Benjamin Schmitz

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, (MSc 2015 TU Darmstadt)

Forschungsinteressen

Ich studiere aktive Tektonik anhand bilanzierter Profile, die ich mit Hilfe von Geländebeobachtungen, seismischen Daten und Fernerkundung erstelle. Meine Forschungsgebiete waren hauptsächlich Deutschland, Spanien (Pyrenäen) und die Helleniden und Dinariden des südlichen Balkans. Derzeit beschäftige ich mich mit den strukturellen Unterschieden zwischen den südlichen Dinariden und den nördlichen Helleniden im Rahmen des DFG-Projektes ALMONDExterner Link.

Ausgeübte Stelle

  • 2015-2019: DFG-finanzierter Doktorand in der Arbeitsgruppe Strukturgeologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Hochschulbildung

  • 2015 Master of Science - Angewandte Geowissenschaften, Technische Universität Darmstadt
    Masterarbeit: Balancing and structural geology of the Boltaña-Anticline, Southern Pyrenees, Spain.
  • 2012 Bachelor of Science - Geowissenschaften, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
    Bachelorarbeit: Analogmodellierung von Chocolate-Tablet Strukturen bei verschiedenen
    Viskositätskontrasten.

Wissenschaftliche Aktivitäten

PhD student in a joint research programme with colleagues from RWTH AachenExterner Link on neotectonics and earthquake hazards in the area of Northern Albania and Southern Montenegro.

Preise und Auszeichnungen

  • Bestes studentisches Poster, TSK Meeting Jena, 2018.
  • Stipendium der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes für die Masterarbeit  2012-2015

Veröffentlichungen

Fachartikel

  • 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, 104192, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104192Externer Link.
  • Biermanns, P., Schmitz, B., Externer LinkUstaszewski, 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.

Konferenzbeiträge

  • Schmitz, B., Biermanns, P., Djakovic, M., Reicherter, K., Ustaszewski, K., 2018. Structural framework of the 1979 Mw 7.1 Montenegro earthquake. Conference poster, Annual DGGV meeting 2018, Bonn.
  • Biermanns, P., Schmitz, B., Ustaszewski, K., Pingel, J., Onuzi, K., Reicherter, K., 2018. Dry valley race: What geomorphology tells us about active deformation in the Adria-Eurasia collision zone. Conference talk, Annual DGGV meeting 2018, Bonn.
  • Kremser, R., Freudenberg, L., Korsten, Ph., Biermanns, P., Schmitz, B., Reicherter, K., 2018. Tectonics shaping the landscape of Southern Montenegro and Northern Albania: A multidisciplinary study of Holocene surface processes at the Dinarides-Hellenides transition. Conference poster, Annual DGGV meeting 2018, Bonn.
  • Schmitz, B., Biermanns, P., Ustaszewski, K., Mechernich, S., Dakovic, M., Sokol, K., Reicherter, K., 2018. Active normal faults within the convergent thrust belt front of the Southern Dinarides (Montenegro & Albania). Converence poster, 17th Symposium on Tectonics, Structural Geology and Cristalline Geology (TSK), Jena.
  • Pingel, J., Schmitz, B., Balling, P., Ustaszewski, K., 2018. A new balanced cross section across the Southern Dinarides fold-and-thrust belt in the vicinity of the Montenegro 1979 Mw 7.1 earthquake epicenter. Conference poster, 17th Symposium on Tectonics, Structural Geology and Cristalline Geology (TSK), Jena.
  • Biermanns, P., Schmitz, B., Ustaszewski, K., Mechernich, S., Dakovic, M., Sokol, K., Reicherter, K., 2018. Tectonic imprint on landscape evolution at the Dinarides - Hellenides transition (Southern Montenegro and Northern Albania). Converence talk, 17th Symposium on Tectonics, Structural Geology and Cristalline Geology (TSK), Jena.
  • Mechernich, S., Schneiderwind, S., Mason, J., Biermanns, P., Schmitz, B., Papanikolaou, I., Reicherter, K., 2018. Paleoseismology using bedrock fault planes. Conference talk, EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna.
  • Biermanns, P., Schmitz, B., Ustaszewski, K., Reicherter, K., 2017.The External Dinarides of Southern Montenegro and Northern Albania: Contraction vs. extension - Instrumentally recorded seismicity vs. field observations. Conference poster, 15th Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2017, Davos.
  • Schmitz, B., Ustaszewski, K., Wemmer, K., Onuzi, K., Muceku, B., 2017. Kinematics and age of the orogen-perpendicular Shkodër-Peja-Normal-Fault, northern Albania. Conference poster, 13th Workshop on Alpine Geological Studies - Émile Argand Conference (EGU Series) 2017, Zlatibor.
  • Biermanns, P., Schmitz, B., Ustaszewski, K., Reicherter, K., 2017. Regional-scale extension in the contractional External Dinarides of Southern Montenegro and Northern Albania. Conference poster, 13th Workshop on Alpine Geological Studies - Émile Argand Conference (EGU Series) 2017, Zlatibor.
  • Schmitz, B., Biermanns, P., Ustaszewski, K., Reicherter, K., 2017. Regional-scale extension in the contractional External Dinarides, Montenegro and northern Albania. Does it document the onset of "Aegean-style" tectonics? Conference talk, 13th Workshop on Alpine Geological Studies - Émile Argand Conference (EGU Series) 2017, Zlatibor.
  • Biermanns, P., Schmitz, B., Ustaszewski, K., Reicherter, K., 2017. Inferences on landscape development in Southern Montenegro and Northern Albania from geomorphic and drill core data. Conference poster, 13th Workshop on Alpine Geological Studies - Émile Argand Conference (EGU Series) 2017, Zlatibor.
  • Schmitz, B., Biermanns, P., Ustaszewski, K., Reicherter, K., 2016. Neogene multidirectional extension in the Adria-Eurasia collision zone of northern Albania. Conference poster, Annual DGGV meeting 2016, Innsbruck.
  • Schmitz, B., Ustaszewski, K., Schmid, S.M., 2016. The Shkodër-Peja Fault and its role in Neogene tectonics of the Dinarides-Hellenides transition zone. Conference poster, 16th Symposium of Tectonics, Structural Geology and Crystalline Geology (TSK) 2016, Bonn.