Research

• EarthShape 4a: Modelling and budgeting sediment transport, storage and connectivity - biotic effect. Part of: EarthShape: Earth surface shaping by biota. A German-Chilean Priority Program in the Chilean Coast Range. Project start: 02/2016 (funded by DFG) 
• PermArg - Rock glacier permafrost in the Central Andes of Argentina: regional distribution – ice content – hydrological significance.  Project start: 11/2015 (funded by DFG)
• Postglacial fan evolution in the Upper Rhone Valley, Switzerland - gradual or catastrophic?
• Geomorphological and hydrological significance of permafrost in the Alps (GeoHyPe)

Completed Projects:

• „Atlas VR” - knowledge management for Disaster Risk Management.
  Developing an atlas of vulnerability and resilience.
• MOREXPERT - Monitoring potential hazardous rock walls and slopes in mountain regions - development of an expert system and adaptation strategies (COMET - K1: Centre for Climate Change Adaption Technologies)
• Visualisation of landforms and geomorphic process domains using regional data sets - creating a digital geomorphological map of the European Alps (GIScience Doctoral College - DK 1, funded by FWF)

Research Interests

• High mountain geomorphology
• Sediment budgets
• Mass movements (landslides)
• Permafrost and periglacial processes
• Natural hazards
• Geophysical applications in geomorphology
• GIS and digital terrain analyses

Research Regions

• European Alps (Valais, Wetterstein, Dolomites, Hohe Tauern)
• Rocky Mountains, Colorado Front Range/ USA
• Andes of Argentina
• Chilean Coastal Cordillera
• German upland (Eifel)