We study the geophysical interactions between the lithosphere, atmosphere and biosphere domains. Our expertise spans the fields of geomorphology, sedimentology and geodynamics on Earth and other planets:
- Analogue & computational modelling (e.g. sea level, geodynamics, landscape evolution)
- Archaeology of the Pleistocene
- Cryosphere (e.g. glacial, periglacial & postglacial landscapes)
- Extraterrestrial surface processes (e.g. igneous & sedimentary volcanism, cryovolcanism)
- Extreme events (e.g. catastrophic floods & landslides)
- Geochronology (e.g. cosmogenic nuclides, luminescence dating)
- Human impacts on Earth surface processes
- Long-term evolution of landscapes in response to climate & tectonics
- Sedimentary archives of environmental change (e.g. fluvial, lacustrine & aeolian)
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John Jansen | PhD | Senior researcher & team leader | geomorphology, cosmogenic nuclides, Quaternary geology |
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Petr Brož | Mgr, PhD | Researcher | extraterrestrial volcanic & magmatic processes, sedimentary volcanism |
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Vladimír Cajz | RNDr, CSc | Researcher | volcanics & volcaniclastics, regional geology of the Eger Rift |
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Shantamoy Guha | MSc, PhD | Postdoctoral researcher | geomorphology, cosmogenic nuclides |
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Filip Havlíček | BSc | MSc student | analogue modeling, structural geology, extensional tectonics |
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Jiří Laurin | PhD | Researcher | sedimentary geology, palaeoclimate, Milanković cycles |
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Michal Rajchl | PhD | Researcher | clastic sedimentology, tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Eger Rift |
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Greg Ruetenik | PhD | Researcher | surface process modelling, geodynamics |
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Lenka Špičáková | PhD | Researcher | clastic sedimentology |
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David Uličný | RNDr, CSc | Senior researcher | sedimentology, sequence & stable isotope stratigraphy, sedimentary basins |
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Tomáš Uxa | RNDr, PhD | Researcher | cryosphere, palaeoclimate, geothermics |
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Kaleb Wagner | MSc | PhD student | geomorphology, Quaternary stratigraphy, geochronometry |
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Lotta Ylä-Mella | MSc | PhD student | numerical modelling, geochronometry |
Currently funded projects
- Reconstructing the subglacial erosional history of the first Eurasian Ice Sheets (GAUK 2023-25: Wagner)
- Interplay between relative sea-level & surface processes: comparing responses across tectonically active & inactive terrains (GAČR 2023-25, Ruetenik, Jansen)
- Establishing the chronology of the first Eurasian ice sheets (GAČR, 2022-24, Jansen, Ruetenik, Ylä-Mella, Wagner)
- Geodynamic controls on continental rifting in Cenozoic central Europe: insights from the Eger Rift, Bohemia (GAČR, 2022-24, Uličný)
- Inversion modelling of cosmogenic nuclides in geochronology (GAUK 2022-24: Ylä-Mella)
- Dynamics of the periglacial environment in the Antarctic Peninsula region under ongoing climate change (GAČR Junior Star, 2022-26: Uxa, Hrbáček)
Cutting rock samples for cosmogenic nuclide analysis, Hellheim Fjord, East Greenland (photo—DL Egholm, 2018)
Performing analogue experiments in a low pressure chamber (Open University, UK) to investigate the behaviour of mud flows on Mars (photo—P Brož, 2019)
Sampling cryoturbation structures, Brno–Černovice, Czechia (photo—M Křížek, 2020)
Setting up weather stations and dust traps at Mt San Jacinto, California, to investigate the influence of altitude-driven climate variations on soil weathering (photo—K Hu, 2020)
Installation of air-ground-bedrock temperature monitoring devices in Évora, Portugal (photo—J Šafanda, 2017)
Temperature logging a 2 km-deep borehole at Litoměřice, Czechia (photo—P Dědeček, 2020)