1992-1993 Post-Doc (Strasbourg, France)
Laboratoire de physique des matériaux, École et observatoire de physique du globe de Strasbourg (Prof. Yves Bernabé). Research project: Étude experimentale des propriétés mécaniques des grès synthétiques.

1993-1998 Junior Lecturer (Mainz, Germany)
Tectonophysics Group, Geoscience Institute, Mainz University (Prof. Cees Passchier)

Teaching at undergraduate and graduate level; field- and laboratory research projects in Structural Geology and Tectono- physics. Supervision of Diploma- and PhD-students. Setup of new Rock-Analogue Deformation Laboratory (design of various see-through deformation apparatuses). Organisation of geological excursions and mapping courses; supervision of MSc- and PhD-fieldwork and mapping projects in Greenland (Nagssugtoqidian), Spain (Central Pyrenees), France (Languedoc), Alps (Glarus), Italy (Alpi Apuane), Germany (Schiefergebirge), Belgium (Ardennes)

Nov-Dec 1996 Research affiliate (Yale, USA)
Geology & Geophysics Department, Yale University, New Haven (Prof. Mark Brandon)
Research project: SEM-study of deformation microstructures in naturally deformed sandstones.

1998-2004 Senior Lecturer (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Structural Geology & Tectonics Group, Geological Institute, ETH Zürich (Prof. Jean-Pierre Burg).

Teaching at undergraduate and graduate level; field- and laboratory research projects in Structural Geology and Tectonics. Supervision of Diploma- and PhD-students. Setup of high P-T Griggs-Type Solid Medium Deformation Apparatus in the rock deformation laboratory. Organisation of geological excursions and mapping courses; supervision of MSc- and PhD-fieldwork and mapping projects in Egypt (Sinai), Alps (Glarus), France (Montagne Noire), Italy (Alpi Apuane, Sardinia), Greece (Naxos), Cameroon (Yaoundé Nappe).

2000-present
External employee Swiss Geological Survey (Bern, Switzerland)
Geological mapping of topographical sheet Elm 1:25'000

2005-2009
Head of Department (Eawag Aquatic Research, ETH Domain, Dübendorf, Switzerland)
I am head of the Eawag-Empa Library, a department of Eawag. It is the library for ∼500 scientists and ∼200 PhD students from two ETH-Institutes: Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) and Empa (Swiss Federal Institute of Materials Science and Technology). I organised the merger of the former libraries of Eawag and Empa in the new Forum Chriesbach in 2006. I am responsibile for the library budget (∼2 Million SFr.), personnel management and recruitement (12 employees, libraries in Dübendorf, St. Gallen, and Kastanienbaum), collection development (Electronic resources, acquisition, negociation with publishers) ...

2009 Jan-Dec
Head of library (WSL, ETH Domain, Birmensdorf, Switzerland)
Ad-interim head of the scientific library of WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research )

2010-present
Full professor (GUtech, Muscat, Oman)
Professor of Structural Geology, Tectonics & Geomechanics at the German University of Technology in Muscat in Oman.

Last updated March 10, 2010