Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Michael Strasser
Last
updated: March 2011
Position: MARUM fellow and postdoctoral researcher
Centre for Marine
Environmental Sciences / DFG Cluster of Excellence "The Ocean in the Earth
System" ,
University of
Bremen, Germany
Date of birth: September 19, 1977
Nationality: Swiss
Address: MARUM-Centre for
Marine Environmental Sciences
University of Bremen
Leobener Str., D-28359
Bremen, Germany
phone: +49 421 218 65862 Fax: +49 421 218 65810
email: mstrasser@marum.de
web:
http://www.marum.de/Michael_Strasser.html
home: Hodenberger Str.
34, D-28355 Bremen, Tel: +49 421 258 5566
Previous
academic positions:
2007-2008 SNSF
(Swiss National Science Foundation) Fellowship for Prospective Researcher and
postdoctoral researcher at RCOM – Research Centre Ocean Margins, University of
Bremen, Germany.
2003-2007 Scientific assistant at the Department of
Earth Science, ETH Zurich
Eduction:
2003-2007 Ph.D. student at the Geological
Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Title of PhD thesis: Quantifying
Late Quaternary Natural Hazards in Swiss Lakes: Subaquatic
Landslides, Slope Stability Assessments, Paleoseismic
Reconstructions and Lake Outbursts
Supervisors:
Prof.
F.S. Anselmetti, ETH Zurich and Prof. D. Giardini, Swiss Seismological Survey
ETH Zurich.
1998-2003 Diploma in Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich
Diploma thesis: Erosion Processes and geomorphologic landscape evolution in arid
climatic environment; 'Lluta collapse', northern
Chile
Supervisors: Prof. F. Schlunegger,
ETH Zurich and Prof. Philip Allen, ETH Zürich
Training and research sojourns:
2009 Visiting
Scientist at SOEST (School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology) at
University of Hawaii, USA
2009 Leadership
Skill Course, GLOMAR, University of Bremen
2008 Conflict
Management Course, GLOMAR, University of Bremen
2004 Project
Management Course, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2001 Praktika at geo-consulting company Geotechnical Bureau Von
Moos, Zurich, Switzerland:
Awards:
2008 ETH Medal for outstanding PhD
thesis at ETH Zurich
2007 CHGEOL Award for the thesis in
earth science written at Swiss universities with the most practical relevance
in 2007
2005 Student presentation award, IAS
meeting in Muscat, Oman
2004 Studer
Award ETH Zurich for best diploma student in Earth Science in 2003
Research Grants:
2009 MARUM –
incentive fund “High confining stress direct-shear and uniaxial
compression apparatus – a key tool to investigate submarine landslides at
relevant sub-bottom depth” (36´600 EUR)
2009 European
Science Foundation (ESF) Short Visit Grant: Preparation
of site survey data for IODP dilling proposal
738-APL. 3 week short visit to Prof. G. Moore, University of Hawaii, USA. (1’750 EUR)
2007 Swiss
NSF: Postdoctoral research stipend (50’000 CHF, 12 month)
Teaching
Experience:
since 2008 Lecturer
within B.sc. course “Interdisciplinary Project on sediment cores”, Univ. Bremen,
Germany (6 hours in SS)
since 2008 Lecturer
within graduate-school course “Mass wasting along continental margins:
Comparing modern and ancient settings” Univ. Bremen, Germany (1 week
course)
2008 Lecturer
within Zertifikatslehrgang in angewandten
Erdwissenschaften “Urban Geology"; Shore
collapses and natural hazards from lacustrine
landslides”, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (15. September 2008)
2007 Organization of a 1-week outreach course for highschool students with field
work (on Lake Zurich) and laboratory analyse, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2003-2006 student assistant on several
geological field and mapping courses, ETH Zurich
2000-2003 undergraduate teaching assistant for
B.sc. course "Dynamic Earth" at ETH Zurich
Co-supervising /
mentoring students:
Ph.D. theses (co-supervision):
Fei Ai, Univ. Bremen,
Slope Stability along active and passive continental margins, ongoing;
Principal supervisor Prof. A. Kopf
Benedict Preu Univ. Bremen,
Along-slope and down-slope sediment transport processes at continental margins,
ongoing; Principal supervisor Prof. V. Spieß
Frank Strozyk Univ. Bremen,
Submarine landslides along the Northern Cretan Margin. Date of thesis
defense: 4.Sept. 2009; Principal supervisor Prof. K.Huhn
M.Sc. / Diploma
theses (co-supervision):
Anna Reusch, Univ. Bremen, Slope
Stability Analysis at the Nankai Trough accretionary prism – a geotechnical approach, ongoing, co-supervising together with
Prof. A. Kopf
Ina Schulze, Univ. Bremen, Hangrutschungen am Kontinentalrand
von der SE Küste Amerikas (Uruguay), ongoing,
co-supervising together with Dr. T. Schwenk
Gauvin Wiemer,
Univ. Bremen, Dynamic vs. Static slope stability along the Cretan Margin, 2011; co-supervising together with Prof.
A. Kopf
Jonas Zimmermann,
Univ. Zürich, Der Walensee: eine sedimentologische
Rekonstruktion seiner holozänen Ereignisgeschichte; 2007; Principal Supervisor Prof. F.S.
Anselmetti,
B.Sc. /
Semester theses (co-supervision):
Nils Monsees,
Univ. Bremen, X-CT Kernanalyse (Nankai-Akkretionskomplexes)
2010 co-supervising together with
Prof. A. Kopf
Philipp Meyer,
Univ. Bremen, Sedimentologische Analysen am MeBo-Kern GeoB 13860-01, offshore
Uruguay, 2010, co-supervising
together with Dr. T. Hanebuth
Johannes Hüsener,
Univ. Bremen, Submarine Slope Stability Assessment offshore Uruguay, 2010 co-supervising together with Dr. T.
Schwenk
Tobias Zwyer, ETH
Zürich, Die unterseeische Fortsetztung der Rutschung
von Weggis im Jahre 1795: Ein einmaliges Ereignis? 2006; Principal Supervisor Prof. F.S. Anselmetti
Felix Bussmann, ETH Zürich, Subaqueous slope
stability – a limit equilibrium approach. 2006
Principal Supervisor: Dr. F. Lemy,
Scholarly
Activities/Services:
Co-chair of UNESCO – International Geoscience
Program IGCP-585; 2010 - 2014: Earth´s continen-tal
Margins: assessing the geohazard from submarine
landslides (E-MARSHAL).
Scientific advisory board member of the upcoming 5th
International Symposium on Submarine Landslides and their Consequences, 24th
- 26th Oct 2011, Kyoto, Japan
Editorial board member for Springer book (Advances in Natural and
Technological Hazards Series): Submarine
mass movement and their consequences
Co-organizer of special symposia “IODP and ICDP records shed new light
on tectonic, climatic and environmental processes” at the 18th International
Sedimentological Congress, 26th Sept - 1st
Oct 2010, Mendoza, Argentina
Co-convener of session OS09 “Submarine Landslides:
Characterization, Processes and their Sedimentary Record" at 2010 AGU Fall
Meeting in San Francisco
Co-convener
of session NH3.11/SSP3.4 “Submarine Landslides: Mechanisms, Processes and their
Sedimentary Record” at EGU General Assembly 2011 in Vienna
Peer reviews of articles for the Journals: Biogiosciences,
Geology, G cubeb (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems)
; International Journal of Earth Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research –
Solid Earth, Marine Geophysical Researches, Springer “Advances in Natural and
Technological Hazard Research” Bookseries,
Society Memberships: European Geoscience Union
(EGU),
American Geophysical Union (AGU), Japan Geoscience
Union (JPGU), Geological Society of America (GSA), International Association of Sedimentology (IAS), Swiss Geological Society (SGS), Schweizer Geologenverband
(CHGEOL)
University Management
Committee Memberships:
Since 2008: Post-Doc representative at the MARUM
Project Leader assembly, Univ. of Bremen
2003-2006:Student representative of academic ‘Mittelbau’ (non-professor employees) at the Earth Science
Department (D-ERDW) conference at ETH Zurich
Active participation in scientific workshops:
2009: IODP
New Venture Exploring Scientific Targets (INVEST) meeting defining the
scientific research goals of a new ocean drilling program post 2013, Bremen,
Germany
2008: European Science
Foundation (ESF) workshop – Magellan Series “Ocean Drilling for seismic hazard
in European Geosystems” Lulea, Sweden
2006: ESF workshop – Magellan
Series “Scientific ocean drilling behind the assessment of geo-hazards from
submarine landslides”, Barcelona, Spain
Invited lectures at universities,
scholarly institutions and international conferences:
Strasser, M., 2010, Offshore Drilling for investigating oceanic geohazards, Department of Earth Science Seminar,
University of Geneva, Geneva, 1.3.2010
Strasser M., 2009, Oceanic Geohazards from Submarine
Landslides: From Lakes as model basins to Ocean margin settings. Colloquium
at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA, 28.4.09
Strasser
M.,2008, Towards quantifying processes and impacts of tectonic hazards through
modern Ocean Drilling: The key role of Sedimentology,
key note talk at International
Association of Sedimentoloy IAS – Meeting, Bochum, 2.9.2008
Strasser M. 2006, Shaking and Sliding: Subaqueous Slope Stability
Assessment and Paleo-earthquake Reconstructions
Revealed by Slope Failures in Swiss Lakes, USGS-Seminar,
Menlo Park, CA USA, 4.12.2006
Strasser M. 2003, ODP Leg 205, Sailing as student
trainee - ODP lecture Tour de Suisse: Presentations
at ETH Zurich, Uni Lausanne, Bern, Basel, Genf, Neuchatel, and Fribourg
Selected
public outreach activities:
Full list of more than 20 Swiss and German newspaper articles and radio
interviews related to my dissertation research in Swiss Lakes and IODP
involvements available upon request
2005: Project-coordinator
of exhibition booth 'Faszination Seeforschung'
during the ETH
150 year anniversary science exhibition 'Welten des Wissens', 2005, Zürich.
2008: Swiss TV, Einstein; 12.6.2008:
„Wie entstehen Tsunami?“ TV documentation about
NanTroSEIZE
expedition and post-cruise dynamic triaxial testing
at University
Bremen http://www.sf.tv/sf1/einstein/
Swiss Radio
DRS 2; 9.2.2008: Interview about IODP NanTroSEIZE
expedition.
http://www.drs.ch/www/de/drs/sendungen/wissenschaft-drs-2/
2009: Deutschlandfunk – Forschung
Aktuell; 27.08.2009: Radio interview (NanTroSEIZE
and earthquakes in Japan); http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/forschak/1024474/