Benjamin Schmitz
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, (MSc 2015 TU Darmstadt)
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.