Alejandro Bande

Andrey Babeyko

Dr. Carolina Montero is an associate researcher from CONICET. Her research focuses on the Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Andes in NW Argentina, enclosing from the Paleogene deformation and sedimentation in the Puna-Eastern Cordillera transition, to the neotectonics in the intermontane valleys. 

Cecilia Del Papa

Clara Cisterna

Daniel Starck

Dr. Diego Winocur

Dirk Sachse is a principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and heads a Research Group and the Organic Surface Geochemistry Lab at GFZ Potsdam. He applies organic geochemical methods, including compound-specific biomarker stable isotope analysis and high-resolution mass spectrometry to develop a process understanding of the organic carbon cycle and past abrupt climatic changes. In particular he is interested in the interactions between earth surface processes, tectonics the carbon cycle and climate. Major research topics include understanding the drivers, feedbacks and effects of past abrupt climate change on ecosystems, the hydrological cycle and earth surface processes as well as constraining carbon cycle budgets in modern fluvial systems. He holds an ERC Consolidator Grant (STEEPclim) to study spatiotemporal hydrological changes in Europe during the Late Glacial period.

Personal profile GFZ Potsdam: here
Personal profile Potsdam University: here

Francisco Cordoba

Francisco Latosinski

Heiko Pingel is a postdoc in the International Research Training School "StRATEGY" and member of the Geology Department at the University of Potsdam. After his diploma on the neotectonic landscape evolution of intermontane basins in NW Argentina, he received his doctorate for his work on mountain building and climate-system interactions in the southern central Andes. His research focuses on the palaeo-environmental reconstruction of intermontane basins using U-Pb geochronology, stable isotope and in situ cosmogenic nuclide geochemistry, sedimentology and paleo-landscape reconstructions with the aim of investigating the interactions between climate, tectonics and surface processes over the past 10-15 Myr.

Personal profile Potsdam University: here

Javier Quinteros

José Mescua

Researcher at the Tectonics Group of the Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA-CONICET) and Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo.
My research is dedicated to structural geology and tectonic evolution of subduction systems, focusing on the Andes and the Central American margin in Costa Rica. 

I am Dr. in Geology, Associate Profesor  of the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales  (Universidad Nacional deTucumán-Argentina) since 2015 and Researcher of the Instituto Superior de Correlación Geológica (INSUGEO-CONICET, Argentina). My reserch interests are the Petrology and Geochemistry of igneous rocks, specially in relation with geochronologyes, magmatic genesis and process of emplacement of them; the  physical-chemical conditions and deformational processes of the metamorphic basement  rocks of low and medium P/T ratio and their relations with the geodynamic environment. I am currently carring out studies of geochemical sedimentary provenance, tectonic and metamorphic evolultion  of a Neoproterozoic sedimentary basin of Pampean Ranges. I think  the ongoing detailed structural studies in the region, combined with the geochronology of intrusive and metamorphic units, should provide some keys to understand the processes that conformed the region during the lower Paleozoic.

Judith Sippel is principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and senior scientist in the Basin Modeling section at GFZ Potsdam. Her research focuses on the lithosphere-scale structure and thermal field of sedimentary basins as a basis for investigating their tectonic evolution and georesource potentials. She develops three-dimensional (3D) subsurface models by integrating diverse types of observations such as gravity, seismic, and borehole data. Her interest is in developing best practice for the assessment of the present-day configuration of the sedimentary cover, crust and mantle in terms of rock physical properties. Such data-driven 3D basin models allow her to perform 3D numerical simulations of physical processes such as for heat transport, infer spatial variations in key characteristics such as mechanical strength, and reconstruct basin history.

Liliana Lupo

Luis Palazzesi

Marcelo Arnosio

Maria Laura Gomez Dacal is researcher in the Basin Modeling section (4.5) at GFZ Potsdam. Her research interests are gravity and isostasy modelling, as well as, the investigation of the thermal and stress field to assess the present-day configuration of the lithosphere. More specifically, she integrates geophysical and geological information into 3D lithospheric-scale models of the subsurface to, in a further step, run 3D numerical simulations and obtain the distribution of physical properties, such as, density, temperature, strength.

Patricia Alvarado

Raúl Lira

Ricardo Szupiany

Robert Ondrak is principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and senior scientist in the Organic Geochemistry section at GFZ Potsdam. His expertise is in modeling petroleum systems, mass and heat transport, fluid rock interactions, and geological processes. More specifically, he uses state of the art modeling packages to construct geological models from well and seismic data which provide the basis for detailed modeling of the burial and temperature history of sedimentary basin. The basin models provide the framework to model oil and gas generation, migration, accumulation and leakage.  Some of the project he is currently involved in projects are a study of the basin evolution of the Lower Magdalena Valley, Colombia and a study of the origin and fate of biogenic methane of Block B13 in the Dutch North Sea.

Personal profile GFZ Potsdam: here

Robert (Bob) Trumbull is a principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and senior scientist in the Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry section at the GFZ Potsdam. His research focuses on igneous petrology,  geochemistry and economic geology of magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits.  He has worked for more than 20 years on various aspects of the Central Andes volcanic arc in Chile and Argentina. In the "StRATEGy" team he is investigating the origin of ore deposits related to magmatism in this region.

Personal profile GFZ Potsdam: here

Personal profile Potsdam University: here

Torsten Schmidt is principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy", senior scientist in the "Space Geodetic Techniques" section at GFZ Potsdam, and head of the working group "GNSS Radio Occultation". His working areas are atmospheric physics and climate with special focus on the application of radio occultation data for temperature monitoring in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, tropopause dynamics and gravity wave analysis. Furthermore, he is interested in time series analysis and the relation between changes in atmospheric parameters (temperature, precipitation) and natural variability (ENSO, QBO and solar cycle).

Volker Lüders

Philipp Weis

Dr. Sasha Brune is the head of Geodynamic Modelling Section at the GeoForschungsZentrum in Potsdam.

His general scientific interests comprise lithosphere dynamics, natural hazards, plate tectonics, climate and their intricate links.

His current main focus lies on the dynamics of rifting and continental breakup across the scales: from the localisation of faults and shear zones to lithospheric necking and the interaction with mantle convection and large-scale plate tectonics.

More info at his official profile page from the GFZ: https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/staff/sascha-brune/?

Achim Brauer is principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and holds a professorship in paleoclimatology at the University of Potsdam. He is head of the Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution section at GFZ Potsdam. His research focuses on natural climate variability in the past and the underlying driving factors as well as the impacts of climate change on landscapes and specifically the human habitat. He exploits climate archives with seasonal resolution from Quaternary time scales ranging from recent historical and pre-historical times to previous interglacials as examples for a world without interference by man.

Personal profile GFZ Potsdam: here

Alejandro De la Torre

Andreas Güntner

Bodo Bookhagen is principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and holds a professorship in remote sensing at the University of Potsdam. He applies a combination of remote sensing, field, laboratory, and numerical methods to understand and quantify climatic and geomorphic processes. More specifically, he relies on optical, active and passive radar satellite imagery to quantify climatic parameters (precipitation, snowcover) and he identifies their variability through time. In the field, he studies geomorphic processes and determines some of their rates in the laboratory through cosmogenic nuclide measurements. Furthermore, he relies on a terrestrial laser scanner to produce cm-scale digital elevation models (DEMs) and performs change-detection methods.

Personal profile Potsdam University: here

Brian Horsfield

- Instituto de Geocronología y Geología Isotópica, CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Av. Int. Güiraldes s/n Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, C1428, Argentina.

- Universidad de Buenos Aires, Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Pabellón II Av. Int. Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Claudia Inés Galli is Professor of National University of Salta and Independent Researcher of CONICET (INECOA – UNJu). My expertise combine the regional studies of mountain belts and basin analysis research applied to understand the evolution of the Central Andes, mainly focuses on the Eastern Cordillera and Puna regions. The research is related with to carry out the adjustment in the stratigraphy and tectonic events occurred during the evolution of Andean foreland basin in northwestern Argentina (e.g. area of south of Calchaquí, Tonco, Amblayo valleys and lately in the Quebrada de Humahuaca).  Has involved analysis of the paleoenvironmental, paleogeographic and paleoclimatic conditions in its deposits.

Claudia B. Prezzi is principal investigator of the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy", senior researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council - Argentina (CONICET) and holds a professorship in geophysics at Buenos Aires University (Argentina). Her research interests are magnetic, gravity and isostasy modeling, applied to the investigation of sedimentary basins evolution and thermal and geodynamic contributions to orogenic elevation. She develops three-dimensional (3D) subsurface models on various scales by integrating geophysical and geological information.

Publications:

a) Journals:

Núñez Demarco, P., Masquelin, H., Loureiro, J., Prezzi, C., Sánchez Bettucci, L., 2019. Historia de la Geología Precámbrica de Uruguay: Unidades del Cinturón Dom Feliciano y su basamento. Revista Investigaciones (MIEM – DINAMIGE, Uruguay), 2(1): 36-57.

Prezzi, C., Orgeira, M. J., Coronato, M. A. J., Quiroga, D., Ponce, J. F., Núñez Demarco, P. A., Palermo, P., 2019.  Geophysical Methods Applied to Quaternary Studies in Glacial Environments: Río Valdez Outcrop, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Quaternary International, 525: 114 – 125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.07.022.

Ibarra, F., Liu, S., Meeßen, C., Prezzi, C., Bott, J., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Sobolev, S., Strecker, M., 2019. 3D data-derived lithospheric structure of the Central Andes and its implications for deformation: insights from gravity and geodynamic modeling. Tectonophysics, 766: 453-468.

Onorato, M. R., Prezzi, C., Orgeira, M. J., Perucca, L. P., Coronato, A., López, R., Magneres, I., 2019. Geophysical characterization of Udaeta Lake as a pull-apart basin associated to Quaternary tectonic activity along Magallanes-Fagnano Fault System. Quaternary International, 523: 67-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.06.025.

Prezzi, C., Vizán, H., Vázquez, S., Renda, E., Oriolo, S., Japas, M. S., 2018. Evolution of the Paleozoic Claromecó Basin (Argentina) and geodynamic implications for the southwestern margin of Gondwana: insights from isostatic, gravimetric and magnetometric models. Tectonophysics, 742-743: 120-136. doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2018.05.025.

Navarro, E., Prezzi, C., Orgeira, M. J., Cano, M., Astini, R., 2017. Craters in the Telsen area, Chubut Province, Argentina: Satellite imagery digital processing techniques applied to surficial geology mapping. SCG – Serie Correlación Geológica, Instituto Superior de Correlación Geológica (INSUGEO-CONICET), 33(1-2): 41-48.

Vizán, H., Prezzi, C., Geuna, S., Japas, M. S., Renda, E., Franzese, J., Van Zele, M.A., 2017. Paleotethys slab pull, self- lubricated weak lithospheric zones, poloidal and toroidal plate motions and Gondwana tectonics. Geosphere, 13(5): 1541-1554. doi:10.1130/GES01444.1.

Prezzi, C., Risso, C., Orgeira, M. J., Nullo, F., Sigismondi, M., Margonari, L., 2017. Subsurface architecture of Las Bombas Volcano circular structure (Southern Mendoza, Argentina) from geophysical studies. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 77: 247-260. 10.1016/j.jsames.2017.05.011.

Orgeira, M. J., Castro, L., Goldmann, G., Prezzi, C., Franzosi, C., Acevedo, D., Martínez, O., Ponce, F., Rabassa, J., 2017.  Extraterrestrial Microspherules from Bajada del Diablo, Chubut, Argentina. Geoscience Frontiers, 8(1): 137-149. doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2016.01.004.

Galli, C., Coira, B., Alonso, R., Iglesia Llanos, M. P., Prezzi, C., Mahlburg Kay, S., 2016. Tectonostratigraphic History of the Neogene Maimará Basin, Northwest Argentina.  Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 72: 137-158. doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2016.09.007.

Prezzi, C., Orgeira, M. J., Martínez, O., Acevedo, D., Ponce, F., Goldmann, G., Magneres, I., Rabassa, J., 2016. Circular Structures of Bajada del Diablo (Argentina): Geophysical signatures. Geophysical Journal International, 205: 876-899, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggw053.

Vizán, H., Prezzi, C., Japas, S., Van Zele, A., Geuna, S., Renda, E., 2015. La tracción de losa Neopaleozoica en el margen boreal del océano Paleotetis y la deformación del cordón plegado de Ventana. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 72(3): 355-377.

Prezzi, C., Silbergleit, V., 2015. Seismic Hazards along Ecuador, Perú and northern Chile (South America). Natural Hazards, 79(2): 1159-1175. doi 10.1007/s11069-015-1900-x.

Risso, C., Prezzi, C., Orgeira, M. J., Nullo, F., Margonari, L., Németh, K., 2015. Inverse Steptoes in Las Bombas Volcano, as an Evidence of an Explosive Volcanism in a Solidified Lava Flow Field. Southern Mendoza-Argentine. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 63: 360-374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2015.08.007.

Prezzi, C., Iglesia Llanos, M.P., Götze, H.-J., Schmidt, S., 2014. Thermal and geodynamic contributions to the elevation of the Altiplano-Puna plateau. Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, 237: 51-64. doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2014.10.002.

Prezzi, C.,  Götze, H.-J., Schmidt, S., 2014. Andean Foreland Evolution and Flexure in NW Argentina: Chaco-Paraná Basin. Tectonophysics, 628: 228-243.  doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.04.041.

Prezzi, C., Caffe, P., Iglesia Llanos, P., Orgeira, M. J., 2014. New Paleomagnetic data from Paleogene-Lower Miocene rocks of northern Argentine Puna: the Central Andean rotation pattern. Journal of Geodynamics, 78: 42-52. doi: 10.1016/j.jog.2014.04.007.

Iglesia Llanos, M. P., Prezzi, C., 2013. The role of true polar wander on the Jurassic paleoclimate. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 102:745–759. doi:10.1007/s00531-012-0818-8, 1-15.

González Guillot, M., Prezzi, C., Escayola, M., Acevedo, R., 2012. A comparative study of two rear-arc plutons and implications for the Fueguian Andes tectonic evolution: Mount Kranck pluton and Jeu-Jepén monzonite, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 38:71-88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2012.05.006.

Thorwart, M., Dzierma, Y., Rabbel, W., Siegmund, C., Comte, D., Bataille, K., Iglesia, P., Prezzi, C., 2012. Seismicity near the slip maximum of the 1960 Mw 9.5 Valdivia earthquake (Chile): Plate interface lock and reactivation of the subducted Valdivia fault zone. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, B06312, doi:10.1029/2011JB008914.

Acevedo, R., Rabassa, M., Ponce, J., Martínez, O., Orgeira, M., Prezzi, C., Corbella, H., González-Guillot, M., Rocca, M., Subías, I., Vásquez, C., 2012. The Bajada del Diablo astrobleme-strewn field, Argentine Patagonia: extending the exploration to surrounding areas. Geomorphology, 169-170: 151-164. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.04.020.

Prezzi, C.  Iglesia Llanos, M. P., 2012. The southern Central Andes vertical axis tectonic rotations: relations with the deformation pattern. Andean Geology, 39(2): 279-294.

Silbergleit, V., Prezzi, C., 2012. Statistics of major Chilean earthquakes recurrence. Natural Hazards, 62: 445-458. DOI 10.1007/s11069-012-0086-8.  

Prezzi, C., Orgeira, M., Acevedo, R., Ponce, J., Martinez, O., Rabassa, J., Corbella, H., Vásquez, C., González-Guillot, M., Subías, I., 2012. Geophysical characterization of two circular structures of Bajada del Diablo (Argentina): indication of impact origin. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 192-193: 21-34.

Prezzi, C., López, R., Vásquez, C., Marcomini, S., Fazzito, S. 2011. Caracterización geofísica de zonas de relleno a lo largo de la costa de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires: estudio piloto en Ciudad Universitaria. Geoacta, 36: 75-93.

Prezzi, C., Lince Klinger, F. 2010. Nuevas evidencias geofísicas de la existencia de una caldera cubierta en Laguna Pozuelos, Puna Norte. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 66 (1-2): 282-295.

Prezzi, C.,  Götze, H.-J. 2009. Estructura litosférica de los Andes Centrales a partir de un modelo gravimétrico 3D. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 65 (1): 81-96.

Prezzi, C, Götze, H.-J., Schmidt, S., 2009. 3D density model of the Central Andes. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 177: 217-234. doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2009.09.004.  

Prezzi, C., Uba, C., Götze, J.-H., 2009. Flexural isostasy in the Bolivian Andes: Chaco foreland basin development. Tectonophysics, 474: 526-543. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.04.037.

Prezzi, C., Götze, H.-J., 2006. 3D modeling of buried intrusives in Pan de Azúcar zone (northern Puna, Argentina) from ground magnetic data. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 22: 89-97.

Prezzi, C., Somoza, R., Mercader, R., 2005. Mineralogical changes during thermal demagnetization of natural continental sandstones. Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica,  49(2): 213-232.

Prezzi, C., Orgeira, M.J., Ostera, H., Vásquez, C.A., 2005. Ground magnetic survey of a municipal solid waste landfill: pilot study in Argentina. Environmental Geology, 47(7): 889-897. doi: 10.1007/s00254-004-1198-6.

Prezzi, C., Caffe, P., Somoza, R., 2004. New paleomagnetic data from the northern Puna and western Cordillera Oriental, Argentina: a new insight on the timing of rotational deformation. Journal of  Geodynamics, 38(2): 93-115.

Prezzi, C., 2002. Relevamiento magnetométrico terrestre de la zona de Pan de Azúcar, Puna Jujeña (22°30´S - 66°00´O). Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 57(1): 85-91.

Prezzi, C., Alonso, R., 2002. New Paleomagnetic data from the Northern Argentine Puna: Central Andes Rotation Pattern Reanalysed. Journal of Geophysical Research, 107 (B2): 10.1029/2001JB000225. 18 páginas.

Prezzi, C., 2001. Estudio paleomagnetico de rocas cenozoicas aflorantes en la Puna Austral. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 56(3): 293-303.

Prezzi, C., 1999. Paleomagnetismo de rocas terciarias de la Puna Jujeña (23° S 66°30'O): ausencia de rotaciones según ejes verticales. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 54: 407-419.

Prezzi, C., Vilas, J.F.A. 1998. New Evidence of clockwise vertical axis rotations south of the Arica elbow (Argentine Puna). Tectonophysics, 292: 85-100.

Prezzi, C., Vilas, J. F. A., Sinito, A.M. 1996. Estudio Paleomagnético de Rocas Sedimentarias Terciarias de la Puna Salteña: determinación de rotaciones horarias. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 51(3): 261-273.

b) Book Chapters:

Prezzi, C. Ibarra, F., 2017. Estructura cortical del Noroeste de Argentina en base a datos gravimétricos y magnetométricos. En C. Muruaga y P. Grosse (Eds.), Ciencias de la Tierra y Recursos Naturales del NOA, Relatorio del XX Congreso Geológico Argentino, Tucumán, Argentina, 7-11 de Agosto de 2017, págs. 54-69.

Prezzi, C, Götze, H.-J., Schmidt, S., 2011. The Central Andes lithospheric structure from 3D gravity modeling, en Salfity, J.A., and Marquillas, R.A., eds., Cenozoic geology of the Central Andes of Argentina: Salta, SCS Publisher, p. 395-410.

Prezzi, C, Götze, H.-J., Schmidt, S., 2011. The Altiplano-Puna elevation budget, en Salfity, J.A., and Marquillas, R.A., eds., Cenozoic geology of the Central Andes of Argentina: Salta, SCS Publisher, p. 383-394.

Prezzi, C., 2011. The southern Central Andes paleomagnetic data base revisited, en Salfity, J.A., and Marquillas, R.A., eds., Cenozoic geology of the Central Andes of Argentina: Salta, SCS Publisher, p. 371-381.

Prezzi, C., Vizán, H., Rapalini, A., 2001. Marco Paleogeográfico. En: ”El Sistema Triásico en Argentina” (Capítulo 12). Eds.: A. E. Artabe, E. M. Morel y A. B. Zamuner. Fundación Museo de La Plata “Francisco Pascasio Moreno”, La Plata, Argentina. ISBN 987-95358-1-2. Páginas: 255-267.  

Eduardo Rossello is Argentinean principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and holds a professorship in geology at the University of Buenos Aires. His research focuses on structural control of geoeconomic deposits, tectonics and sedimentation in Argentina.

Fernando Hongn

Jens Wickert is principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and holds a joint professorship in GNSS Remote Sensing, Navigation and Positioning at the Technische Universität Berlin together with GFZ. He is responsible for GNSS remote sensing research at GFZ and speaker of the GFZ share in the Helmholtz Research Programme Atmosphere and Climate. One of his main interests is to promote the usage of GNSS for interdisciplinary geophysical applications in Earth System Science. In “StRATEGy” he is involved with his expertise in regional and global GNSS based atmosphere sounding.

Personal profile GFZ Potsdam: here

Laura Giambiagi is principal investigator in the International Research Training Group “StRATEGy”. She is a senior researcher from CONICET and head of the Tectonic Group in the Centro Científico y Tecnológico CCT Mendoza. Her research focuses on the structural geology and tectonic evolution of the Andes. Her research aims to understand the mechanisms of interplay between deep and surface processes in the development of the Central Andes, over short (10¹ - 10³) to long (10⁵ - 10⁶) timescales.

Maria Mutti

My main areas of expertise are Structural Geology and Tectonics of
fold and thrust belts and related foreland basins. I use a
multidisciplinary approach, including analog modeling, geophysical
(e.g. seismic lines, oil well data, satellite gravity, aeromagnetics)
and geochronological data. 20 years working experience in the
Patagonian-Fuegian Andes and associate inland and offshore basins of
southern South America. I have also worked in most Argentinian basins,
and Subandean basins of Bolivia and Perú. I have experience in project
and HHRR management.

El Dr. Matías C. Ghiglione es Investigador Independiente del CONICET y
Profesor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires a cargo de la Cátedra de
Geología Estructural. Con una trayectoría de 20 años estudiando los
Andes de Argentina, Chile, Bolivia y Perú, es especialista en Geología
Estructural y Tectónica, en particular de orógenos activos, fajas
plegadas y corridas y cuencas de antepaís asociadas. Experiencia en
investigación académica, incluyendo mas de 50 publicaciones
internacionales, asistencias técnicas y servicios a la industria.
Experiencia en dirección de proyectos de cooperación internacional y
formación de recursos humanos.

Monica López de Luchi

Niels Hovius

Pablo J. Caffe is a principal investigator in the International Research Training Group “StRATEGy”. He is an independent researcher from CONICET and head of the Volcanology and Petrology group at INECOA (CONICET-UNJu), and Full Professor of Petrology in Jujuy University. His research focuses on the petrology of Andean volcanism and its relationship with tectonics and ore deposits. Currently, he is interested in the petrology and mineralogy of silicic magmatic rocks linked to different ore associations in the Puna plateau, as well as the role of magmatic-hydrothermal systems in Lithium mineralization in the Central Andes.​

Patricio Payrola

Ricardo Alonso

Roland Oberhänsli

Sarah A. Gleeson holds the Professor of Mineral Resources at the Freie Universität Berlin and leads the Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry section at GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. Sarah has broad research interests in mineral deposit genesis, hydrothermal fluid flow, and water-rock interaction. Recently, her research has been focused on Cu, Zn, and Au deposits in sedimentary basins, sedimentary geochemistry, diagenesis, and ore-forming processes.

Stella Moreiras

Stephan Sobolev is principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and holds a professorship in geodynamics at the University of Potsdam. He is head of the Geodynamic Modeling section at GFZ Potsdam. His expertise is in geodynamic, petrophysical, and geophysical modeling and the development of new numerical methods. His research approach is a very good example for how geoscience can work as an interdisciplinary synthesis.

Personal profile GFZ Potsdam: here

Oliver Korup studies the geomorphic footprints of natural hazards and disasters. He is currently quantifying how quickly mountain rivers recover from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Nepal Himalaya, Chilean Patagonia, and Japan. He uses data from terrestrial laser scanning, UAV monitoring, dendrogeomorphology and radiocarbon dating to learn more about the delayed response and recovery of river channels and hillslopes to landscape-scale disturbances.

Personal profile University of Potsdam: here

Ramón Arrowsmith, Ph.D. is "StRATEGy" guest professor and visiting the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Potsdam University for the 2016-2017 academic year on sabbatical leave from the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, USA. He has over 20 years experience studying the earthquake geology, paleoseismology, and geomorphology of fault zones and publishing about their history of activity and hazards with emphasis in California, Central Asia, and east Africa. He is Co-founder and Co-PI of the OpenTopography effort - a portal to the largest collection of freely available high resolution topography data (http://www.opentopography.org/). He has lead many short courses, workshops, and visioning activities emphasizing high resolution topographic data and tectonic geomorphology. He has a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Stanford University where he met "StRATEGy" speaker Manfred Strecker in the early 1990s. He has been a collaborator and occasional visitor of the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Potsdam University for about 20 years and spent prior sabbaticals visiting in 2001-2002 and 2010.

Taylor Schildgen is associated principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and holds a professorship in geomorphology at the University of Potsdam. She is working at the GFZ Potsdam in the geomorphology section. Her research interest is the topographic evolution of orogens, rates and processes of fluvial erosion, and understanding how landforms and landscapes evolve in diverse tectonic and climatic settings (e.g. Andes, NW Himalaya, East Africa).

Personal profile GFZ Potsdam: here
Personal profile Potsdam University: here

Raúl Becchio

Frank Krüger is principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and holds a professorship in geophysics (seismology). He applies network and array seismology methods to image structures in the Earth's crust and mantle and to retrieve locations and focal mechanisms and other parameters of the seismic source. Besides data from global permament stations he uses the instrument pool of the geophysics group for temporary deployments in different regions of the world, e.g. in NW Argentina.

Uwe Altenberger is principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and holds a professorship in structural petrology at the University of Potsdam. He applies a combination of field-based metamorphic petrology geochemistry, fabrics and resources. Major topics are deep crustal shear zones and deep crustal frictional melts as well as the regional geological evolution of “old” orogens. However, his current research is concentrated on the characterization and evolution of rare earth element and Li-deposits as well as Nb-Ta. Recently, he started with the study of rare earth element transport from rock to soil and plant (possible hyperaccumulators and exploration tools). The main localities of investigation are Scandinavia and South America. Furthermore, he works on the mineralogy of monuments (less destructive analytics).

Personal profile Potsdam University: here

Edward Sobel is principal investigator in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and Thermochronology Professor at the University of Potsdam. Next to mineral separation, he is responsible for running the thermochronology laboratories (incl. the fission-track lab and the helium extraction line for U-Th/He thermochronology). His research interest is constraining deformation and exhumation histories by using multiple thermochronometers combined with geologic, topographic and climatic data with the aim of understanding the underlying tectonic history and the interactions between tectonics and surface processes. In a larger sense, his research has focused on basin analysis, sedimentology, thermochronology, regional tectonics and near surface processes, primarily in the Central Andes and Central Asia.

Personal profile Potsdam University: here

Ayelén Lapiana is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group StRATEGy-Arg and a member of the lithosphere-asthenosphere dynamics section at CICTERRA (Research Center on Earth Sciences). She holds a degree (licenciatura) in Geology from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

Her primary research goal is to link the spatio-temporal distribution of sedimentation to the onset of intra-basinal deformation in the Northern Puna-Eastern Cordillera transition. This project is based on the combination of sedimentological investigations, stratigraphic architecture of clastic successions and thermochronological studies.

Christian Meeßen

Official website: https://orrelizabethn.wixsite.com/geosci/research-interests

Former member 2018-2019

Henry Wichura was the scientific coordinator of StRATEGy from 2015 to 2018.

Full bio at http://www.henrywichura.com/about_me/about_me.html

Official website: http://www.geo.uni-potsdam.de/member-details/show/743.html

Julieta Wul is a postdoctoral researcher in the International Research Training Group StRATEGy-Arg and a member of the IGEBA (Buenos Aires Institute of Basic, Applied and Environmental Geosciences).

She finished a PhD focused in the relation between a group of Ordovician LCT pegmatites and their source rock in the Sierra de San Luis. Now she is concentrating the studies in the characterization of the mineralizing processes on those pegmatites by applying isotopic, microthermometry and geochemical techniques. 

Louis Desanois

Marisa Repasch is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and a member of the geomorphology section at GFZ-Potsdam. She holds a M.Sc. degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the University of New Mexico. Her primary research goal is to understand how rivers transport, store, and distribute organic carbon in the landscape. She combines stable isotope chemistry of leaf wax biomarkers with cosmogenic nuclide analyses and grain-scale studies to better understand these natural fluvial processes.

Personal profile GFZ Potsdam: here

Martin Zeckra is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and holds a master degree in geophysics from the University of Potsdam. He is staff member in the Geophysics working group at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Potsdam. He interested in the seismic activity of the central Andean broken foreland and is working on recent earthquakes in this area. Furthermore, he worked on seismic signals of landslide events and automatic detection and classification algorithms.

Maryam Ramezani Ziarani

Ricardo Ruiz Monroy is PhD student in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and holds master degrees in Geosciences, which he studied at the National University of Colombia with specialization in organic geochemistry and vitrinite reflectance measurements. He is staff member in the Organic Geochemistry section at GFZ Potsdam. He interested in hydrocarbon potential assessment in the Chaco Paraná basin in Argentina.

Personal profile Potsdam University: here

Sara Figueroa Villegas is a PhD student in the international Research Training Group StRATEGy-Arg and holds a diploma degree (licenciatura) in geology obtained in the National University of Salta Argentina. She's in a cotutelle program of the CUAA-DAHZ with the National University of Tucumán, the University of Salta and the University of Potsdam.

She is staff member of the Neotectonics research group of the Institute of Bio and Geoscience (IBIGEO) in Salta, Argentina. She is interested in the tectonic processes from the last thousands of years in the upper crust as well as the ongoing development of the Central Andes.

Sebastian Zapata Henao is PhD student in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and holds a master degree in mineral resources from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He is staff member in the Geology working group at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Potsdam. His master thesis focused on the tectonic evolution and paleogeography of the northern Andes. Now, his research interest is the understanding of the central-andean evolution and the associated foreland basins using thermochronology data combined with sedimentology and basin analysis.

Personal profile Potsdam University: here

Sibiao Liu is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and a member of the geodynamic modeling section at GFZ-Potsdam. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Geophysics from the University of Alberta with specialization in geodynamic modeling, subduction dynamics and lithosphere deformation, and geophysics. His master thesis concentrated on the evolution of flat slab subduction with application to the Farallon plate subduction and Laramide orogeny in North America. He now is focusing on the evolution of the foreland basin deformation in the Central-Southern Andes by using high-resolution thermomechanical models of the orogeny-foreland system.

Mitchell D'Arcy is a post-doc in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and staff member in the geomorphology section at the GFZ Potsdam. Mitch is a British geologist from London (UK), who completed his Master´s in geology at Imperial College London before he finished a PhD studying the sensitivity of Californian catchment-alluvial fan systems to climate changes over the past 125 ka. He is working with Taylor Schildgen on the Sierra Aconquija in NW Argentina. He is focusing on the timing of past glaciation and the implications for source-to-sink sedimentation.

Personal profile GFZ Potsdam: here
Personal profile Potsdam University: here

Paleoseismology and neotectonics of the fragmented foreland in the southeastern end of the Santa Bárbara system, northwestern Argentina

Constanza Rodriguez Piceda is a Ph.D. student in the International Research Group ‘StRATEGy’. She studied in the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) where she obtained a diploma in Geology. She worked and did her thesis in the Instituto de Geofísica Daniel A. Valencio (INGEODAV), where her studies were focused on the paleogeographic of the position of Pampia Terrane (NW Argentina) during the Early Paleozoic, using paleomagnetic techniques. She is a staff member of the Basin Modelling Section (6.1) at GFZ Potsdam. The aim of her research is to develop a 3-D lithospheric-scale modelling of the Southern Central Andes based on gravimetric, seismic and thermal data, along with its variations on physical properties, such as density, temperature and strength.

 Emilio J. M. Criado-Sutti is a Ph.D. student in the International Research Training Group StRATEGy-Arg and holds a diploma degree (licenciatura) in physics from the University of Salta. He's in a cotutelle program of the CUAA-DAHZ with the National University of Tucumán, the University of Salta and the University of Potsdam

He is a staff member of the IBIGEO (CONICET-UNSa) institute. He interested in the seismic activity of the Lerma Valley and is working on recent earthquakes distribution in this area. His background is in applied mathematics, especially in non-local diffusion models in classical epidemiology.

Advisors: Frank Krüger, Carolina Montero-López

Jonathan Ledesma is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group StRATEGy and holds a diploma in Geology. He studied at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina and is currently working at CICTERRA (Research Center on Earth Sciences). His primary research goal is aimed at understanding the factors that favored and controlled the development of individual and / or restricted intermontane basins in the context of the fragmented Andean foreland of northwestern Argentina. The main studies needed to achieve this goal are based on stratigraphic arrangements of clastis successions, sedimentological analysis, and thermocronological studies.
 

Leonardo Elías is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group StRATEGy-Arg. He holds a diploma degree (licenciatura) in Geology from the National University of Salta. He's in a cotutelle program with the National University of Cordoba and the University of Potsdam

His primary research goal is to propose a model of the Pliocene-Quaternary tectonic evolution of the southern Lerma Valley in northwestern Argentina. He combines GIS analysis, tectonic geomorphology techniques, and the identification and characterization of sedimentological and structural markers of Pliocene and Quaternary deformation to better understand how the tectonic activity has evolved over the last 5 Ma.

Leonardo Escalante is a Ph.D. student in the International Research Training Group StRATEGy-Arg and holds a degree (licenciatura) in geology from the National University of Salta. He's in a cotutelle program of the CUAA-DAHZ with the National University of Tucumán, the University of Salta and the University of Potsdam.

He is a member of the Neotectonics working group at the IBIGEO-CONICET and Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Potsdam. He's interested in the Quaternary deformation evolution of the southern central Andes: Intermontane alluvial basin fill in the Calchaquí valley of the Eastern Cordillera.

Paula Vignoni is PhD student in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy” and holds a diploma in Geology, which she studied in the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. During her studies, she was part of a project focused on the study of lacustrine systems in Antarctica. As a result, she did her thesis in the Centro de Investigaciones de Ciencias de la Tierra (CICTERRA) on hydrogeochemical and sedimentological characterization of pristine lake systems in three different islands of the James Ross Archipelago. Now she is staff member of the Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution section at GFZ Potsdam. Her research interest is past climate and environmental reconstruction combining high resolution analysis on lake sediments in NW Argentina.

Rodolfo Germán Aranda Viana is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group StRATEGy-Arg and a staff member in the Geology working group at IBIGEO (Instituto de Bio y Geociencias del NOA). He's in a cotutelle program of the CUAA-DAHZ with the National University of Tucumán, the University of Salta and the University of Potsdam

He holds a diploma degree (licenciatura) in Geology from the University of Salta. His research focus is neotectonics and geomorphology of the Metán Basin and Candelaria Range in the Andes broken foreland, North-Western Argentina. This project involves a combination of field geology, geomorphologic, seismic interpretation and structural studies to characterize the recent deformation and the lasts stage evolution of the Andes broken foreland.  

Román Feal is a Ph.D. student in the International Research Group ‘StRATEGy’. He studied in the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) where he obtained a diploma in Geology. He worked and did his thesis in the “Laboratorio de Modelado Geológico” (LAMOGE), where his studies were focused on the sedimentological evolution and provenance analysis on the foreland Miocene deposits. He is a staff member at GFZ Potsdam, as member of the Basin Modelling in the StRATEGy group. The aim of his research is to relate the Southern Central Andes growth to sedimentation in the foreland and offshore basins, in a “Source to Sink” concept, to elucidate the interaction between the Andean uplift, erosion, sediment transport and deposition in the Argentinian offshore.

Valentina Cortassa is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group StRATEGy-Arg and holds a diploma degree (licenciatura) in Geology from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. She's in a cotutelle program with the University of Buenos Aires the University of Potsdam.

She studies the subsurface of the Chacopampean Andean foreland basin using mainly 2D seismic reflection lines and borehole information. For her research, she applies a combination of seismic interpretation, structural geology, sequence stratigraphy, and basin modelling.

Valentina's profile: https://www.conicet.gov.ar/new_scp/detalle.php?id=50153&datos_academicos=yes

Elisabeth Schönfeldt is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group „StRATGEy“ and holds a master degree in geology from the University of Potsdam. After studying for six months at the University of Buenos Aires in 2016 she decided to write her master thesis about automatic classification of debris flows in the Central Andes. Now her main focus lies on the mechanics and evolution of mega-landslides in the Andean foreland and the effects of glacial advances and withdrawals on these mass movements.

Enrico Ribacki is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group „StRATEGy“ and a staff member of the Mineralogy-Structural Petrology section at the University of Potsdam. He holds a M.Sc degree in Geosciences from the University of Potsdam. His master thesis focused on the native silver mineralization in the northern Kongsberg mining district, Norway. Now, his primary research goal is to investigate the rare earth element (REE) and Sn-Ta-Nb-Li mineralization in granitic Nb-Y-F pegmatites of the San Luis range in NW Argentina. He combines various microanalytical as well as geochemical methods to understand and quantify primary mineralization and secondary processes (e.g. influence of magma composition, fluid-rock-interactions, hydrothermal alteration systems).

Gregor Lauer-Dünkelberg is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and a staff member of the Geology working group at the Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam. He holds a M.Sc. degree in geology from the University of Potsdam, where he studied the great [M ≈ 8] Mongolian earthquakes of 1905, focusing on their paleoseismological record and associated recurrence intervals.

During his PhD project, he focuses on fault scarps and attempt the identification of regional deformation phenomena on the Andean Plateau (Puna), an area proposed to be seismically inactive, but densely covered with signs of active deformation. Studying fault scarps and morphotectonic markers of the area with paleoseismological and tectono-geomorphic techniques will bridge the gap between seismogenic deformation on shorter and longer time scales.

As such the results will help to decide, where shortening across the Andean orogen is accommodated and how the tectonic activity has evolved over time.

Julia Drewes is PhD student in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and holds master degrees in Environmental Science and Physical Geography, which she studied at the University of Leipzig with specialization in geophysics, climatology and natural risks, and geoinformatics. During her study, she worked as a student assistance at the Climate Office for Central Germany at the Centre of Environmental Research UFZ and on scientific issues influenced by climate change in the fields of biodiversity, phenology as well as agricultural drought events. The latter was in focus of her first master thesis. Her second master thesis concentrated on a geoelectrical monitoring concept for a CO₂ capture and storage site in Canada in cooperation with the German Research Centre GFZ. She is now staff member of the Geohazards working group at the University of Potsdam.

Julia Drewes is "StRATEGy" PhD speaker and in the PhD-Day organization committee at the University of Potsdam.

Personal profile Potsdam University: here

Malte Stoltnow is a Ph.D. student in the International Research Group StRATEGy. He holds a master degree in Geosciences from the TU Bergakademie Freiberg with specialization in Economic Geology. 

Magmatic-hydrothermal systems form a variety of ore deposits at different proximities to upper-crustal hydrous magma chambers. For his study, Malte investigates the fluid evolution from proximal to distal settings at the Pirquitas and Chinchillas Mines in NW Argentina (Puna Plateau) and the Sweet Home Mine, Colorado (USA).

Performing fluid inclusion analysis, Raman spectroscopy, noble gas isotopic compositions and LA-ICPMS measurements as well as the analysis of stable (H, O, S) and radiogenic (Pb, Sr) isotopic compositions, Malte aims to reconstruct the evolution and P-T-x properties of the ore-forming fluids in the respective ore deposits. 

Furthermore, numerical modelling of the transition from a porphyry to an epithermal environment, considering country rock permeability, fluid pressure distribution, fluid temperatures, and varying locations of the magmatic plume, is used to build a quantitative model for the formation of these types of epithermal deposits.

Melanie Lorenz is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group „StRATEGy“ and a member of the Mineralogy-Petrology section at the University of Potsdam. She holds a M.Sc degree in Geosciences from the University of Potsdam. Her primary research goal is to understand how rare earth minerals (REE) become enriched in the upper continental crust. She applies a combination of various microanalytical as well as geochemical methods to understand and quantify primary mineralization, secondary enrichment and metal transport processes (e.g. hydrothermal alteration, fluid-rock-interactions in brittle-ductile faults).

Personal profile University of Potsdam: here

Michael Pons is a Ph.D. student in the International Research Training Group “StRATEGy”, and a member of the geodynamic modelling section (2.5) at GFZ Potsdam. He holds one M.Sc. degree in earth sciences and tectonics from Orléans and Rennes. His first master thesis focused on the contributors of the topographic signal of the Deccan Traps and his second master thesis on the earthquakes impact on the gravity field. The aim of his research is to develop a thermomechanical 3-D numerical subduction model to investigate the interplay between variations in the strength of the South American upper-plate and in the slab roll back rate of the Nazca plate.

Michele Vallati is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group “StRATEGy” at the University of Potsdam, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Maria Mutti and Dr. Gerd Winterleitner. He holds a MSc’s degree in Geology from the University of Padova and his research focus is on quantitative sedimentology and 3D modelling of lacustrine carbonate facies from the Tres Cruces sub-basin in the Salta Basin (North-Western Argentina). This project involves substantial field-work activity and the integration of field-mapping and virtual outcrop modelling in order to create the framework for subsequent forward modelling.

Nikolaos Antonoglou is a Ph.D. student in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy”. He holds a diploma in Surveying Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a MSc in Geodesy and Geoinformation Science from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. During his studies, he worked in the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ-Potsdam), where he completed his Master Thesis. Moreover, Nikolaos has several years of professional experience as a surveyor, cadastre, and test automation engineer. Now he is a staff member of the Space Geodetic Techniques section at GFZ-Potsdam and his research interest is the climate monitoring using GNSS remote-sensing techniques.

Sophia Dosch is PhD student in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy” and member of the geomorphology section at GFZ Potsdam. She holds a M.Sc. degree in environmental science from the Technical University Braunschweig.

She is interested in how earth surface and climate interaction drive fluvial organic carbon transport and transformation. Her research focuses on where and how organic carbon is mobilized and transformed during its riverine transport.

She combines leaf wax biomarkers and geochemical, stable and radiogenic isotope-based approaches to understand the processes of riverine organic carbon transport and transformation across tectonic and climatic gradients.

Wera Schmidt is PhD student in the International Research Training Group “StRATEGy” and graduates in the research group “Sedimentology” at the University of Potsdam under supervision of Prof. Dr. Maria Mutti and Prof. Dr. Claudia Galli. Her research focus is on the intrinsic and extrinsic control factors of sediment deposition of the Yacoraite Formation in the Tres Cruces subbasin of the Salta basin in NW Argentina. Petrographic and geochemical analysis are used to identify environmental parameters and assess diagenetic overprint to understand the spatial architecture of the sedimentary facies.

Wera Schmidt is "StRATEGy" PhD speaker and in the PhD-Day organization committee at the University of Potsdam.

Personal profile University of Potsdam: here

Willemijn van Kooten is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group "StRATEGy" and a staff member in the Geology working group at the University of Potsdam. She holds a MSc’s degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Innsbruck. Her research focus is the structural and sedimentological history of the Lomas de Olmedo sub-basin in North-Western Argentina during rifting and subsequent reactivation of extensional structures. This project involves a combination of thermochronologic, stratigraphic, sedimentologic and structural studies to characterise the basin fill and constrain important events in the history of the Lomas de Olmedo sub-basin.

Federico Ibarra is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group StRATEGy and a staff member of the Institute for Basic, Applied and Environmental Geosciences of Buenos Aires (IGeBA, UBA-CONICET). He holds a diploma in Geology from the University of Buenos Aires, where he did his thesis focused on the deformation events in the Northern Patagonian Andes. He is currently in a cotutelle program with the universities of Potsdam and Buenos Aires.

He is currently working on large-scale modeling of the Central Andean lithosphere in the Altiplano-Puna plateau and adjacent forearc and foreland. The aim of his project is to develop a data-constrained 3D model of the region with the distribution of physical properties in the subsurface (e.g., density, temperature, maximum differential stress). The models will be compared with observations of deformation processes in order to better-understand the link between the physical state of the lithosphere and deformation.

Matías is a PhD student in the International Research Training Group StRATEGy-Arg and under a Cotutelle de thèse (binational doctorate) between University of Potsdam and Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). He holds a diploma degree (licenciatura) in Geology from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina where he studied the geomorphology and stratigraphy of an area in James Ross Island, Antarctica. 

Now he is focused in the Andean tectonic evolution between 30- 36°S applying structural geology techniques and numerical modelling to assess the role of upper plate pre-andean inherited features that conditioned the deformation. He is working actively in the southern part (35-36°S) linking the Malargüe fold-and-thrust belt evolution and oil-system development.