Function and Responsibilities:

Scientific Executive Director and Chairman of the Board (interim)
Professor, Institute for Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Potsdam

Research Interests:

• Erosion processes and fluxes.
  

• Landscape evolution.
  

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

• Geophysical constraints on geomorphic processes, and vice versa.

• Predicting and inverting basin stratigraphy.
  

• Teleconnections within Earth’s surface system.

• Socio-economic costs of Earth surface dynamics.

Career:

• 2012  Professor University of Potsdam, Germany
  
• 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