Ongoing projects

  • The role of sheet silicates for mountain building processes (PhD projects of Vénice Akker and James Gilgannon; SNF project 162340)
  • 4D analogue modelling of oblique rifts and obliquely rifted margins. (PhD project of Timothy Schmid and postdoc project of Frank Zwaan; SNF-Project 178731)
  • Fluids and new fluid tracers in water under-saturated continental crust: From rifting to tectonic inversion (PhD project of Veronica Peverelli; SNF project 178785)
  • 3D structural model of the Aar Massif (PhD project of Ferdinando Musso Piantelli; in collaboration with swisstopo)
  • SeismoTeCH: Link between fault pattern and active seismic activity in Switzerland (PhD project of Sandro Truttmann; project of the Swiss Geophysical Commission; in collaboration with SED and swisstopo)
  • Deformation mechanisms and strain localization in lower crust: the role of solid-state versus melt assisted deformation in high grade shear zones (scientific exchange project of Prof. Renata Schmitt; SNF project 191196)
  • Deformation of Fine-Grained Granitoid Fault Rocks Microstructures, Deformation Processes & Rheology. SNF project 200020_192124 (PhD projects of N.A. yet).
  • Dating of cleft minerals in the Alps in cooperation with Edwin Gnos (Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneve)
  • Correlation of the evolution of the European continental margin over time and space with special reference to the Valaisan domain
  • Measurements of permeabilities in fault rocks and their scale dependency controlled by fault architecture (Grimsel Breccia Fault)
  • Investigations of “non-ore-deposit-related” cockade structures and their role for seismicity in hydrothermal fault rocks.