Funktion und Aufgaben:

Senior scientist Section 4.6 - Geomorphology

Professor, Institute for Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Potsdam

Wissenschaftliche Interessen:

• Erosion processes and fluxes

• Natural hazards: process cascades and early warning

• Landscape evolution

• Coupling between physical and chemical processes at Earth’s surface

• Geophysical constraints on geomorphic processes, and vice versa

• Teleconnections within Earth’s surface system

• Earth surface processes in the Earth's system
  

• Socio-economic costs of Earth surface dynamics

Karriere:

• 2012  Professor University of Potsdam, Germany
  

              Head of Section 4.6 - Geomorphology  (2012-2020)

              Speaker Topic Earth Surface and Climate Interactions (PoF 3)  (2017-2020)
  

              Director Topic Landscapes of the Future (PoF 4)  (2020)
  

              Acting Scientific Executive Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors (Nov. 2020 - May 2022)

• 1999-2012  Lecturer University of Cambridge, UK

• 2003-2012  Fellow Churchill College, Cambridge, UK

• Visiting professorships at University of Oslo, University of Rennes, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, ETH Zürich

Werdegang / Ausbildung:

• 1997-1998  Postdoctoral Researcher Pennsylvania State University, USA
• 1996-1997  Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• 1995  DPhil University of Oxford, UK
• 1991  MSc Earth Sciences, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
  
• 1990  MSc Physical Geography, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
  

Wissenschaftliche Gremien:

• Past Chair, European Geoscience Union, Outreach Committee
• Past President , European Geiscience Union, Geomorphology Division
  
• Founding Editor, Earth Surface Dynamics
  

Auszeichnungen:

• American Geophysical Union: Fellow 2021
• Geological Society of America: Kirk Bryan Award  2019
• European Geosciences Union: Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal 2016
• Helmholtz Association: Recruiting Initiative 2012
• British Society for Geomoprphology: Gordon Warwick Award 2007
• Trinity College Dublin: University Research Fellowship 1996-97
• British Council: Scholarship 1992-95