Funktion und Aufgaben:

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

Wissenschaftliche Interessen:

• 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.

Karriere:

• 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
  

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:

• Chair, European Geoscience Union, Outreach Committee
• Founding Editor, Earth Surface Dynamics