The Team

Aaron Bufe

In my research, I combine aspects of sedimentology, geomorphology and geochemistry to develop quantitative constraints on physical and chemical mass fluxes across Earth’s surface. My work has three ultimate aims: (1) To quantify and predict how landscapes respond to changes in climate and tectonics, (2) to understand how surface processes regulate the carbon cycle and Earth’s climate, and (3) to use stratigraphy and landscapes as quantitative archives for the past. To address these aims, I use an interdisciplinary array of tools from geochemistry to analogue experiments and geochronology.

After a postdoc at the German Research Center of Geosciences, I joined the LMU in April of 2023. For more details, download my CV.

Hao-Wei Huang
PhD student (2025 – present)

Within the ERC-funded project FloW, I quantify sediment-residence times and weathering of sediments that are transported across the floodplain of the Beni and Madeira Rivers. I have a master’s degree (2023) from the Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. You can find more information on researchgate or google scholar.

Alumni

Albert Cabré
Postdoctoral Scholar (2024 – 2025)
Now: Researcher at University of Bayreuth
Topic: Frequency-Magnitude relationships of debris flows in the Atacama Desert

Ao Liu
Visiting PhD student (2024 – 2026)
Topic: Oxidative weathering reactions during the early Permian Artinskian warming event (AWE).

Kaja Schultz
Master Student (2024 – 2025)
Now: PhD student at LMU
Thesis: Weathering fluxes under moderate erosion rates – the case of the Black Forest, Germany.

Alexander Gessner
Master Student (2020 – 2024)
Thesis: Quantifying timescales of organic matter build-up in landslide deposits: Insights from the Southern Alps of New Zealand (2024)

Monika Pfau
Master Student (2022 – 2024)
Now at Gruppe F
Thesis: Mobilisierung von organischem Kohlenstoff durch die Jahrhundertflut 2021 im Ahrtal (2024)

Theresa Binder
Master Student (2018 – 2019)
Thesis: Entwicklung und Zusammenhang von Abflussreaktion und Wasserchemie entlang einer Moränen-Chronosequenz im Gletschervorfeld des Steingletschers, CH (2019)