Any views expressed within media held on this service are those of the contributors, should not be taken as approved or endorsed by the University, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the University in respect of any particular issue.
Skip to content

About me

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3104-8109
ResearcherID: M-5321-2016
Edinburgh Research Explorer
Email: florian.fusseis@ed.ac.uk

Appointments
  • since 10/2023: Professor of Applied Structural Geology, RWTH Aachen, Germany
  • 08/2022 to 09/2023: Reader in Structural Geology, School of Geosciences
  • 08/2017 to 07/2022: Senior Lecturer in Structural Geology
  • 01/2013 to 07/2017: Lecturer in Structural Geology, School of Geosciences, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • 10/2011 to 12/2012: Junior-Professor für endogene Geologie, Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
  • 07/2009 to 09/2011: Assistant Research Professor, Western Australian Geothermal Centre of Excellence, University of Western Australia.
  • 01/2007 to 06/2009: Research Fellow, School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia.
  • 09/2001 to 08/2006: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institute for Geosciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Education
  • 09/2001 to 12/2006: Doktor rer. nat., Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, awarded 'magna cum laude' in December 2006.
    Thesis ‘Strain localisation and shear zone formation at the brittle-viscous transition, Cap de Creus, Spain’.
  • 10/1995 to 06/2001: Diploma in Geology, University of Vienna, Austria, graduated with distinction in June 2001.
    Thesis 'The Eo-Alpine high-pressure rocks of the Schobergruppe, Austria'.
  • 07/1995: Matura, Bundesrealgymnasium Ried im Innkreis, Austria
Awards and External Recognition
  • Visiting Scientist Program Award, X-ray science division, Advanced Photon Source, USA (09/2017).
  • Visiting Professorship, Department of Geodynamics and Sedimentology, Universität Wien, (06/2017, 11/2022).
  • Programme Group Officer, EGU Tectonics and Structural Geology Division (2017-2021).
  • Scientific Committee Member, 3rd International Conference on Tomography of Materials and Structures, Lund (Sweden), 06/2017.
  • External PhD Examiner Tom Phillips, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
  • External PhD Examiner (‘Examinateur’) Julien Fauconnier, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris.
  • Invited review paper in Journal of Structural Geology (2014).
  • Invited participant in the Heriot-Watt-Crucible research leadership and development programme (2014).
Academic Leadership
    • Topical Editor Solid Earth (since 08/2017)
    • - “Advanced X-ray and Electron Imaging in Geosciences” workshop for the EXCITE consortium in Vienna, September 2022, organiser.
    • - “Teaching Structural Geology and Tectonics in the 21st century” workshop in Vienna, April 2019, organiser.
    • - Earth and Planetary Sciences Symposium, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, in February 2019 and 2020, organiser.
    • - Annual meeting of the Tectonic Studies Group (Geological Society of London) in Edinburgh, January 2015, organiser together with L Menegon.
    • - Earth and Planetary Sciences Seminar at the School of Geosciences 2014/15 until 2018/19, organiser.
    • - Workshop on ‘Image analysis in Earth Sciences’, Edinburgh, September 2013, organiser.
    • - Workshop on X-ray tomography in Geosciences in Perth, 2009, organiser.
    • Reviewer for Journal of Structural Geology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Tectonics, Journal of Precambrian Research, Microporous & Mesoporous Materials, Geology, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, Geological Society of London Spec. Publications, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Petroleum Geoscience, PLOS One, Nature Communications, Chemie der Erde, Tectonophysics.
    • Proposal reviewer for NERC, NSF, FWF, DFG and the Carnegie Trust.
    • Convener of sessions at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna 2011, 2018, 2019, 2020, co-convener 2009, 2010, 2012, 2016.
    • Co-Convenor of the session “Interporomechanics – an open session on pore-scale mechanics of Earth materials” at the 9th International Conference on Porous Media in Rotterdam, May 2017.
Research Supervision

I currently supervise 1 PostDoc (Drs J Gilgannon), 3 PhD students (1 as principal and 2 as co-supervisor) and 1 MSc/MEarthSci student. Past supervisions: 3 PostDocs (Drs S Marti, D Freitas and R Rizzo), 4 PhD students (I Edeh, E Yang, B Schwichtenberg, A Macente), 9+ MSc/MEarthSci students.

Invited Keynote Presentations, Seminars and Solicited Talks (since 2011)

2023

"Juicy shear zones", May 2023, Retirement colloquium for Prof M Handy, FU Berlin.

"A new lab-based tool for improving the management of geological reservoirs in geothermal heat extraction and CO2 storage", January 2023, Jacobs, Glasgow.

2022

"How x-rays and neutrons allow us to challenge established concepts in tectonics", January 2022, Edinburgh Geological Society.

2021

“The Norse arsenal - X-ray- and neutron-transparent cells to study fluid-rock interaction and rock deformation built in Edinburgh”, November 2021, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.

"Synkinematic transport properties of mylonitic shear zones", November 2021, Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge University.

"New insights from 4D x-ray imaging experiments on evaporites challenge established concepts in thin-skinned tectonics", June 2021, Tektonik- Strukturgeologie-Kristallingeologie seminar series of DGGV, Germany. See recording here.

"In-situ x-ray imaging of geological processes", July 2021, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) workshop “Engineering, Structural, and Geological Materials from Processing to Performance”, Cornell, USA.

2020

“Revisiting Heard & Rubey (1966) - new insights on dehydration-induced hydrofracturing in layered evaporites from in-situ 4D imaging experiment”, Interplay between mineral reactions and deformation workshop, September 2020, Heidelberg, Germany

“The Norse arsenal - X-ray- and neutron-transparent cells to study fluid-rock interaction and rock deformation built in Edinburgh”, June 2020, NSF Research Coordination Network “In Situ Studies of Rock Deformation”, Cornell, USA.

2019

“In-situ x-ray imaging of geological processes” China University of Geosciences Beijing, September 2019, Beijing, China
“Electrons, x-rays, fluids, rocks, tectonics and teaching”, Peking University, September 2019, Beijing, China
“The role of creep cavitation in deformation of the continental lithosphere”, Ecole Polytechnique, October 2019, Paris, France
“How an x-ray-boosted vista on rock deformation advances tectonics”, Heriot-Watt University, August 2019, Edinburgh, UK

2017

“How a dynamically evolving porosity controls fluid-rock interaction”, Österreichische Geologische Gesellschaft, June 2017, Vienna, Austria.

“The role of creep cavitation and ductile failure in mid-crustal deformation - a critical one in the formation of shear instabilities and the nucleation of deep slow slip events?”, June 2017, Department for Geodynamics and Sedimentology, University of Vienna

“The role of an evolving porosity in fluid-rock interaction - a synthesis of insights gained in six years of in-situ 4D microtomography experiments”, April 2017, EGU General Assembly Vienna, Austria

2016

“Dynamic Porosity explored in 4D”, PMPM and UK Interpore Joint Annual Meeting, January 2016, Edinburgh

“Time-resolved imaging of fluid-rock interaction”, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University

2015

“Still exciting, after all these years... Gypsum dehydration studied in time-resolved synchrotron x-ray microtomography studies”, Unité mixte CNRS/Saint-Gobain Surface du Verre et Interfaces, Paris

“Dynamic Porosity explored in 4D”, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University

2014

“Dynamic Porosity in Tectono-Metamorphic Settings”, Gordon Research Conference on “Evolving Rock Structure: From Grain-Scale to Planet-Scale”, August, 2014, Andover NH, USA

“Fluid migration in ductile shear zones”, April 2014, EGU General Assembly Vienna, Austria

“Time-resolved 3D imaging of fluid-rock interaction using Synchrotron-based x-ray microtomography”, CSEC, UoE

“Pore-scale 4D imaging and quantification of fluid flow and fluid-rock interaction in geological reservoir rocks”, OMV headquarters, Vienna

“Discrete characterisation of time-dependent transport properties at reservoir conditions using 4D Synchrotron tomography”, Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society

“Dynamic porosity in rocks investigated by 4D synchrotron x-ray microtomography”, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen

2013

Bern, Basel, Potsdam

2012

“The application of Synchrotron radiation based microtomography in (structural) geology”, April 2012, EGU General Assembly Vienna, Austria.

“Permeability and 3- Dimensional Melt Distribution in Partially Molten Rocks”, April 2012, EGU General Assembly Vienna, Austria.

css.php

Report this page

To report inappropriate content on this page, please use the form below. Upon receiving your report, we will be in touch as per the Take Down Policy of the service.

Please note that personal data collected through this form is used and stored for the purposes of processing this report and communication with you.

If you are unable to report a concern about content via this form please contact the Service Owner.

Please enter an email address you wish to be contacted on. Please describe the unacceptable content in sufficient detail to allow us to locate it, and why you consider it to be unacceptable.
By submitting this report, you accept that it is accurate and that fraudulent or nuisance complaints may result in action by the University.

  Cancel