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Curriculum Vitae

 

Since 03/06	Head of the Emmy-Noether Research Group for Numerical Modelling of Tectonics and Surface Processes
10/05-02/06	Postdoctoral research assistant, Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
05/03 - 09/05	Postdoctoral research assistant at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Universität Bern, Switzerland
03/03	Doctoral degree in Geophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
05/02 - 04/03	Research assistant / doctoral candidate at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (Section 3.1)
03/00 - 04/02	Doctoral candidate at the GEOMAR Research Center of Marine Geosciences, Kiel, Germany; visiting scientist at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
02/00	Diploma in Geophysics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
02/99 - 02/00	Diploma thesis at GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Sciences, Kiel
10/94 - 02/00	Study of Geophysics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel

Honours

09/08               Hans-Cloos-Award of the GV (Geologische Vereinigung)
                       http://www.g-v.de/content/view/438/87/
 
03/05               Annette-Barthelt-Award for Marine Research (Annette-Barthelt-Foundation, Kiel)
                       http://www.annette-barthelt-stiftung.de
 
11/02               Bernd-Rendel-Award of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Publications

Hampel, A., R. Hetzel, G. Maniatis, T. Karow, Slip rate variations on faults during glacial loading and postglacial unloading: Implications for the viscosity structure of the lithosphere. Journal of  Geophysical Research, accepted June 2009.
 
Maniatis, G., D. Kurfeß, A. Hampel, O. Heidbach, Slip acceleration on normal faults due to erosion and sedimentation - results from a new three-dimensional numerical model coupling tectonics and landscape evolution, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 284, 570-582, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.024
 
Hampel, A., T. Karow, G. Maniatis, R. Hetzel, Slip rate variations on faults during glacial loading and postglacial unloading: Implications for the viscosity structure of the lithosphere. Accepted for publication in the Journal of the Geological Society London (Special section on Neotectonics,Seismicity and Stress in Glaciated Regions) as of 20th April 2009. PDF
 
Hampel, A., R. Hetzel, Slip reversals on active normal faults related to the inflation and deflation of magma chambers: Numerical modeling with application to the Yellowstone-Teton region, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L07301, doi:10.1029/2008GL033226, 2008. PDF
 
Kukowski, N., A. Hampel, S. Hoth, J. Bialas. Morphotectonic and morphometric analysis of the Nazca plate and the adjacent offshore Peruvian continental slope - implications for submarine landscape evolution. Marine Geology, 254, 107-120, 2008. Access to article.
 
Maniatis, G., A. Hampel, Along-strike variations of the slip direction on normal faults: Insights from three-dimensional finite-element models. Journal of Structural Geology, 30, 21-28, 2008. PDF
 
Turpeinen, H., A. Hampel, T. Karow, G. Maniatis, Effect of ice sheet growth and melting on the slip evolution of thrust faults, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 269, 1-2,230-241, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.02.017, 2008. Access to article
 
Ustaszewski, M., A. Hampel, O.A. Pfiffner, Composite faults in the Swiss Alps formed by the interplay of tectonics, gravitation and postglacial rebound: an integrated field and modelling study. Swiss Journal of Geosciences (former Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae), 101, 223-235, 2008. PDF Images of fault scarps
 
Hampel, A., R. Hetzel, A.L. Densmore, Postglacial slip rate increase on the Teton normal fault, northern Basin and Range Province, caused by melting of the Yellowstone ice cap and deglaciation of the Teton Range? Geology, 35, 12, 1107-1110, 2007. PDF  -> For images of Teton Range and fault Teton please see homepage of the Emmy-Noether group
 
Hampel, A., and R. Hetzel, Response of normal faults to glacial-interglacial fluctuations of ice and water masses on Earth's surface, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, B06406, doi:10.1029/2005JB004124, 2006. PDF
 
Hampel, A., and A. Pfiffner, Relative importance of trenchward upper plate motion and friction along the plate interface for the topographic evolution of mountain belts, in: S. J. H. Buiter, G. Schreurs (eds.) Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Crustal-Scale Processes, Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 253, 105-115, 2006. PDF (This is an electronic version of the article. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by The Geological Society of London.)
 
Hetzel, R., A. Hampel, Slip rate variations on normal faults during glacial-interglacial changes in surface loads, Nature, 435, 81-84, 2005. PDF
 -> For images of Wasatch fault and Lake Bonneville shorelines please see homepage of the Emmy-Noether group
 
Clift, P.D., I. Pecher, N. Kukowski, A. Hampel, Reply to comment by R. Hesse "Tectonic erosion of the Peruvian Forearc, Lima Basin, by subduction and Nazca Ridge collision", Tectonics , 24, TC2005, doi:10.1029/2005TC001791, 2005.
 
Hampel, A., J. Adam, and N. Kukowski, Response of the tectonically erosive South Peruvian forearc to subduction of the NazcaRidge: analysis of 3D analogue experiments, Tectonics , 23, 5, TC5003, doi:10.1029/2003TC001585, 2004. PDF
 
Hampel, A., N. Kukowski, J. Bialas, C. Huebscher, R. Heinbockel, Ridge subduction at an erosive margin - the collision zone of the Nazca Ridge in southern Peru, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, B02101, doi:10.1029/2003JB002593, 2004. PDF
 
Clift, P.D., I. Pecher, N. Kukowski, A. Hampel, Tectonic erosion of the Peruvian Forearc, Lima Basin, by subduction and Nazca Ridge collision, Tectonics, 22 (3), 1023, doi:10.1029/2002TC001386, 2003. PDF
 
Hampel, A., The migration history of the Nazca Ridge along the Peruvian active margin: a re-evaluation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 203, 2, 665-679, 2002. PDF

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Invited publications

Hetzel, R., and A. Hampel, Long-Term Rates of Faulting Derived from Cosmogenic Nuclides and Short-Term Variations  Caused by Glacial-Interglacial Volume Changes of Glaciers and Lakes, International Journal of Modern Physics B, 20, 3, 261-276, 2006. PDF
 
Hampel, A., Die Bedeutung der Philosophie Schopenhauers im Lichte der modernen Gehirnforschung, Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch, 85, 231-251, 2004. Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft Frankfurt/Main

Theses

Hampel, A., Subduction of the Nazca Ridge at the Peruvian margin: Insights from geophysical data, analogue and numerical modelling, Doctoral thesis, Free University Berlin , 2003.
 
Hampel, A., Seismic processing and quantification of fault zones in the Cascadia subduction zone, Diploma thesis, GEOMAR Kiel, 2000.

Selected conference contributions

Hampel, A., R. Hetzel, Slip reversals on active normal faults related to the inflation and deflation of magma chambers, invited talk, Geo2008, Aachen, 2008.
 
Hampel, A., R. Hetzel, H. Turpeinen, T. Karow, G. Maniatis, A.L. Densmore, Slip-rate variations on active faults caused by glacial-interglacial changes in ice and water volumes on Earth's surface, invited talk, 33rd IGC Oslo, 2008.
 
Hampel, A., R. Hetzel, A.L. Densmore, Postglacial slip rate increase on the Teton normal fault, northern Basin and Range Province, caused by melting of the Yellowstone ice cap and deglaciation of the Teton Range? EGU Vienna, 2008.
 
Turpeinen, H., A. Hampel, T. Karow, G. Maniatis, Effect of ice sheet growth and melting on the slip evolution of thrust faults. EGU Vienna, 2008.
 
Hampel, A., R. Hetzel, A.L. Densmore, Postglacial slip rate increase on the Teton normal fault, northern Basin and Range Province, caused by melting of the Yellowstone ice cap and deglaciation of the Teton Range? AGU San Francisco, 2007.
   
Hampel, A., Modelling the postglacial rebound of the European Alps: Elastic-plate approach versus a rheologically layered lithosphere, invited talk, GEOQUS Potsdam, 2008.

Hampel, A., R. Hetzel, Response of Active Faults to Glacial-Interglacial Changes in Surface Loads, solicited talk, EGU Vienna, 2007.
 
Hampel, A., R. Hetzel, Response of normal faults to glacial-interglacial fluctuations of ice and water masses on Earth's surface, EGU Vienna 2006.
 
Hetzel, R., A. Hampel, Late Pleistocene Regression of Lake Bonneville as Cause for the Postglacial Slip Rate Increase on the Wasatch Normal Fault, Utah, EGU 2006 Vienna.
 
Hampel, A., R. Hetzel, Slip rate variations on normal faults during glacial-interglacial changes in surface loads, AGU Fall Meeting, 2005.
 
Hampel, A., A. Pfiffner, Relative Importance of Trenchward Upper Plate Motion and Friction along the Plate Interface for the Topographic Evolution of Subduction-Related Mountain Belts. AGU Fall Meeting, 2005.
 
Hampel, A., A. Pfiffner, Relative Importance of Trenchward Upper Plate Motion and Friction along the Plate Interface for the Topographic Evolution of Subduction-Related Mountain Belts. Conference on Deformation mechanisms, Rheology, and Tectonics (DRT), Zurich, 2005.
 
 Hampel, A., A. Pfiffner, Relative Importance of Trenchward Upper Plate Motion and Friction along the Plate Interface for the Topographic Evolution of Subduction-Related Mountain Belts. EGU General Assemby, Vienna, 2005.
 
Hampel, A. A. Pfiffner, Gebirgsbildungsmodelle: Was unterscheidet die Anden von den Alpen? Eingeladener Vortrag auf der 16. deutschsprachigen ABAQUS-Benutzerkonferenz, Koenigswinter/Bonn, 2004.
 
Hampel, A., A. Pfiffner, Finite-Element models of subduction and mountain building processes: concepts and preliminary results. GeoMod 2004 International Conference, Extended Abstract in: Bollettino di Geofisica, 45, 91-93, 2004.
 
Hampel, A., Assessing geodynamic problems by integrating geophysical data, geological information, analogous and numerical modeling: an example from the Peruvian active margin. Invited poster presentation at the First DFG Research Conference, Washington, D.C., 2004.

Hampel, A., N. Kukowski, J. Adam,  The subduction of the Nazca Ridge at the Peruvian active margin: Insights into the mass transfer regime from geophysical data and a PIV monitored 3D sandbox experiment, EGS, EGU, and AGU joint assembly, Abstract EAE03-A-05866, 2003.

Hampel, A., N. Kukowski, J. Bialas, U. Barckhausen, The obliquely subducting Nazca Ridge at the Peruvian active margin: the present collision zone and a re-evaluation of its migration history, 5th Intern. Sympos. Andean Geodyn., 291-293, 2002.
 
Kukowski, N., A. Hampel, J. Bialas, C. Huebscher, U. Barckhausen, Long-term and short-term tectonic erosion at the Peruvian active margin between 9°S and 15°S: evidence from bathymetry data and 3D sandbox analogue modeling, 5th Intern. Sympos. Andean Geodyn., 359-361, 2002.
 
Hampel, A., N. Kukowski, J. Bialas, U. Barckhausen, Effects of the oblique subduction of the Nazca Ridge on the Peruvian convergent margin: insights from bathymetric and wide-angle seismic data, Eos Trans. AGU, 82 (47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T31A-0816, 2001.
 
Hampel, A., J. Bialas, N. Kukowski and the GEOPECO working group, Interactions of the Nazca Ridge and the Peruvian convergent margin: insights from bathymetric and refraction seismic data, MARGINS Meet. Abstr., Schriftenreihe Deutsch. Geolog. Gesell., 14, 80, 2001.
 
Kukowski, N., A. Hampel, C. Huebscher, J. Bialas, U. Barckhausen, Tectonic erosion at the Peruvian margin: Evidence from new swath bathymetry and 3D sandbox analogue modeling, MARGINS Meet. Abstr., Schriftenreihe Deutsch. Geolog. Gesell., 14, 118, 2001.
 
Hampel, A., J. Bialas, N. Kukowski, and the GEOPECO Working Group, Bathymetric and Refraction Seismic Data of the Nazca Ridge: First Results of the GEOPECO Cruise, Eos Trans. AGU, 81 (48), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T22A-29, 2000.

Research interests

• Response of active faults to natural and human-induced changes in loads on Earth's surface
  
  -> For more information, PDFs of publications and pictures please see homepage of the Emmy-Noether group

• Mechanics of faulting
   
   -> Images (click to enlarge)


• Subduction of aseismic ridges - Subduction of the Nazca Ridge at the Peruvian margin (GEOPECO Project)
  -> Plate reconstructions, geophysical data and 3D analogue modelling

• Subduction and mountain building processes - Swiss Alps, Andes
  -> Numerical modelling on the role of friction and upper plate motion for the topographic evolution of convergent margins
 

Methods

• Numerical modelling (using the Finite-Element technique)
  Finite-element software ABAQUS - Geoscientific ABAQUS user group GEOQUS (Ruhr-University, Bochum)

• 3D sandbox modelling (using Particle Imaging Velocimetry monitoring) - Geodynamiklabor GFZ Potsdam

• Marine geophysics (bathymetry, wide-angle and reflection seismics) - GEOMAR Research Center