Research Interests

• Numerical modeling of tectonic stress at scales ranging from lithospheric plates to engineering projects
• Stress prognosis at candidate sites for nuclear waste repositories  (SpannEnD 2.0 project)
• Production induced seismicity
• Contemporary kinematics and stress field in tectonically active regions
• Deterministic seismic hazard assessment

Publications

• Hergert, T., Haug, C., Henk, A., Nüchter, J.-A., 2022. Modelling production-induced dynamic rupture of intra-graben faults and related earthquakes in the North German Basin. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment. 100339, ISSN 2352-3808,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2022.100339.

• Li, X., Hergert, T., Henk, A., Zeng, Z., 2021. Contemporary background stress field in the eastern Tibetan Plateau: Insights from 3D geomechanical modeling. Tectonophysics, 822, 229177, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229177.

• Li, X., Hergert, T., Henk, A., Zeng, Z., 2021. Contemporary kinematics in the eastern Tibetan Plateau: Insights from 3D geomechanical modeling. Tectonophysics, 819, 229109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229109.

• Li, X., Hergert, T., Henk, A., Wang, D., Zeng, Z., 2019. Subsurface structure and spatial segmentation of the Longmen Shan fault zone at the eastern margin of Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from focal mechanism solutions and stress field inversion, Tectonophysics 757, 10-23, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.03.006.

• Ahlers, S., Hergert, T., Henk, A., 2019. Numerical Modelling of Salt-Related Stress Decoupling in Sedimentary Basins – Motivated by Observational Data from the North German Basin. Special issue on Stress Quantification in Sedimentary Basins, Geosciences, 9, 19, https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9010019.

• Tuitt, A., King, R.C., Hergert, T., Tingay, M.R.P. and Hillis, R., 2012. Modelling of sediment wedge movement along low-angle detachments using ABAQUS. In: D. Healy, R. Butler (eds.), Faulting, Fracturing and Igneous Intrusion in the Earth's Crust. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 367, 171-183, ISBN 978-1-86239-347-9, https://doi: 10.1144/SP367.12.
• Hergert, T., and Heidbach, O., 2006. New insights into the mechanism of postseismic stress relaxation exemplified by the 23 June 2001 M_w= 8.4 earthquake in southern Peru, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L02307, https://doi:10.1029/2005GL024858.