Current projects

IPOC - Integrated Plate boundary Observatory Chile

About one third of the worldwide seismic energy in the last century has been released along the South American Pacific plate boundary through earthquakes exceeding magnitude 8.

GEOSIM

Helmholtz graduate research school for "Explorative Simulation of Earth Sciences"

Topomod

Sculpting the Earth’s topography: insights from modelling deep-surface processes - A European Training Network in Earth Sciences

MARISCOS project

MAule eaRthquake: Integration of Seismic Cycle Observations and Structural investigations
The 2010 Maule earthquake (Mw=8.8) was the first megathrust event for which a large amount of high-quality data is available for all stages of the seismic cycle and thus is a unique opportunity to deepen our understanding of the geodynamic processes that are involved in earthquake processes.

ThermoEurope

A combined thermochronology and analogue modelling approach to the coupling of tectonics and climate in the European Alps

TIPTIMON - Tien Shan - Pamir Monitoring Program

Seismotectonics of the Tajik-Afghan basin and western Pamir

TIPAGE - Seismology

The multi-disciplinary Tien Shan - Pamir Geodynamic program (TIPAGE) aims to exploit the Pamir, the western part of the Pamir-Tibet-Himalaya orogenic system, to address key questions in the geodynamics of continental collision and subduction.

ALECHILE - Numerical modeling of the earthquake cycle in relation to the long-term deformation of the Southern Andes

During a seismic cycle permanent upper plate deformation may be attained, which can be preserved in the geological record. Accumulation of permanent deformation over many seismic cycles may result from transient deformation related to the interplate earthquake cycle, from creeping of faults in the upper crust and/or ductile flow of lower crustal material. We explore how the unbalanced deformation within an earthquake cycle can reflect the geomorphic expression of long-term deformation.

FERGHANA

Active deformation of the Ferghana basin and surrounding mountain chains from analysis local earthquake data

ALPHA - Adriatic Lithospheric Investigation

ALPHA is an amphibious seismic investigation with the aim of studying the crustal structure of the Adriatic plate and its collision wit Eurasia on- and off-shore of Montenegro and Albania.

Shocks in a box

A hybrid analogue-elastic dislocation model of elastoviscoplastic earthquake cycles

ALOHA

In this project we attempt to constrain the tsunami risk on a global scale using analogue earthquake simulation in combination with theoretical and numerical tsunami models. 

Analogue earthquakes: Control of particle properties on stick-slip behavior of granular materials

A systematic SEM and shear test study linking frictional behavior to particle properties

Continental Collision Zones

Continental collision zones result from the (partial) subduction of continental lithosphere and accretion of crustal material, respectively.