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)
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Cutting rock samples for cosmogenic nuclide analysis, Hellheim Fjord, East Greenland (photo—DL Egholm, 2018)
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Performing analogue experiments in a low pressure chamber (Open University, UK) to investigate the behaviour of mud flows on Mars (photo—P Brož, 2019)
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Sampling cryoturbation structures, Brno–Černovice, Czechia (photo—M Křížek, 2020)
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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)
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Installation of air-ground-bedrock temperature monitoring devices in Évora, Portugal (photo—J Šafanda, 2017)
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Temperature logging a 2 km-deep borehole at Litoměřice, Czechia (photo—P Dědeček, 2020)