Funktion und Aufgaben:

Wissenschaftliche Interessen:

• Geodynamics of tectonic processes at plate boundaries.
• Geodesy and numerical modeling.
• Earthquake cycle deformation processes at variable spatial and temporal scales.
• Integration of short- and long-term crustal deformations.

Projekte:

• Ÿ  MAule eaRthquake: Integration of Seismic Cycle Observations and Structural investigations (DFG, German Research Foundation).
• Ÿ Neotectonics of the Pamir and western Tien Shan – active displacement field from GPS-geodesy (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF).
• ZIP: Zoom in between the Plates (A european Initial Training Network- Marie Curie Actions).
• AleChile: Numerical modeling of earthquake cycle in relation with long-term deformation of the Southern Andes (DAAD-Conicyt).

Wissenschaftliche Gremien:

• Reviewer for Nature Geoscience, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, International Journal of Earth Sciences, Geology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letter, Tectonophysics, Mathematical Geosciences and Geophysical Journal International.
• Reviewer for the Chilean Government Research Funding Agency (CONICYT).