Doctoral Students

Active Doctoral Students of the Graduate School

Anoop Ambili
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, email anoop @ gfz-potsdam.de
Holocene climate variability in the Himalaya region: A case study of lake sediments from Spiti valley.
 
Nina Bösche
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, email nina.boesche @ gfz-potsdam.de
Provenance Analysis from Remote Sensing Data.
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam, email sven.borchardt @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Nonlinear Analysis of hyperspectral remote sensing data (BMWi EnMap)
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam, email adeeken @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Quantifying long-term erosion and exhumation rates across different climatic compartments of the southern Himalayan Front, NW-India.
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam, email saptarshi @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Temporal variation in Himalayan Erosion over last 5 Ma.
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam, email dulanya @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Paleoenvironmental reconstructions in the Malawi Rift.
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam, email ebert @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Fuzzy Logic Methods on Remote Sensing Data.
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam, email patricia.eugster @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Competing influence of fluvial and glacial erosion in the western Himalaya.
 
Verena Förster
Seminar für Geographie und ihre Didaktik, U Köln, email V.Foerster @ uni-koeln.de
The Chew Bahir Coring Project: Climate-vegetation feedbacks during the African Humid Period in the southern Ethiopian Rift.
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam, email sina.grewe @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Biogeochemical adaptation to variable lake chemistry. 
 
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, email liv.heinecke @ awi.de
Himalayan pollen as tracer of monsoonal strength and moisture source.
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam, email hoffmann @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Deciphering the past and present monsoonal mois-ture gradients in the Arun valley, eastern Nepal. 
 
Biochemie und Biologie, U Potsdam, email kyalo @ uni-potsdam.de
Ancient DNA from East African lakes.
 
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, email ricarda.maekeler @ gfz-potsdam.de
Causes for slow weathering and erosion in the steep, warm, monsun-subjected highlands of Sri Lanka.
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, email olen @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Reconstructing rates and impact of glacial erosion in the Arun Valley, eastern Himalaya.
 
Kevin Oluoch
Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung, email oluoch @ pik-potsdam.de
Spatio-temporal analysis of rainfall anomaly patterns and extremes in the monsoonal region from the complex network perspective.
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam email saswati.sarkar @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Holocene variations in the Strength of the SW Indian Monsoon System: A combined sedimentological, biomarker and stable isotope approach.
 
DYCOS Nichtlineare Dynamik, U Potsdam, email nschuetz @ agnld.uni-potsdam.de
Trends, rhythms and events in Plio-Pleistocene African climate: deciphering climate-evolution linkages using advanced methods of data analysis.
 
Vegetationsökologie und Naturschutz, U Potsdam, email synodino @ uni-potsdam.de
Modeling past and future climate induced vegetation changes in East African savannas.
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam, email veronica.torres.acosta @ uni-potsdam.de
Assessing uplift, exhumation and erosion processes in the Kenya Rift through (U/Th)-He thermochronology and cosmogenic nuclide dating.
 

Former Doctoral Students of the Graduate School

Now at University of Oslo, email laura.epp @ nhm.uio.no
Recent and fossil DNA as indicators of past environmental change.
 
Now at University of Vienna, Austria, email estherh @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Seismicity, active normal faulting and thrusting in different compartments of the Himalaya – local phenomena or regional trends?
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam, email annett @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Fluctuating climate and consequences for the mammalian and hominin evolution: closing the gap in the Northern Kenya Rift.
 
Now at Depatment of Mathematics, U North Carolina, email nmalik @ email.unc.edu
Nonlinear data analysis to detect complex tectonics-climate-biosphere interactions in the African-Asian Monsoonal domain.
 
Now at University of Nairobi, Kenya, email olaka @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
The sensitivity of East African rift lakes to climate fluctuations.
 
Now at FU Berlin, Institute of Meteorology (Post-doc HIMPAC project), email stefan.polanski @ met.fu-berlin.de
The role of the Himalayan and the Tibetan plateau for the Indian monsoon
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam, email dirk @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
What controls late Pleistocene and Holocene erosion in the NW Himalaya?
 
Biochemie und Biologie, U Potsdam, email stoof @ uni-potsdam.de
Impact of environmental pressure on biodiversity: tectonically controlled environmental separation in the Kenya Rift.
 
Now at GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, email fwilke @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Quantifying crystalline exhumation in the Himalaya.
 
Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam, email wichura @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Modelling physical properties of rocks as function of geodynamic and erosional processes and its feedback.
 
Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam, email juliane.wischnewski @ awi.de
Quantitative climate reconstruction of the African/Asian monsoon optimum.
 
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, email wolff @ gfz-potsdam.de
East African monsoon variability since the last glacial.
 
Now at GFZ-Potsdam, email hendrik.wulf @ gfz-potsdam.de
Contemporary surface processes in the Sutlej region of North India.
 
Postdoc at Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, U Potsdam, email zamagni @ geo.uni-potsdam.de
Biocalcification in the Paleogene.