Active Staff
| Last Name | First Name | Room | Telephone | Function / Status | |
| Spiess, Prof. Dr. | Volkhard | GEO2-4560 | +49 421 218 65370 | Professor (Head) | |
| Friedeberg | Angela | GEO2-4560 | +49 421 218 65371 | Secretary | |
| Schwenk, Dr. | Tilmann | GEO2-4570 | +49 421 218 65375 | Senior Scientist | |
| Keil, Dr. | Hanno | GEO2-4460 | +49 421 218 65372 | Senior Technician | |
| Fekete, Dr. | Noémi | GEO2-4520 | +49 421 218 65377 | PostDoc | |
| Römer-Stange | Nikolas | GEO2-4590 | +49 421 218 65378 | PostDoc | |
| Albers | Aike Elias | GEO2-4540 | +49 421 218 65380 | Research Scientist | |
| Merl | Maximilian | GEO2-4580 | +49 421 218 65373 | PhD Student | |
| Baltz | Anna | GEO2-4520 | +49 421 218-65377 | PhD Student | |
| active PhD students | |||||
| Oguro | Aisgo | now at | Fraunhofer IWES | PhD Student | |
| see below for | former staff members | ||||
Guests / Stipends / Internships
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How to find us ...
We are working in the GEO-II building on the 4th floor at Klagenfurter Str. 2-4. You can access the building from the Boulevard level only.
Active Staff
Active Master Students
Spiess
- Nicolas Pena Munoz - Habitat mapping in the Arkona Basin around Jasmund Peninsula, Baltic Sea, using Sidescan Sonar and Sediment Echosounder data
Schwenk
- EmiliaAthanassiades - Swatch of No Ground Shelf Canyon
- Greta Feddersen - Active Lobe of the Bengal Fan
preparing
- Yukari Asakura - Deghosting
- Providence Enow - Diffraction Imaging in shallow North Sea sediments
@Fraunhofer IWES
- Indira Valeeva - Application of AI for seismic interpretation
preparing
- Yashwardan Pande - Geological-Geotechnical-Geophysical Model Building
- Ali Ghanavati - Wind Modeling
former PhD Students (23)
| Ogunleye | Opeyemi | 2020-2024 | Quantification of geotechnical properties from geologic reconstruction of depositional history and subsoil lithology – A knowledge-based interpretation and statistical modeling approach for wind farms in North and Baltic Seas |
| Römer-Stange | Nikolas | 2020-2024 | Near Surface Seismic Inversion: Quantitative Interpretation of the Physical Properties of Unconsolidated Sediments |
| Schulze | Nora | 2017-2021 | The Sedimentary and Tectonic Evolution of the Nam Co Basin, Tibetan Plateau, since the Middle Pleistocene – A Seismoacoustic Study on Lake Sediments |
| Bergmann | Fenna | 2015-2018 | The Bengal Fan on different temporal and spatial scales. Integrating seismoacoustic and IODP Expedition 354 data to examine internal and external controls on depositional processes |
| Haberkern | Julia | 2014-2017 | Contouritic depositional systems influenced by complex seafloor topography. Late Cenozoic seismoacoustic reconstructions from the Galicia and Angola Continental Margins |
| Özmaral | Asli | 2014-2017 | Climatically controlled sedimentary processes on continental shelves |
| Steinmann | Lena | 2013-2016 | Reconstruction of volcano-tectonic processes in interplay with sedimentary deposition in the Gulf of Naples (Italy) using a seismoacoustic dataset |
| Wenau | Stefan | 2010-2013 | Seismic and acoustic imaging of fluid seepage structures in different sedimentological and tectonic settings in the Lower Congo Basin |
| Toth | Zsuzsanna | 2010-2013 | Seismo-acoustic investigations of shallow free gas in the sediments of the Baltic Sea |
| Junhui | 2010-2013 | Seismoacoustic study of the shallow gas transport and reservoirs in the vicinity of seabed fluid seepage of the Black Sea | |
| Preu | Benedict | 2009-2012 | High-resolution seismo-acoustic studies of alongslope and downslope sediment transport processes shaping depositional patterns at continental margins |
| Palamenghi | Luisa | 2009-2012 | Tectonic and sea level control on the transport and depositional processes in a siliciclastic sedimentary basin. Insights from the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bengal Basin, Bangladesh |
| Ding | Feng | 2006-2009 | Near-surface Sediment Structures at Cold Seeps and their Physical Control on Seepage: A Geophysical and Geological Study in the Southern Gulf of Mexico and at the frontal Makran Accretionary Prism/Pakistan |
| Bartels | Thomas | 2005-2008 | Imaging of Cenozoic climatic events and bottom water activities at the northeastern flank of Walvis Ridge: A correlation of seismic data with borehole data measurements |
| Wagner-Friederichs | Michelle | 2004-2007 | Seafloor seepage in the Black Sea: Mud volcanoes, seeps and diapiric structures imaged by acoustic methods |
| Antobreh | Andrew | 2002-2005 | Channelised and open-slope processes of mass sediment transport, their morphological and seismic characterization from selected Atlantic high-productivity regions. |
| Fekete | Noemi | 2002-2005 | Dewatering through mud mounds on the continental fore-arc of Costa Rica (Kiel University) |
| Schwenk | Tilmann | 2001-2004 | The Bengal fan: architecture, morphology and depositional processes at different scales revealed from high-resolution seismic and hydroacoustic data |
| Salem | Mohamed | 2000-2003 | Geophysical investigations of submarine prolongations of alluvial fans on the western side of the Gulf of Aqaba-Red Sea |
| Keil | Hanno | 1998-2001 | Sedimentary Waves on the Namibian Continental Margin and in the Argentine Basin - Bottom Flow Reconstructions based on High-Resolution Echosounder Data |
| Zühlsdorff | Lars | 1996-1999 | High Resolution Multi-Frequency Seismic Surveys at the Eastern Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank and the Cascadia Margin - Evidence for Thermally and Tectonically Driven Fluid Upflow in Marine Sediments |
| Völker | David | 1994-1998 | Untersuchungen an strömungsbeeinlußten Sedimentationsmuster im Südozean. Interpretation sedimentechographischer Daten und numerische Modellierung |
| Rostek | Frauke | 1988-1991 | Physikalische Strukturen von Tieseesedimenten des Südatlantiks und ihre Erfassung in Echolotregistrierungen |
| Janke | Andre | n/a | |
| Lutter | Dirk | n/a | |
| Laser | Bernd | n/a | |
