Current Postdoc

• Simon Schorn
  Focus: Metamorphic Petrology of Hydration
  Funded by: Self-supported by FWF Project 2020-2023

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Current PhD students

• Gerit Gradwohl
  Focus: Burial dating of cave sediments.
  Funded by: FWF Projekt P31609-NBL

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Current MSc Students

• Konstantin Hohmann (start 2019) (Neotectonics and geomorphology of the Fischbacher Alps)
• Sebastian Stumpf (start 2021) (Metamorphic field gradients in the Rottenmanner/Wölzer Tauern) (together with Etienne Skrzypek)
• Sarah Schaffer (start 2021) (The relationship between catchment area and discharge) (together with Gerfried Winkler)

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Alumni (since 1999)

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

• Thorsten Bartosch
  Focus: Numerical modelling of Landscapes
  Funded by: DFG Project Earthshape SSP-1803
• Stefan Hergarten (2011)
  Industry funded Africa Geology Project
  Now at: Freiburg Univwersity
• Jörg Robl (2005 - 2008)
  FWF Project P-18341 (PI Robl) Numerical Models for the Eastern Alps
  Now at: ALP infra consulting;
• Vroni Tenczer (2005 - 2008)
  FWF Project Herta Firnberg T247 (PI Tenczer) Lower crustal processs / Tansania
• Helmut Sölva (2004 - 2005)
  FWF Project P-15474 Mechanics of Deformation of the eastern Alps
  Now at: EUT Brixen ; email: Helmuth.soelva@rolmail.net
• Alex Kühn (2002 - 2003)
  FWF Project P-15474-GEO (Petrology, eclogite formation)
  Now at: GEXCO Norway
• Dave Coblentz (2001 - 2002)
  FWF M547, Lise Meitner Fellow. Interpretation of topogaphic directivity
  Now at: Los Alamos National Laboratories USA; email: coblentz@lanl.gov
• Andreas Wölfler (Postdoctoral fellow)
  focus: low-T geochronology, landscape evolution, neotectonics
  funded by: FWF-EUROCORES: I152: TOPO-ALPS
• Hassan Abbas (MSc)
  focus: strucutral geology, Wadi Mubarak, Egypt
  funded by: Erasmus
• Wentian Liang (Postdoc)
  focus: Strucutral geology of grnaite emplacement
  funded by: Asia-Pacific Net
  ph: (43)-316-3805680; email: wtliang@nwu.edu.cn
• Tamer Abu-Alam (2009 - 2013)
  FWF Project P22351 Geology of Saudi Arabia
  Now at Polar Institute in Tromso / Norway
• Elena Sizova (FWF Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Fellow 2013-2014)
  Focus: numerical modelling of plate tectonic processes
  Funded by: FWF Lise Meitner Project

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PhD STUDENTS

• Rob Watson (2019)
  Focus: Burial dating of cave sediments.
  Funded by: FWF Project P31609-NBL
• Mahmoud Hassan (2011 – 2014)
  funded by: Erasmus Mundus
  Now at Suez Canal University
• Nicolas Legrain (2008 - 2013)
  ESF Project I152 Topo-Alps
  Now in France / South America
• Deta Gasser (2007 - 2010)
  FWF Project P19366 Tectonics Chugach Metamorphic Complex, Alaska
  Now at: PGP Oslo;
• Emilie Bruand (2007 - 2010)
  FWF Project P19366 Tectonics Chugach Metamorphic Complex, Alaska
  Now at: Portsmouth University UK;
• Tom Wagner (2006 - 2010)
  GASS PhD scholarship: Landscape evolution of the Eastern Alps
  Now at: Hydrogeology group University of Graz
• Tamer Abu-Alam (2006 - 2010)
  OeAD PhD scholarship Tectonics of Sinai, Egypt
  Now at: Graz University
• Jörg Robl (2002 - 2005)
  FWF project: Mechanics of Alpine Deformation
• Vroni Tenczer (1998 - 2001)
  FWF Project P-12846-GEO: Field gradient of the eclogite type locality.
• Christian Biermeier (1999 - 2002)
  Austrian Academy of Science PhD award: Tectonic evolution of the Redbank Thrust / Australia
  Now at: Poyry Infra GmbH Salzburg
• Ahmed Shalaby (1999-2001)
  OeAD exchange programme: Tectonic evolution of Wadi Mubarak Belt, Egypt
  Now at: Mansoura University, Egypt
• Manuel Riesco (2000 - 2003)
  FWF Project P-12846 and: Spanish scholarship: Silica depleted melting in Susqueda, Spain
  Now at: WEBER Spain;
• Philipp Strauss (2000 - 2003)
  FWF project P-15474; Landscape evolution of the Styrian Basin
  Now at: OeMV Austria
• Syed Ali Turab (2013 - 2017)
  Focus: Low temperature geochronology in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan
• Angela Oswald (unfinished)
  focus: neotectonics, landscape evolution of Sinai
  funded by: FWF-Project: P22351-N22 Tectonics of the Najd Fault System, Saudi Arabia
  ph: (43)-316-3805680; email: angela.oswald@uni-graz.at

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MASTER STUDENTS

• Gustav Hanke (2010 - 2014)
  Low-temperature Geochronology in Sinai / Egypt
• Conny Roffeis (2007 - 2008)
  Barometric constraints on the vorticity of the Plattengneiss shear zone
  Now at: PhD student at PGP Oslo
• Martin Putz (2003 - 2004)
  Three dimensional modelling of the Plattengneiss Shear zone
  Now at: egis tunnels, France
• Christian Aufreiter (Satellite image interpretation)
• Florian Dertnig (Neotectonics, Kalkspitze region / Niedere Tauern)
• Simon Schorn (Petrology of the Plankogel Series, Saualpe)
• Mohammed Osman (mining engineering at Leoben University)
• Sebastian Wiesmair (Prehistoric monuments in Styria)
• Thorsten Bartosch (finished 2017)
• Alexandra Herg (finished 2017)
• Christoph Pucher (finished 2017)

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