Function and Responsibilities:

W2-Professor for Landscape Evolution and Climate Interactions

Professor, Institute for Geosciences, University of Potsdam

Co-convenor, GFZ Graduate Program

Research Interests:

I am interested in how climate and tectonic forcing influence landscape form, erosion rates, erosion processes, and sedimentation patterns. My group and I investigate this problem in mountainous source areas through a combination of modelling and empirical data on exhumation rates derived from thermochronology and cosmogenic nuclides. Farther downstream, we also approach this problem through empirical field studies on alluvial fans and fill terraces, and recently also through physical experiments and model development on the controls of gravel-bedded profiles.

Link to Google Scholar page

Career:

Since 2015: W2 Professor, Section 4.6 (Geomorphology), GFZ Potsdam 2013 - 2015: Emmy Noether Group leader, University of Potsdam, Germany 2011 - 2013: Post-doctoral researcher and lecturer, University of Potsdam, Germany 2009 - 2011: Alexander von Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellow 2008 - 2009: Post-doctoral researcher, DFG-Leibniz Center for Earth Surface and Climate Studies, University of Potsdam

Education:

2000: B.A. in Geosciences, Williams College, USA

Projects:

GyroSCoPe (ERC Consolidator grant, 2020 - 2024): Geomorphic and Sedimentary responses to Climate Periodicity. The overarching goal of the project is to better understand how periodic changes in climate have influenced the evolution of landscape and how that evolution may be best reconstructed from sedimentary deposits. 

ICEHouse (Emmy Noether grant, 2013 - 2017):  Impacts of Climate change on Erosion and Hillslope processes. 

StRATEGy (DFG grant, 2015 - 2020): SuRfAce processes, TEctonics and Georesources: The Andean forland basin of Argentina. 

Research Boards and Committees:

Editorial service

Awards:

2019  ERC Consolidator Grant (European Research Council)

2018  Nature INDEX "Rising Stars in Science"

2015  Helmholtz Association’s Initiative and Networking Fund

2012  Emmy Noether Excellence Grant of the DFG

2009  Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship