Strasser
(Co-supervisors: Patrick Oswald)
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
Limnogeologie der Montiglerseen, Süttirol
in collaboration with Jean-Nicolas Haas (Institut für Botanik, UIBK)
Matthias Plörer
Supervisor: Michael Strasser
Geotechnische Gebirgsaufnahmen, stumme Zeugen-, Blockgrößen- und kinematische Analysen im Tiroler Valsertal: Ermittlung des relativen Steinschlagrisikos und Identifikation weiterer Felssturzpotenziale für den siedlungsnahen Raum
in Zusammenarbeit mit Forsttechnischer Dienst für Wildbach und Lawinenverbauung / Fachzentrum Geologie und Lawinen (Michael Mölk)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)
Former Group Members


Dr. Tobias Schwestermann
PhD student 2016-2020 on the FWF Project EAGER-Japan, moved to BTG Büro für Technische Geologie in Sargans, Switzerland
Dr. Jyh-Jaan 'Steven' Huang

Dr. Patrick Oswald
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
Studying submarine landslides and their impact on European continental margins (in collaboration with European Training Network SLATE). Moved to new position as Geophysicist at RINA (Milano office)
Dr. Andrea Franco
Finished PhD on 4 July 2022Wave 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))