Matěj Peč joined the EAPS faculty in 2017. Peč holds a bachelor’s in geology (2006) and a master’s in structural geology (2008) from the Charles University, Czech Republic, in addition to a master’s earned as an ERASMUS scholar at the Université Montpellier II in France (2007).

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Hongyu’s & Matej’s paper on “Nanometric flow and the earthquake instability” was just published in Nature Communications. Our laboratory experiments reveal that extremely fine-grained crystals produced during fault movement can lead to earthquake instability, offering hints at understanding a potential universal earthquake nucleation ...

Matej Pec studies the mechanical and microstructural response of rocks to various driving forces associated with plate tectonic movements. To this end, he performs high-pressure, high-temperature experiments in the laboratory and compares the results to natural observations and theoretical models.

Matěj Peč has a B.Sc. in Geology and a M.Sc. in Structural Geology from the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. During his master studies, he spent a year at the Université …

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Pec, M., *Al Nasser, S., (2021) Formation of nanocrystalline and amorphous materials causes parallel brittle-viscous flow of crustal rocks: experiments on quartz - feldspar aggregates. 12. 11. An ultrasound probe array for high-pressure, high …

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