Research Interests:

• Rock deformation processes and the associated fluid-rock interactions
• Rock microstructures, especially associated with brittle faults and dendrite formation
• Stylolite origin and evolution; pressure-solution creep
• Image processing and data visualization in 2D and 3D

PhD Project:

Glock Health, Science and Research GmbH (Austria) funded project: UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)-assisted, (micro-)structural and petrological/geochemical investigation of fault-related deformation processes and the growth of 3D dendrites in clinoptilolite (at Nižný Hrabovec, Slovak Republic).

• High-resolution UAV mapping
• High-resolution microstructural investigations using Keyence digital microscopy and electron microscopy (e.g. SEM-SE and BSE, EDS, X-ray microtomography)
• Image processing via ImageJ, Scikit-image coding and Matlab programming

MSc Thesis (2018):

“Stylolites in the north part of the Ullapool Valley, NW Scotland” (Distinction; Supervisor: Florian Fusseis, University of Edinburgh, Scotland).

BSc Thesis (2016):

“Geological story of the Skiag Bridge, Inchnadamph, NW Scotland” (Honors; Supervisor: Florian Fusseis, University of Edinburgh, Scotland).