Chair of Landslide Research

Benjamin Jacobs visited the LMU Volcanology Team for their multiparametric experiment within the Broadband Acquisition and Imaging Operation (BAcIO) at Stromboli. This operative workshop is a great collaboration of several international partners such…

Dr. Samuel Weber completed his PhD at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to his PhD studies, he received his BSc and MSc in Geography with Minor Physics and Glaciology. His research interest concerns heterogeneous environments and climate…

Doris Hermle, M.Sc., studied at the University of Innsbruck and Durham, England. She received her BSc and MSc in Geography with focus on Natural Hazards, Global Change and minors in Remote Sensing and Glaciology. Her research interest focuses on the…

Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter appeared in German TV two times last week with documentations from Kitzsteinhorn, Zugspitze and Hochvogel (in German). ARDalpha: Is the Zugspitze falling apart? BR: Extreme - The new normal? Climate Change in Bavaria

Theresa, Riccardo and Johannes (and other researchers) started their field campaign at Cotopaxi volcano. (Ecuador, South America). During their 3-week stay, they perform electrical resistivity tomographies (ERT) and seismic measurements to reveal…

In January 2019 Michael Krautblatter and Saskia Eppinger joined the first meeting for this years arctic expedition at the Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam. The field campagne will take place this summer on Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada.…

Debris flows are destructive mass movements in alpine regions. In a new paper, appeared in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (ESPL), Andreas Dietrich and Michael Krautblatter detected geomorphic change induced by an erosive debris flow in the…

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…

Doctoral researcher Riccardo Scandroglio and Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter present their research efforts within an 6.30 min report on climate change. A team of Bayerische Rundfunk (BR) journalists accompanied Riccardo and some colleagues to the…

Tanja Schröder, PhD candidate of the TUM Landslide Research group, was elected as the first doctoral candidate representative of the TUM Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering – Faculty Graduate Center (FGC-BGU) starting November…