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Dr. Pia Victor

Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section 3.1, Lithosphere Dynamics

Telegrafenberg, C 222
D-14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1357
Fax: +49 331 288 1370
Mail: pia.victor@gfz-potsdam.de

Scientific interests:

  • Active tectonics with the focus on quantitative tectonic geomorphology and seismotectonic
  • Interaction of the subduction process and forearc tectonics along active continental margins
  • Fault displacement rates on various time-scales (seconds – million years)
  • Instrumental displacement rate monitoring
  • 3D analysis of fault patterns and kinematic evolution

Projects:

  • “Observing seismic and silent faulting related to a megathrust earthquake cycle: Joint application of InSAR and Creepmeter ground displacement measurements”                                                                DFG research program “Megathrust seismicity and upper plate response” (PI)

Career:

  • 01/2009 – present     Research scientist, GFZ Potsdam, Germany
  • 10/2007 – 12/2008    Maternity leave
  • 07/2005 – 9/2007      Research Scientist, GFZ Potsdam, Germany
  • 07/2003 – 6/2005      Maternity leave
  • 10/2001 – 6/2003      Assistant Professor (C1) in Structural Geology at Leibnitz Universität Hannover,  Gemany
  • 07/2000 – 9/2001      Postdoctoral position at Institut Français du Pétrole, France
  • 01/1997 – 6/2000      Research assistant, GFZ Potsdam, Germany

Experience:

  • Promotion (Ph.D.) in Geoscience at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  • Diplom (M.Sc.) in Geology at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany

Selected publications:

  • Victor P., Sobiesiak M., Nielsen S., Glodny J., Oncken O. (2011): Long-term persistence of subduction earthquake segment boundaries - evidence from Mejillones Peninsula, N-Chile. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 116, B02402, doi:10.1029/2010JB007771.
  • Victor, P. & Moretti, I. (2006): Polygonal Fault Systems and Channel boudinage: 3D Analysis of Multidirectional Extension in Analogue Sandbox Experiments. Marine and Petroleum Geology 23, 777-789.
  • Oncken, O., Hindle, D., Kley, J., Elger, K., Victor, P., and Schemann, K. (2006): Deformation of the Central Andean Upper Plate System - Facts, Fiction and Constraints from Plateau Models; Frontiers in Earth Sciences: 1; 3-27.
  • Victor, P., Oncken, O. & Glodny, J. (2004): Uplift of the western Altiplano plateau: Evidence from the Precordillera between 20° and 21°S (northern Chile). Tectonics 23, TC4004, doi:10.1029/2003 TC001519.
  • Moretti, I., Calassou, S., Victor, P., Molinaro, M. & Marteen, L. (2003) Syn-Sedimentary Shear Zones, Petroleum Geoscience 9 (3), 221-232.
  • Winsemann, J., Asprion, U., Meyer, T., Schultz, H. & Victor, P. (2003) Evidence of iceberg ploughing in a subaqueous ice-contact fan, glacial Lake Rinteln, Northwest Germany. Boreas 32 (2), 386-398.
  • Druguet, E., Passchier, C.W., Carreras, J., Victor, P. & den Brok, S. (1997): Analysis of a complex high- strain zone at Cap de Creus, Spain. Tectonophysics 280 (1-2), 31-45.
  • Devey, C.W., Hekinian, R., Ackermand, D., Binard, N., Francke, B., Hemond, C., Kapsimalis, V., Lorenc, S., Maia, M., Moeller, H., Perrot, K., Pracht, J., Rogers, T., Stattegger, K., Steinke, S. & Victor, P. (1997): The Foundation Seamount Chain, a first survey and sampling. Marine Geology, 137 (3-4), 191-200.

Selected Conference Abstracts
  • Victor P., Sobiesiak M., Nielsen S., Glodny J., Oncken O. (2010): Long-term persistence of subduction earthquake segment boundaries - evidence from Mejillones Peninsula, N-Chile, Abstract T11D-2135 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.
  • Victor, P., Ziegenhagen, T., Bach, C., Walter, T., and Oncken, O. (2010): Monitoring seismic and silent faulting along the Atacama Fault System and its relation to the subduction zone seismic cycle: A Creepmeter Study in N-Chile. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol.12, EGU2010-4298.
  • Victor, P., Bach, C., T.R. Walter, C.M. Krawczyk, G. Gonzalez, and O. Oncken (2009): Observing seismic and silent faulting related to a megathrust earthquake cycle: Deployment of a Creepmeter array in N-Chile. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol.11, EGU2009-7511-2
  • Victor, P.; Sobiesiak, M.; Nielsen, S. N.; Oncken, O. (2007): Discrepancies between long-term and short-term surface deformation signals in the forearc of N-Chile,20th Colloquium on Latin American Earth Sciences (Kiel, Germany 2007), 244.
  • Victor, P., Nielsen, S.N., Sobiesiak, M. (2006): Interaction of the subduction process and forearc tectonics: identification of a subduction earthquake segment boundary in surface deformation of Mejillones Peninsula, N-Chile. Jahrestagung der Geologischen Vereinigung, Potsdam, Terra Nostra 2006/3: 101-102.
  • Victor, P., Sobiesiak, M., Nielsen S.N., Oncken, O. (2006): Different patterns of strain accumulation across a subduction earthquake segment boundary located at Mejillones Peninsula, N-Chile. Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl. (San Francisco 2006).
  • Victor, P., Sobiesiak, M., Nielsen, S.N., Oncken, O. (2006) Subduction earthquake segment boundary expressed in surface deformation of Mejillones Peninsula. XI Congreso Geológico Chileno, Antofagasta, Chile, Actas 2: 473-476.


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