Funktion und Aufgaben:

Sektionsleiter, GFZ 

Professor, Universität Potsdam
Professor, Université Grenoble Alpes

Wissenschaftliche Interessen:

The quantitative modeling of complex Earth systems and their dynamical behavior, including crustal and lithospheric deformation, surface processes (erosion, sedimentation, and transport), thermal structure of the upper crust, fluid flow in the crust, subduction and mantle flow, rock deformation and scaled laboratory experiments. I have many years´ experience of collaboration with specialists in a wide range of fields, including structural geology, geomorphology (including fluvial, glacial geomorphology and soil dynamics), thermochronology, basin analysis, hydrology, seismography, metamorphic petrology, mantle flow (dynamic topography). Combining my knowledge of Earth sciences with my training in physics and mathematics, I develop and use sophisticated numerical models and methods to interpret the geological record and extract from it constraints on the physical processes at play in the Earth´s interior and near its surface.

Karriere:

2016 Gastprofessur, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of California, Berkeley

Werdegang / Ausbildung:

1983 Licence en Sciences Physiques, Université de Liege (Belgien) (Grande Distinction)

1988 PhD, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University (Kanada)

Wissenschaftliche Gremien:

Seit 2018: Vorstandsmitglied, Proceedings of the Royal Society A

Seit 2016: Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Rates des Pascal-Instituts

Seit 2013: Mitherausgeber, E-Surf

Seit 2012: Wissenschaftliche Redaktion, Terra Nova

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