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:

• Climate sensitivity of glacial landscape dynamics (COLD) (2018-2023; funded by ERC Starting Grant)
  
• Biota, fractures, thresholds: Emergent self-organization in landscape evolution? (since 2019; funded by DFG: SCHE 1676/4-2)

Abgeschlossen:

• Quantifying the response of rapidly eroding landscapes to climate change with cosmogenic nuclides (2016-2019; funded by DFG: SCHE 1676/3-1)
• 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 (s2016; funded by DFG: SCHE 1676/4-1)
• 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)

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