Kamil Ustaszewski

Karrierestufen

Seit 2013: Professur in Strukturgeologie in Jena

2012-2013: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Geowissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin

2009-2012: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Deutschen GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ Potsdam

2008-2009: Postdoc am Department Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

2004-2007: Postdoc am Departement Geowissenschaften der Universität Basel, Schweiz

2000-2004: Doktorand am Departement Geowissenschaften der Universität Basel, Schweiz

Universitäre Ausbildung

2004: PhD (Dr. phil. II) in Geologie, Universität Basel, Schweiz

2000: Magister der Naturwissenschaften (Mag. rer. nat. in Geologie, Universität Innsbruck, Österreich

Betreuung wissenschaftlicher Sammlungen

Initiator und Kurator der tektonischen Sammlung der Universität Jena

Kurator der geologischen Kartensammlung der Universität Jena

Ausgewählte gemeinnützige Aktivitäten

Seit 2022

Vertreter des Instituts für Geowissenschaften Jena innerhalb der Konferenz der Fachbereiche Geowissenschaften (KFGeo)Externer Link

03/2018 - 06/2022

Präsident der TSK-Sektion (Fachsektion Tektonik-Strukturgeologie-KristallingeologieExterner Link) der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft (DGGV)Externer Link

Seit 2017

Zertifizierter betrieblicher Ersthelfer

Seit 2015

Vorstand der Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Geowissenschaften Jena e.V.

 

Ausgewählte administrative Tätigkeiten an der Uni Jena

Seit 2022

Mitglied im Studienausschuss des Universitätssenats

Seit 2020

Mitglied der Studienkommission der Chemisch-Geowissenschaftlichen Fakultät

Seit 2019

Vorsitzender des Prüfungsausschusses BSc & MSc Geowissenschaften

Mitglied des Auswahlausschusses des MSc Geowissenschaften

Seit 2017

Erasmus+ Koordinator für Geowissenschaften in Jena

 

Auszeichnungen und Anerkennungen

2023: Mitautor zweier vielzitierter Arbeiten (Top 1% in den Geowissenschaften gemäß Clarivate Web of ScienceExterner Link)

2006: Träger des Otto-Ampferer PreisesExterner Link der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft

Geförderte Forschungsprojekte

Seit 2023:

09/2023 - 08/2024: EVALBGEO: Evaluation of the Albanian geothermal energy potential. DAAD Leonhard-Euler program 2023-2024, DAAD project ID 57685848. Collaboration with Polytechnical University Tirana, Albania.

Seit 2020:

Identifying fossil fault activity along the eastern Periadriatic Fault system by means of combined OSL- and ESR-dating of fault gouges (NE Italy, S Austria and N Slovenia). Collaborative project with Sumiko TsukamotoExterner Link (LIAG Hannover), sub-project within the 2^nd phase of SPP 2017 "Mountain Building in Four Dimensions"Externer Link.

Mountain building in the Eastern and Southern Alps - large earthquakes and active faults. Collaborative project with Christoph Grützner en and Klaus ReicherterExterner Link (RWTH Aachen), sub-project within the 2^nd phase of SPP 2017 "Mountain Building in Four Dimensions"Externer Link.

Seit 2019:

The metamorphic Yuli Belt in Taiwan - Key to the tectonics of arc-continent collision and high-pressure rock exhumationExterner Link (collaborative project with Niko FroitzheimExterner Link (Bonn) and Chin-Ho TsaiExterner Link (Donghua University Taiwan), jointly funded by DFG and MoSTExterner Link.

Seit 2017:

Earth surface response to Quaternary faulting and shallow crustal structure in the eastern Adria-Alpine collision zone and the Friulian plain, collaborator with Christoph Grützner.Externer Link Sub-project within SPP 2017 "Mountain Building in Four Dimensions"Externer Link.

2014-2021:

Cross section balancing across the Taiwan fold-and-thrust beltExterner Link (DFG), in collaboration with Niko Froitzheim (Bonn).

Determining long-term slip rates in the Northern Zagros Fold-and-Thrust Belt (Kurdistan Region of Iraq) from tectonic geomorphology, structural modeling and OSL-datingExterner Link (DFG).

ALMOND - Albania and Montenegro Neotectonic DeformationExterner Link (DFG), in collaboration with Klaus Reicherter (RWTH Aachen).

KAPMED - Kinematic reconstructions of the Adriatic plate as a key to understanding subduction processes in the Western MediterraneanExterner Link (DFG), in collaboration with Eline Le Breton & Mark R. Handy (FU Berlin).

 

See also the following link to the DFG's GEPRIS databaseExterner Link.

 

Publikationen

Begutachtete Aufsätze

Eingereichte Aufsätze sowie solche in Prüfung oder Überarbeitung:

Richter, M., Pollok, K., Onuzi, K., Ustaszewski, K. (in revision): Tectonometamorphic evolution of a subduction plate interface at the base of the Mirdita Ophiolite (Bajram Curri, northeastern Albania), Swiss Journal of Geosciences.

Publizierte Aufsätze (verkehrt chronologisch gereiht):

Prince, E., Tsukamoto, S., Grützner, C., Vrabec. M. & Ustaszewski, K. (2024): Not too old to rock: ESR and OSL dating methods reveal Quaternary activity of the Periadriatic Fault. Earth, Planets and Space, 76:85, doi: 10.1186/s40623-024-02015-6Externer Link.

Jamšek Rupnik, P., Atanackov, J., Horn, B., Mušič, B., Zajc, M., Grützner, C., Ustaszewski, K., Tsukamoto, S., Novak, M., Milanič, B., Markelj, A., Ivančič, K., Novak, A., Jež, J., Žebre, M., Bavec, M., & Vrabec, M. (2024): Revealing Subtle Active Tectonic Deformation: Integrating Lidar, Photogrammetry, Field Mapping and Geophysical Surveys to Assess the Late Quaternary Activity of the Sava Fault (Southern Alps, Slovenia). Remote Sensing, 16, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16091490Externer Link.

Diercks, M.-L., Grützner, C., Welte, J. & Ustaszewski, K. (2023): Challenges of geomorphologic analysis of active tectonics in a slowly deforming karst landscape (W Slovenia and NE Italy). Geomorphology, 440, 108894, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108894Externer Link. 

Löwe, G., Prelević, D. & Ustaszewski, K. (2023): A first attempt at a provenance study in the Jadar block, Serbia, by means of U-Pb zircon geochronology. Geološki Anali Balkanskogo Poluostrva, 84(1), 17-31, doi: 10.2298/GABP230303005LExterner Link.

Balling, P., Tomljenović, B., Herak, M. & Ustaszewski, K. (2023): Impact of mechanical stratigraphy on deformation style and distribution of seismicity in the central External Dinarides: a 2D forward kinematic modelling study. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 116, doi: 10.1186/s00015-023-00437-0Externer Link.

Thieme, M., Jähne-Klingberg, F., Fügenschuh, B., Malz, A., Linnemann, U., Ustaszewski, K. (2023): The Late Mesozoic to Paleogene cooling history of the Thuringian Forest basement high and its southern periphery (central Germany) revealed by combined fission-track and U-Pb LA-ICP-MS dating, ZDGG, 174, 593-612, doi: 10.1127/zdgg/2023/0321Externer Link.

Zhang, Y., He, D., Ustaszewski, K., Zhao, L., Ji, Z., and Wang, Z. (2023): 台湾中央山脉东部变质作用及热演化：玉里缝合带的俯冲折返作用 [Thermal evolution of the metamorphism in the eastern Taiwan Central Range: Implications for Yuli Belt exhumation]. Chinese Journal of Geology, 58, 289-304, doi: 10.12017/dzkx.2023.020Externer Link.

Diercks, M., Grützner, C., Vrabec, M., & Ustaszewski, K. (2022): Addendum to Diercks et al., 2021: A model for the formation of the Pradol (Pradolino) dry valley in W Slovenia and NE Italy. Geologija, 65(1), 93-99. doi:10.5474/geologija.2022.006.Externer Link

Biermanns, P., Schmitz, B., Mechernich, S., Weismüller, C., Onuzi, K., Ustaszewski, K., Reicherter, K. (2022): Aegean-style extensional deformation in the contractional southern Dinarides: incipient normal fault scarps in Montenegro. Solid Earth 13, 957-974, doi: 10.5194/se-13-957-2022Externer Link.

Grützner, C., Aschenbrenner, S., Jamšek Rupnik, P., Reicherter, K., Saifelislam, N., Vičič, B., Vrabec, M., Welte, J., & Ustaszewski, K. (2021): Holocene surface-rupturing earthquakes on the Dinaric Fault System, western Slovenia. Solid Earth, 12, 2211–2234, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2211-2021Externer Link.

Zebari, M., Preusser, F., Grützner, C., Navabpour, P., Ustaszewski, K. (2021): Late Pleistocene-Holocene Slip Rates in the Northwestern Zagros Mountains Derived from Luminescence Dating of River Terraces and Structural Modeling. Tectonics, 40, e2020TC006565, doi: 10.1029/2020TC006565Externer Link.

Balling, P., Tomljenović, B., Schmid, S.M., Ustaszewski, K. (2021): Contrasting along-strike deformation styles in the external Dinarides: implications for the tectonic evolution of its Paleogene flexural foreland basin system. Global and Planetary Change, 205, 103587, 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103587Externer Link.

Diercks, M., Grützner, C., Vrabec, M., Ustaszewski, K. (2021): A model for the formation of the Pradol (Pradolino) dry valley in W Slovenia and NE Italy, Geologija, 64/1, 21-33, doi: 10.5474/geologija.2021.002. Externer Link

Löwe, G., Schneider, S., Sperner, B., Balling, P., Pfänder, J., Ustaszewski, K. (2021): Torn between two plates: exhumation of the Cer Massif (internal Dinarides) as a far-field effect of Carpathian slab rollback inferred from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating and cross section balancing. Tectonics, 40, e2021TC006699, doi: 10.1029/2021TC006699Externer Link.

Le Breton, E., Brune, S., Ustaszewski, K., Zahirovic, S., Seton, M., & Müller, R. D. (2021): Kinematics and extent of the Piemont-Liguria Basin – implications for subduction processes in the Alps: Solid Earth, 12, 885-913, doi: 10.5194/se-12-885-2021Externer Link.

Balling, P., Grützner, C., Tomljenović, B., Spakman, W., Ustaszewski, K. (2021): Post-collisional mantle delamination in the Dinarides implied from staircases of Oligo-Miocene uplifted marine terraces. Scientific Reports, 11, doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-81561-5Externer Link.

Zebari, M., Balling, P., Grützner, C., Navabpour, P., Witte, J., & Ustaszewski, K. (2020). Structural style of the NW Zagros Mountains and the role of basement thrusting for its Mountain Front Flexure, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Journal of Structural Geology, 141, 104206, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104206Externer Link.

Schmitz, B., Biermanns, P., Hinsch, R., Ðaković, M., Onuzi, K., Reicherter, K., & Ustaszewski, K. (2020). Ongoing shortening in the Dinarides fold-and-thrust belt: A new structural model of the 1979 (Mw 7.1) Montenegro earthquake epicentral region. Journal of Structural Geology, 141, 104192, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104192Externer Link.

Zhang, Y., Tsai, C.-H., Froitzheim, N., Ustaszewski, K. (2020). The Yuli Belt in Taiwan: part of the suture zone separating Eurasian and Philippine Sea plates. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 31, 415-435, doi: 10.3319/TAO.2020.06.28.01Externer Link.

Viscolani, A., Grützner, C., Diercks, M., Reicherter, K., & Ustaszewski, K. (2020). Late Quaternary Tectonic Activity of the Udine-Buttrio Thrust, Friulian Plain, NE Italy. Geosciences 10(2), 84, doi:10.3390/geosciences10020084Externer Link.

Schmid, S.M., Fügenschuh, B., Georgiev, N., Kounov A., Matenco, L., Nievergelt, P., Oberhänsli, R., Pleuger, J., Schefer, S., Schuster, R., Tomljenović, B., Ustaszewski, K., van Hinsbergen, D. (2020): Tectonic units of the Alpine collision zone between Eastern Alps and western Turkey, Gondwana Research, 78, 308-374, doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.005Externer Link.

Handy, M.R., Giese, J., Pleuger, J., Schmid, S.M., Spakman, W., Onuzi, K., Ustaszewski, K. (2019): Coupled Crust‐Mantle Response to Slab Tearing, Bending, and Rollback Along the Dinaride‐Hellenide Orogen, Tectonics, 38, 2803-2828, doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005524Externer Link.

Zebari, M., Grützner, C., Navabpour, P., Ustaszewski, K. (2019): Relative Timing of Uplift along the Zagros Mountain Front Flexure Constrained by Geomorphic Indices and Landscape Modelling, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Solid Earth, 10, 663-682, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-663-2019Externer Link.

Biermanns, P., Schmitz, B., Ustaszewski, K., Reicherter, K. (2019): Tectonic geomorphology and Quaternary landscape development in the Albania - Montenegro border region: An inventory. Geomorphology, 326, 116-131, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.09.014Externer Link.

Le Breton, E., Handy, M.R., Molli, G., Ustaszewski, K. (2017): Post-20 Ma motion and rotation of the Adriatic microplate – new constraints from surrounding orogens and implications for crust-mantle decoupling. Tectonics, 36, doi: 10.1002/2016TC004443Externer Link.

Dhansay, T., Navabpour, P., de Wit, M., Ustaszewski, K. (2017): Assessing the reactivation potential of pre-existing fractures in the southern Karoo, South Africa: evaluating the potential for sustainable exploration across its Critical Zone. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 134, 504-515.Externer Link

Navabpour, P., Malz, A., Kley, J., Siegburg, M., Kasch, N., Ustaszewski, K. (2017): Intraplate brittle deformation and states of paleostress constrained by fault kinematics in central German platform. Tectonophysics, 694, 146-163, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.11.033Externer Link.

Sandmann, S., Nagel, T.J., Froitzheim, N., Ustaszewski, K., Münker, C. (2015): Late Miocene to Early Pliocene blueschist from Taiwan and its exhumation via forearc extraction. Terra Nova, 27, 285-291Externer Link.

Handy, M.R., Ustaszewski, K., Kissling, E. (2015): Reconstructing the Alps-Carpathians-Dinarides as a key to understanding switches in subduction polarity, slab gaps and surface motion. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 104, 1-26Externer Link.

Ustaszewski, K., Herak, M., Herak, D., Tomljenović, B., Matej, S. (2014): Neotectonics of the Dinarides–Pannonian Basin Transition Area and possible earthquake sources in the Banja Luka epicentral area. Journal of Geodynamics, 82, 52-68Externer Link.

Ustaszewski, K., Wu, Y.-M., Suppe, J., Huang, H.-H., C.-H. Chang (2012): Crust-mantle boundaries in the Taiwan–Luzon arc-continent collision system determined from local earthquake tomography and 1D models. Tectonophysics, 578, 31–49Externer Link.

Ustaszewski, K., Kounov, A., Schmid, S.M., Schaltegger, U., Krenn, E., Frank, W., Fügenschuh, B. (2010): Evolution of the Adria–Europe plate boundary in the northern Dinarides: From continent-continent collision to back-arc extension. Tectonics, 29, TC6017, doi:10.1029/2010TC002668Externer Link.

Ustaszewski, K., S. M. Schmid, B. Lugović, R. Schuster, U. Schaltegger, D. Bernoulli, L. Hottinger, A. Kounov, B. Fügenschuh, and S. Schefer (2009): Late Cretaceous intra-oceanic magmatism in the internal Dinarides (northern Bosnia and Herzegovina): Implications for the collision of the Adriatic and European plates. Lithos, 108, 106-125Externer Link.

Ustaszewski, K., S. M. Schmid, B. Fügenschuh, M. Tischler, E. Kissling, and W. Spakman (2008): A map-view restoration of the Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic system for the Early Miocene. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101 (Supplement Issue 1), 273-294Externer Link.

Krenn, E., Ustaszewski, K., Finger, F. (2008): Detrital and newly formed metamorphic monazite in amphibolite-facies metapelites from the Motajica Massif. North Bosnia. Chemical Geology 254, 164-174Externer Link.

Schmid, S. M., Bernoulli, D., Fügenschuh, B., Matenco, L., Schefer, S., Schuster, R., Tischler, M. & Ustaszewski, K. (2008): The Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system: correlation and evolution of tectonic units. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 101, 139-183Externer Link.

Hinsken, S., Ustaszewski, K., Wetzel, A. (2007): Graben-width controls synrift sedimentation: the Palaeogene Upper Rhine Graben as an example. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 96, 979-1002.Externer Link

Ustaszewski, K., Schmid, S.M. (2007): Latest Pliocene to recent thick-skinned tectonics at the Upper Rhine Graben - Jura Mountains junction. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 100, 293-312Externer Link.

Cloetingh, S., Ziegler, P.A., Cornu, T., Ustaszewski, K., Schmid, S.M., Dèzes, P., Hinsch, R., Decker, K., Lopes Cardozo, G., Granet, M., Bertrand, G., Behrmann, J., Michon, L., Pagnier, H., Rozsa, S., Heck, B., Kahle, H.G., Winter, T., Dewez, T., Tesauro, M. (2006): Neotectonics and intraplate continental topography of the northern Alpine Foreland. Earth-Science Reviews, 74, 127-196Externer Link.

Ustaszewski K., Schmid, S.M. (2006): Control of pre-existing faults on geometry and kinematics in the northernmost part of the Jura fold-and-thrust belt, Tectonics, 25, TC5003, doi:10.1029/2005TC001915Externer Link.

Picot, L., Becker, D., Lapaire, F., Ustaszewski, K., Hug, W.A., Berger, J.P. (2005): Sédimentologie, paléontologie et reconstruction des paléo-environnements côtiers de la bordure sud-rhénane (Groupe des Gompholites et Conglomérats, Paléogène, Jura, Suisse). Eclog. Geol. Helv., 98, 281-296Externer Link.

Ustaszewski, K., Schumacher, M.E., Schmid, S.M., Nieuwland, D. (2005): Erratum to ‘‘Fault reactivation in brittle-viscous wrench systems – Dynamically scaled analogue models and application to the Rhine–Bresse transfer zone’’. Quaternary Science Reviews 24, 2303Externer Link.

Ustaszewski, K., Schumacher, M.E., Schmid, S.M. (2005): Simultaneous normal faulting and extensional flexuring during rifting – an example from the southernmost Upper Rhine Graben. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 94, 680-696Externer Link.

Ustaszewski, K., Schumacher, M.E., Schmid, S.M., Nieuwland, D. (2005): Fault reactivation in brittle-viscous wrench systems – dynamically scaled analogue models and application to the Rhine-Bresse Transfer Zone. Quaternary Science Reviews 24, 365-382Externer Link.

Giamboni, M., Ustaszewski, K., Schmid, S.M., Schumacher, M.E., Wetzel, A. (2004) Plio-Pleistocene Transpressional Reactivation of Paleozoic and Paleogene Structures in the Rhine-Bresse transform Zone (northern Switzerland and eastern France). International Journal of Earth Sciences 93, 207–223.Externer Link

Cloetingh, S., Ziegler, P.A., Cornu, T., Ustaszewski, K., Schmid, S.M., Dèzes, P., Hinsch, R., Decker, K., Lopes Cardozo, G., Granet, M., Bertrand, G., Behrmann, J., Michon, L., Pagnier, H., van Wees, J.-D., Rozsa, S., Heck, B., Verdun, J., Kahle, H.-G., Fracassi, U., Winter, T., Burov, E. (2003): Investigating Environmental Tectonics in Northern Alpine Foreland of Europe. Eos 84(36), 356–357Externer Link.

Nicht begutachtete Aufsätze (verkehrt chronologisch gereiht):

Ebell, H,. Grützner, C. & Ustaszewski, K. (2024): Neuinterpretation der Stratigraphie des Salinarröts am Ostrand der Thüringer Mulde. Beitr. Geol. Thür., N.F. 29, 149-193Externer Link.

Dichtl, M., Grützner, C. & Ustaszewski, K. (2023): Genese des Schlangengipses im Thüringer Zechstein. Beitr. Geol. Thür., N.F. 28, 47-90Externer Link.

Ebell, H,. Grützner, C. & Ustaszewski, K. (2023): Genese der Faltung und der Fasergipse des Salinarröts am Ostrand der Thüringer Mulde. Beitr. Geol. Thür., N.F. 28, 91-125Externer Link.

Zinke, C., Navabpour, P., Ustaszewski, K. (2016). Analyse des Bruchflächeninventars in Grundgebirgs- und Rotliegendaufschlüssen am Nordrand des Thüringer Waldes bei Ilmenau (Thüringen) hinsichtlich der Versagenstendenz im rezenten Spannungsfeld. Beitr. Geol. Thüringen, N.F. 22, 137-152Externer Link.

Zinke, C., Ustaszewski, K. (2015): Geologische Neukartierung am Nordrand des Thüringer Waldes bei Ilmenau. Beitr. Geol. Thüringen, N.F. 22, 127-136Externer Link.

Ustaszewski, K., Schmid, S.M. (2007). Neotectonic activity in the Upper Rhine Graben - Jura Mountains junction (North-Western Switzerland and adjacent France). Bulletin für Angewandte Geologie, 12 (1), 3-19Externer Link.

Ergänzende Datensätze (verkehrt chronologisch gereiht):

Zhang, Y. & Ustaszewski, K. (2023): Thermal evolution of the metamorphism in the eastern Taiwan Central Range: implications for Yuli Belt exhumation [Supplementary data set]. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7545914Externer Link.

Zebari, M., Preusser, F., Grützner, C., Navabpour, P. and Ustaszewski, K. (2021): Luminescence Dating of River Terraces along the banks of the Greater Zab River in the Northwestern Zagros Mountains in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.933900Externer Link.

Löwe, G., Schneider, S., Sperner, B., Balling, P., Pfänder, J. A., & Ustaszewski, K. (2021): Supplementary material to: "Torn between two plates: exhumation of the Cer Massif (internal Dinarides) as a far-field effect of Carpathian slab rollback inferred from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating and cross section balancing", doi: dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4678734Externer Link.

Grützner, C., Aschenbrenner, S., Krämer, A., Reicherter, K., Saifelislam, N., Ustaszewski, K., Viscolani, A., Welte, J. (2020). Geophysical survey (GPR, ERT, magnetic) on active faults in Slovenia and Italy. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.922902Externer Link.

 

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