2006-2010

Position after leaving my group: Post-Doc at University of Minesota, USA

Current Position: Researcher at Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum, Frankfurt, Germany

PhD thesis: “Tethyan evolution of the Black Sea region since the Paleozoic: a paleomagnetic approach”

Supervisors: Prof. Cor Langereis, Prof. Randell Stephenson, Dr. Douwe van Hinsbergen

Funding: Netherlands Council for Scientific Research (NWO)

Publications

1. Gülyüz, E.***, Kaymakcı, N., Meijers, M.J.M.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Lefebvre, C.**, Vissers, R.L.M., Hendriks, B.W.H., and Peynircıoğlu, A.A*. 2013, Late Eocene evolution of the Çiçekdağı Basin (central Turkey): syn-sedimentary compression during microcontinent-continent collision in central Anatolia, Tectonophysics 602, p. 286-299
2. Lefebvre, C.**, Meijers, M.J.M.**, Kaymakcı, N., Peynircıoğlu, A.A**, Langereis, C.G., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2013, Reconstructing the geometry of central Anatolia during the late Cretaceous: Large-scale Cenozoic rotations and deformation between the Pontides and Taurides, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 366, p. 83-98
3. Meijers, M.J.M.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Dekkers, M.J.,, Altıner, D., Kaymakcı, N., and Langereis, C.G., 2011, Pervasive Paleogene remagnetization of the central Taurides fold-and-thrust belt (southern Turkey) and implications for rotations in the Isparta Angle, Geophysical Journal International 184, p. 1090-1112
4. Dupont-Nivet, G., Lippert, P.C., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Meijers, M.J.M.**, and Kapp, P., 2010, Paleolatitude and age of the Indo-Asia collision: paleomagnetic constraints, Geophysical Journal International 182, p. 1189-1198
5. Meijers, M.J.M.**, Hamers, M.F.***, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., van der Meer, D.G.**, Kitchka, A., Langereis, C.G., and Stephenson, R.A., 2010, New late Paleozoic paleopoles from the Donbas Foldbelt (Ukraine): implications for the Pangea A vs. B controversy, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 297, p. 18-33
6. Meijers, M.J.M.**, Kaymakcı, N., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Langereis, C.G., Stephenson, R.A., and Hyppolite, J.-C., 2010, Late Cretaceous to Paleocene oroclinal bending in the Central Pontides (Turkey), Tectonics 29, TC4016, doi:10.1029/2009TC00262
7. Meijers, M.J.M.**, Langereis, C.G., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Kaymakcı, N., Stephenson, R.A., and Altıner, D., 2010, Jurassic-Cretaceous low paleolatitudes from the circum-Black Sea region (Crimea and Pontides) due to true polar wander, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 296, p. 210-226
8. Meijers, M.J.M.**, Vrouwe, B., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Kuiper, K.F., Wijbrans, J., Davies, G.R., Stephenson, R.A. Kaymakcı, N., Maţenco, L., and Saintot, A., 2010, Jurassic arc volcanism on Crimea (Ukraine): implications for the paleo-subduction zone configuration of the Black Sea region, Lithos 119, p. 312-426

Outreach

Fieldwork

1. Turkey 2006

MSc student supervision

1. Dr. Maartje Hamers