Education

Ph.D. in Structural Geology and Tectonics (August 2005), Dissertation title (Download): Changing characteristics of deformation, sedimentation, and magmatism as a result of island arc-continent collision [University of Southern California, Dept of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, Advisor: Scott R. Paterson]

M.Sc. in Structural Geology (May 2000), Thesis title (Download): Structural analysis of the Swakane Terrane, North Cascades Core, Washington [San Jose State University, Geology Department, San Jose, CA, Advisor: Robert B. Miller]

Vordiplom (equivalent to B.Sc.) in Geology (February 1996), Geologisch-Palaeontologisches Institut, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany