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Quaternary dating methods (especially cosmogenic nuclide exposure and OSL dating)
Active Tectonics (especially Neotectonics and Paleoseismology)
Metamorphic petrology

Academic Education
06/2008 - 11/2011	Doctoral student at the Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
10/2002 - 05/2008	Studies of Geology and Paleontology, Rheinisch Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Work Experience
since 04/2012	Postdoc at the Institut de Physique du Globe, Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, University of Strasbourg, France
07/2008 - 03/2012	Research Associate at the Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, WWU Münster

Repeated folding during late Holocene earthquakes on the Cal thrust fault near Mendoza city (Argentina) Salomon, E., Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F., Hampel, A. (2013) In: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 103 Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Optical dating of alluvial deposits at the orogenic front of the Andean Precordillera (Mendoza, Argentina). Schmidt, S., Tsukamoto, S., Salomon, E., Frechen, M. & Hetzel, R. (2012) In: Geochronometria, 39(1) Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
A note of caution on the use of boulders for exposure dating of depositional surfaces. Schmidt S., Hetzel R., Kuhlmann J., Mingorance F. & Ramos V.A. (2011) In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 302 Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
The exposed base of a collapsing wedge – the Nestos Shear Zone (Rhodope Metamorphic Province, Greece). Nagel T.J., Schmidt, S., Janák, M., Froitzheim, N., Jahn-Awe, S. & Georgiev, N. (2011) In: Tectonics, 30 Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Coseismic displacements and Holocene slip rates for two active thrust faults at the mountain front of the Andean Precordillera (~33°S). Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F., Ramos V.A. (2011) In: Tectonics, 30 Type of Publication: Research article (journal)

Duration: 01/05/2008 - 30/04/2011

Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme

Type of project: Individual project

Preis der Hildegard und Karl-Heinrich Heitfeld Stiftung 2012 in der Kategorie: Herausragende Dissertation
Awarded by: Hildegard und Karl-Heinrich Heitfeld Stiftung
Award given to: Bermingham, Katherine; Schmidt, Silke
Date of awarding: 15/11/2012
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction

Holocene rates of thrust faulting at the front of the Andean Precordillera (Mendoza, Argentina) revealed by geomorphologic, paleoseismologic and geochronologic…
Candidate: Silke Schmidt | Supervisors: Hetzel, Ralf
Period of time: 01/06/2008 - 10/11/2011
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster