Saskia Eppinger joins the TUM Landslides Research Group as a PhD candidate

Saskia Eppinger joins the TUM Landslide Research as a PhD student on permafrost research in the Arctic. She is part of a cooperating project with the Alfred-Wegener-Institut Potsdam. Saskia’s project focuses on the carbon release due to Giant Retrogressive Thaw Slumps – large landslides in the arctic permafrost. She will perform her field work on Herschel Island in the Western Canadian Arctic (Yukon Territory). This data will be combined with laboratory work and modelling to gain a better process understanding of retrogressive thaw slumps. The Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU, German Federal Environmental Foundation) sponsors our PhD candidate with a scholarship.