• Fracture Mechanics and Rock Physics
• Geothermal Energy
• Stress Field of the Earth’s Crust
• Scaling Problems in Earth’s Sciences

• WSM – World Stress Map Project
• Q-WSM – Lithologic Stress Magnitudes
• GEISER – EU Project workpackage leader “Analysis of Induced Seismicity in Geothermal Reservoirs"
• ISRM Suggested Method – Failure Criteria and In situ Rock Stress
• Nucleation, Propagation and Arrest of Rock Fractures (Laboratory testing and modeling)
• Modeling of Stress Redistribution in Deep South African Gold Mine
• Seismotectonics of the North Anatolian Fault Zone (Turkey)

• 2010 - today GFZ, Section 2.6 Seismic Hazard and Stress Field
• 2006 - Assoc. Prof. Geophysics, Potsdam University, Earth and Environmental Sciences
• 1993 - 2010 German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Section 3.2 Geomechanics and Rheology
• 1992 - 1993 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rock Mechanics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
• 1987 - 1992 Geophysicist, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, German Continental Deep Drilling Program (KTB)

Courses Taught

• since 1995 Potsdam University, Courses in Geophysics (Experimental Rock Physics, Rheology, Stress Field of the Earth’s Crust), since 2010 MSc Courses in Geophysics
• European Stress Courses
     -  2012 ETH Zurich, Switzerland
     -  2011 Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
     -  2010 University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

• 1998 Habilitation Geophysics, Potsdam University
• 1991 Dissertation Geophysics, J.W.Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
• 1987 Diploma Geophysics, J.W.Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main

• 2012/13 Visiting Associate Professor of Kumamoto University, Japan
• 1993 German Geophysical Society (DGG), 1. Price presentation Leipzig
• 1992 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), postdoctoral scholarship, Stony Brook, New York, USA
• 1987 Herrmann-Willkomm-Stiftung, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

• Labuz J, Zang A (2012) ISRM Suggested Methods “Failure Criteria” Part: Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 45, 975 - 979
• Stephansson O, Zang A (2012) ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock Stress Estimation – Part 5: Establishing a model for the in-situ stress at a given site. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 45, 955 - 969
• Yoon J, Zang A, Stephansson O (2012) Simulating fracture and friction in Aue granite under confined asymmetric compressive test using clumped particle model. Int. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 49, 68-83
• Zang A, Stephansson O, Heidbach O, Janouschkowetz S (2012) World stress map data base as a resource for rock mechanics and rock engineering. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering 30, 647-664

 
TEXT BOOK

• Zang A, Stephansson O (2010) Stress Field of the Earth’s Crust. Springer, Dordrecht, 322 pp