Martin Mergili

Career

• 2009 Research and Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Applied Geology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna. Fields of research: High-mountain geomorphology and hazards, Geographic Information Sciences (GIS) and Remote Sensing, Modelling of mass movements. Teaching: Petrology, Geologic Field Training, GIS/Remote Sensing.
• 2008 - 2009 Leader of the research project "Debris Flows as Natural Hazards Along the Trans-Andean Corridor Mendoza - Valparaíso" at the University of Innsbruck, funded by the Tyrolean Science Funds (TWF)
• 2006 - 2007 Project collaborator at the Institute of International Mountain Research (IGF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck
• 2005 - 2008 Doctoral study Natural sciences at Univ. Innsbruck, Austria, Doctoral theses: "Integrated modelling of debris flows with Open Source GIS: Numerical simulations of triggering, mobilization, and runout of debris flows for selected study areas along the Trans-Andean road corridor Mendoza-Valparaiso"
• 2005 - 2006 Project collaborator at the alpS Centre for Natural Hazards Management, Innsbruck
• 2002 - 2003 Studies at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland: Arctic Studies Program
• 2000 - 2005 Diploma study Geography at Univ. Innsbruck, Austria, Diploma theses: "The Vegetation of Grootbos Nature Reserve (Western Cape, South Africa): GIS-based Mapping and Numerical Analysis"