Research areas

  Past environmental and climatic changes

  Present state of the Earth and solar systems

• Paleoclimate dynamics
• Planetary atmosphere evolution
• Tectonic geomorphology

• Soil organic carbon
• Climate variability and predictability
• Regional atmospheric processes
• Upper atmosphere physics and chemistry
• Planet rotation

  Human-environment interactions

  Development of modelling tools

• Land use (including urbanization)
• Natural versus human-induced soil erosion and degradation
• Anthropogenic climate change and impacts
• Pollutant diffusion
• Emerging diseases and disease vectors

• Climate models
• Ocean and sea ice models
• Soil-geomorphic models