Michael Strasser is a Full Professor in Sedimentary Geology at the University of Innsbruck since October 2015.
Born in 1977 in Kilchberg, Switzerland, he studied Earth Science at ETH Zurich and also gained his PhD in 2008 from there. Following this, he received a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNFS) fellowship to support post-doctoral work at the Research Centre for Ocean Margins, Univ. Bremen, Germany, and worked as MARUM Post-Doc fellow there until 2011. From 2011 to 2015 he has been Assistant Professor for Sediment Dynamics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Michael Strasser conducts research on the quantitative characterization of dynamic sedimentary and tectonic processes and related geohazards both along ocean margins and in lacustrine settings. To address these themes, he combines geophysical, sedimentological, geotechnical and numerical-modeling techniques investigating subaquatic sediment deformation and failure processes, their structures and deposits, and how they are embedded in the stratigraphic context, as it relates to the magnitude and timing of geological forces impacting on the environment. Further, an important pillar of Strasser´s research is his involvement in the Ocean Drilling Program, where different methodologies and expertise are being combined in a cooperate effort to study the ocean subsurface and to reconstruct geological processes therein
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