Staff

Michael Strasser

Professor

Personal info and publications
phone: +43 512 507-54213
fax: +43 512 507-54399
email: michael.strasser@uibk.ac.at

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

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Arne Ramisch

Senior Scientist

Personal info and publications

phone: +43 512 507-54331
e-mail: Arne.Ramisch@uibk.ac.at

Hannah Braun

Lab technician

Personal info

phone: +43 512 507-54223
fax: +43 512 507-54399
e-mail: hannah.braun@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

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

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 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 and visiting 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

Lukas Loaker

Supervisor: Michael Strasser

Lukas.Loacker@student.uibk.ac.at

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

Limnogeologie der Montiglerseen, Süttirol

in collaboration with Jean-Nicolas Haas (Institut für Botanik, UIBK)

Julia Rechenmacher

Supervisors: Jasper Moernaut, Strasser Michael

julia.rechenmacher@student.uibk.ac.at

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)

Thomas Berberich

Supervisor: Michael Strasser

Thomas.Berberich@student.uibk.ac.at

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 members

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

e-mail: Rainer.Brandner@uibk.ac.at

Former 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

Finished PhD on 4 July 2022

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 European 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