Studies and Teaching

Bachelorstudiengang Geowissenschaften

• Geländetage München und Umgebung (P3.4)
• Endogene Dynamik (P4.1, Geo III)
• Geländeübungen, Kartierung Kreta, Ries (WP31)
• Strukturgeologie (WP41)
• Bachelorarbeit (P6)

Master Program Geomaterials and Geochemistry

• Polarized light microscopy (P3.2)Deformation and Transformation - Rheology of Rocks (WP 25)
• High Resolution Microccopy (P4)
• Various field trips (impact geology, tectonics, structural geology, petrology, WP13, 21)
• Master Thesis (P8) (topics please see https://www.endogene.geowissenschaften.uni-muenchen.de/research_projects/index.html)

Doctoral students

• Dr. Fabian Dellefant (2024): Magnetic properties and microfabrics of shocked minerals and their influence on the magnetic anomalies in the Ries, Vredefort and Manicouagan impact structures (since January 2020)
• Dr. Lisa Brückner (2023): Transient deformation and long-lived shear zone activity (since June 2019)
• Dr. Felix Hentschel (2020): Deformation behaviour of feldspar in greenschist facies granitoide shear zones
• Dr. Lina Seybold (2019): The geological record of the lowermost tectonic unit of the Cretan nappe pile in the Talea Ori, Crete, Greece - the deformation history during burial and exhumation
• Dr. Anthony Druiventak (2012): Experimental high-stress deformation and annealing of peridotite - simulating coseismic deformation and postseismic creep
• Dr. Agnes Matysiak (PhD 2012): Microfabric development in peridotites during deformation controlled by the seismic cycle

Master students

• E. Prince: Microfabric development of shear zone eclogites from the Western Gneiss Region, Norway (2020)
• J. Considene: The relationship between mylonitic deformation and pseudotachylyte-formation in fault rocks from the base of the Silvretta nappe, Eastern Alps (2020)
• C. Mertens: High-grade deformation of orthopyroxene – microfabric in gneisses from Gjelsvikfjella, Antarctica (2020)
• T. Alatrach: Shear band cleavage in a quartz-rich mylonite from the Defereggen-Antholz-Vals (DAV) shear zone in the Eastern Alps (2019)
• J. van Lier: Faults and fault rocks at the Southern border of the Talea Ori, Crete (2017)
• C. Hsu: Recrystallization of deformed quartz - dynamic recrystallization versus nucleation and growth (2016)
• C. Peinelt: Monazite and other accessory minerals in HP-LT metamorphic rocks of the Talea Ori, Crete (2016)
• V. Wichmann: Fault rocks of the Silvretta basal thrust zone, Switzerland (2015)
• F. Hentschel: Deformation and reactions in mylonitic pegmatites in the Eastern Alps south of the Tauern window and west of the Tauferer valley (2014)
• R. Gutknecht: The lowermost unit of the Cretan nappe pile in the Talea Ori, Greece (2014)
• Ch. Schneider: Pseudotachylytes at the base of the Silvretta nappe, Eastern Alps (2013)
• K. Döhler: Deformation related to the DAV fault system in the Eastern Alps south of the Tauern window and west of the Tauferer valley (2012)
• A. Rogowitz: Deformed coronitic eclogites from the Sunnfjord area, Western Gneiss Region, Norway (2011)
• V. Helpa: Deformation history of dunites from the peridotite complex at Almklovdalen, Norway (2010)
• J. Dröger: Recrystallization of shocked quartz from the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa (2010)
• J. Bial: Microfabric development in serpentinite mylonites from the Erro-Tobbio unit of the Voltri massif, Italy (2010)
• P. Jakschik: Pseudotachylytes at the base of the Silvretta Nappe, Eastern Alps (2010)