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TS Tectonics and Structural Geology Division on Tectonics and Structural Geology

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Division on Tectonics and Structural Geology
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Division on Tectonics and Structural Geology

President: João C. Duarte (Emailts@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Paola Vannucchi (Email)
ECS Representative: Riccardo Lanari (Emailecs-ts@egu.eu)

The Division on Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS) investigates rock deformation at all scales with the aim to decipher its complex relationships with Earth dynamics. We use natural observations, including mapping, remote sensing and seismics, and experimental methods. The division is highly interdisciplinary, with strong ties with other EGU divisions including GD, EMRP, SM, SSP, GM, G, and GMPV.

Latest posts from the TS blog

Throwback Summer – retracing student steps at the Pic Saint-Loup, France

The region around the Pic Saint-Loup is a popular destination for many European universities to teach mapping field courses – and there is a reason for it, even besides the great landscape, good food and nice weather. Let’s take a tour to discover why! The Pic Saint-Loup itself is indeed so impressive that some former students return at later stages in life “dragging” along other geologists friends to give them a tour and reminisce one of their first geologic field …


TS Must-Read – Fossen and Cavalcante (2017): Shear zones – A review

Haakon Fossen and Geane Carolina G. Cavalcante published their seminal review on the topic of shear zones in 2017 in the journal Earth-Science Reviews. The work summarizes the scientific findings on the development and quantification of ductile shear zones sincefrom the the 1960s up to recently. It describes the fundamental aspects of the initiation and growth of shear zones across scales. First, Fossen and Cavalcante summarize the influence of simple shear and pure shear on shear zone development, including the …


Introducing the blog team 2025-2026

For many of you September means back to school, for us September means the return of the blog. Behind the scene this summer, the bright new editorial team prepared fresh blog posts to share with the community. We are very excited to welcome the new editors, happy to start their blog adventure. The 2025-2026 team is a group of early career scientists editors from diverse backgrounds, continents and experiences, all eager to write about new topics in Tectonics and Structural …


Queer Quarterly: What does queer visibility mean in academia?

Queer Quarterly is the blog series of the EGU pride group, a LGBTQIA+ team of geoscientists engaged to uphold and improve the rights of the community in the EGU organization. This week’s post is dedicated to allyship: how people outside of the community can support our efforts. The term LGBTQIA+ is the abbreviation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual. The additional “+” stands for all of the other identities not encompassed in the short acronym. An umbrella …

Recent awardees

Heidrun Kopp

Heidrun Kopp

  • 2025
  • Stephan Mueller Medal

The 2025 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Heidrun Kopp for innovative research and groundbreaking discoveries in convergent margin systems, large earthquake processes, active fault slip, magmatic arc systems and geohazards.


Renelle Dubosq

Renelle Dubosq

  • 2025
  • Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists

The 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Renelle Dubosq for pioneering nanogeology research, advancing our understanding of plastic deformation in minerals, using innovative 2D and 3D analytical techniques in tectonics and structural geology.


Yann Klinger

Yann Klinger

  • 2024
  • Stephan Mueller Medal

The 2024 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Yann Klinger for his exceptional interdisciplinary contribution to the fields of seismology and palaeo-seismology, in particular, for his groundbreaking development of space seismology.


Julia Schmitz

Julia Schmitz

  • 2024
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Julia Schmitz Fabric analyses of fine-grained glacier salt (Kuh-e-Namak, Dashti, southern Iran)


Patrick Bianchi

Patrick Bianchi

  • 2024
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Patrick Bianchi Exploring fault preparation and earthquake nucleation from the laboratory

Current issue of the EGU newsletter

In our August issue we find out more about the discovery and research of Sue the T-Rex, 25 years after the skeleton was found, CP Rajendran revisits the devastating 1950 Assam-Tibet earthquake and shares what impact it had and continues to have on the Himalayan region, Zsanett Gréta Papp breaks down the newly published "Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding" to discover tips for academic resistance and Lorne Farovitch, a deaf transdisciplinary biomedical researcher and multilingual signer, explains the impact of climate change on deaf communities to Simon Clark in this month's GeoTalk.

Also now is the time to nominate a candidate for EGU President and other Council roles, by 3 September, and don't forget to submit your EGU26 session proposals by 13:00 CEST 16 September. All this and much more, in this month's Loupe!

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