Funktion und Aufgaben:

Wissenschaftliche Interessen:

• Geomorphologie
• Tektonik
  
• Kosmogene Nuklide
• Glaziologie
• Fernerkundung
  

Karriere:

• Seit 04/2022 Professor für Kosmogene Nuklide, GFZ Potsdam und Freie Universität Berlin
• 2014-2022 Juniorprofessor für Kosmogene Nuklide, GFZ Potsdam und Freie Universität Berlin
  
• 2012-2014 Postdoc, California Institute of Technology, USA (Alexander von Humboldt Stipendiat)
  
• 2010-2012 Postdoc, Universität Potsdam

Werdegang / Ausbildung:

• 2010 Promotion in Geologie, Universität Potsdam
• 2005 Diplom in Geographie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Projekte:

• TopoToolbox 3 – improving the quality and reuse of a research software for terrain analysis (since 2024; Co-PI; funded by DFG: SCHE 1676/7-1)
• Dynamics of erosion and vegetation in the Western Mediterranean Region (since 2022; Co-PI; funded by Freie Universität Berlin)
• Glacial and erosional contributions to Late Quaternary uplift of the European Alps (since 2021; funded by DFG: SCHE 1676/6-1)
  

Abgeschlossen:

• Biota, fractures, thresholds: Emergent self-organization in landscape evolution? (2019-2022; funded by DFG: SCHE 1676/4-2)
  
• Climate sensitivity of glacial landscape dynamics (COLD) (2018-2023; funded by ERC Starting Grant)
• Tracing the variability of Himalayan paleo-erosion rates during the Pliocene-Pleistocene climatic transitions (2017-2019; funded by Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation postdoc scholarship to Dr. Sanjay Kumar Mandal)
• Testing biotic controls on erosion and sediment transport in the Chilean coastal cordillera with cosmogenic ¹⁰Be-derived erosion rates and a shear stress-based river incision model (2016-2019; funded by DFG: SCHE 1676/4-1)
• Quantifying the response of rapidly eroding landscapes to climate change with cosmogenic nuclides (2016-2019; funded by DFG: SCHE 1676/3-1)

Externe Seite: https://sites.google.com/site/scherlerdirk/