Roland Zech

Roland Zech is a Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Jena. His research focuses on Quaternary landscape and climate history, climate change, glacial chronologies, and the analysis of paleosol-sequences, lake sediments, cosmogenic nuclides, biomarkers, and compound-specific isotopes (D, 18O, 13C, 14C). His work spans regions including Germany, Switzerland, Mongolia, Siberia, Central Asia, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, South Africa, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.

Research Interests include:

• Quaternary landscape and climate history
• Glacial chronologies and lake sediment analysis
• Application of cosmogenic nuclides and biomarker isotopes

Scientific Awards:

• 2014: SNSF Professorship
• 2011: SNSF Ambizione Fellowship
• 2011: Oral presentation award, AK Geomorphology, Leipzig
• 2011: Oral presentation award, Int. Conference on Paleopedology, Hohenheim
• 2010: Oral presentation award, GASIR (German Ass. Stable Isotopes), Cologne
• 2008: SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 2003: Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Bergen, Norway
• 2001: Fellowship of the 'Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, eV'
• 2000: Scholarship from Indiana University, USA

Contact: roland.zech@uni-jena.de | Phone: +49 3641 9-48811 | Fax: +49 3641 9-48812 | Office hours: Tuesday 11:00 to 12:00 and by appointment.