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Curriculum Vitae of
Stefan Martin Schmid


Personal details

  • Born: 15.4.1943

  • Civilian status: married, 2 children

  • Citizenship: Schübelbach, Switzerland

 

Education

  • pre-university: 1959-1963 at Lehrerseminar Wettingen

  • university diploma: 1968 in Geology at University Zürich

  • PhD: 1971 at University Zürich under the supervision of Prof. R. Trümpy

 

Scientific career

  • 1971-1973: Postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zürich (with Prof. K.J.Hsü)

  • 1971-1972: 9-month visit at Imperial College London (with Prof. J. Ramsay and Dr. E.H. Rutter)

  • 1974-1976: Postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University Canberra (with Prof. M.S. Paterson)

  • 1976-1977: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie Frankfurt (with Prof. H. Berckhemer)

  • 1977-1989: Oberassistent, since 1982 Privatdozent  and Titularprofessor at Geologisches Institut ETH Zürich (with Prof. J. Ramsay)

  • 1989-2008: chair of Geology (Ordinariat) and chairman of Geologisch- Paläontologisches Institut at University Basel

  • 1998-1999: Dean of the Faculty of Narural Sciences University Basel

  • 2001-2002: Head of the Department of Earth Sciences University Basel

  • 2008: Retirement from Chair of Geology (Ordinariat) at University Basel

  • 2008-2010: Guest professor at FU Berlin (Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis)

  • since 2010: Emeritus at Institut für Geophysik ETH Zürich

 

Awards and honours

  • 1971: "Auszeichnung" for the PhD thesis by the University Zürich

  • 1980: "Landys & Gyr Förderungspreis" in Earth Sciences

  • 1987: Nomination as "Titularprofessor" at ETH Zürich

  • 1988: "Best paper award" for 1988 by the Division of Structural Geology and Tectonics of the Geological Society of America

  • 1989: "Harry H. Hess Senior Visiting Fellow" at Princeton University

  • 1997: Nomination as "Fellow" of the Geological Society of America

  • 2007: Steinmann Medal of the Geologische Vereinigung

  • 2008: Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

  • 2009: Stephan Mueller Medal of the Division on Solid Earth Geophysics of the European Geosciences Union

  • 2011: Leopold von Buch Medal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften

 

Main scientific interests and achievements

  • Structural Geology and Tectonics

  • Experimental Rock Deformation and Microfabrics

  • Alpine Geology and comparative studies in other orogens

 

Most important activities in applied science

  • 1990-2000: Member of the FKGA (Fachkommission für die Geologie der Alpentransversalen), a commission evaluating railway tunneling in the Swiss Alps on behalf of the Swiss Ministry of Transport.

  • 2001-2004: Expert on Seismic Source Characterization on behalf of NAGRA in the framework of the project PEGASOS (a new Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for the Swiss Nuclear Power Plant operators).

 

Memberships

  • American Geophysical Union

  • European Geosciences Union

  • Geological Society of America (fellow)

  • Geologische Vereinigung

  • Schweizerische Geologische Gesellschaft (former president)

  • Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Gesellschaft

  • Terra Nova Associate Editor