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Neda and Christoph will give keynote lectures at the annual meeting of the DGGV and DMG

Benjamin Schmitz successfully defended his PhD thesis on 2026-07-03. His topic was: "Contrasting deformation styles along an active thrust belt front – The External Dinarides and Hellenides".

A new study using paleoseismology, geomorphology, and archaeology uncovers the earthquake history of the North America - Caribbean plate boundary fault in Guatemala

The western end of the Motagua Fault was the target of a field campaign in Christoph Grützner's DFG-funded Guatemala project.

From 2-6 March, the block course “Multiview Photogrammetry: 3D Virtual Geology for Everyone” took place as part of MGEO005. The lecturer was Prof. Dr. Marko Vrabec from the University of Ljubljana.

Erick Prince successfully defended his dissertation "Identifying fossil fault activity along the eastern Periadriatic Fault system by means of combined OSL- and ESR-dating of fault gouges" on December 1, 2025.

Using a combination of geophysics, geomorphology, and paleoseismology, we can show that the Podhale Basin in the Polish Western Carpathians is tectonically active.

In a new paper we investigate the tectonic geomorphology of Slovenia and we point out why commonly used methods often do not work.

In a new study, we show that an earthquake and a debris flow devastated the archaeological site of Pikillaqta in Peru between 776 and 986 AD. These disasters marked the end of the Wari culture in Pikillaqta.

Compact course for MSc.-students 2-6 March, 2026. Topics: Photogrammetry, Structure-from-Motion and Virtual Geology/3D outcrops. Teaching language will English; the course will be held by Marko Vrabec from Uni Ljubljana.

two-years full-time postdoc position open in our team, starting 1 January, 2026.