Current positions
2024– Distinguished visiting professor, SKLGP, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China
2023– Visiting senior fellow, Earth, Atmospheric & Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia
2021– Group leader, GFÚ Surface Processes & Palaeoclimate
2019– Senior scientist, GFÚ Institute of Geophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
2018– Associate editor, Geological Society of America Bulletin
Previous positions
2015–16 Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, Earth & Environmental Science, University of Potsdam, Germany
2013–14 Senior research fellow, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia
2010–11 Postdoctoral researcher, Physical Geography & Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden
2005–10 NERC research fellow, Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK
2004 Postdoctoral fellow, Physical Sciences, University of New South Wales (ADFA), Australia
2003–04 Royal Academy of Engineering fellow, Geography & Geomatics, University of Glasgow, UK
2001–03 Postdoctoral fellow, Geosciences, University of Wollongong, Australia
2001 PhD, Physical Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (supervisor: GJ Brierley)
Bedrock channel morphodynamics & landscape evolution in an arid zone gorge, SE central Australia pdf
Research visits
2022 EU-Czech Ministry of Education visiting researcher, Geoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark
2019–24 Visiting professor, SKLGP, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China
2016–18 Visiting professor, Environment & Planning, Henan University, China
2015–16 Visiting senior fellow, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia
2015–16 Visiting senior fellow, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia
2015 Visiting researcher, Geoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark
2014 Visiting researcher, Geoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark
2011–14 Adjunct researcher, Physical Geography & Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden
2010 Visiting researcher, German Research Centre for Geosciences-GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
2005 Visiting fellow, Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Australia
Selected projects
2023–25 Interplay between relative sea-level and surface processes
Czech Science Foundation [GA Ruetenik, JD Jansen] CZK 2.3M
2011–14 Adjunct researcher, Physical Geography & Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden
2010 Visiting researcher, German Research Centre for Geosciences-GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
2005 Visiting fellow, Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Australia
Selected projects
2023–25 Interplay between relative sea-level and surface processes
Czech Science Foundation [GA Ruetenik, JD Jansen] CZK 2.3M
2022–24 Establishing the chronology of the first great Eurasian ice sheets
Czech Science Foundation [JD Jansen, M Margold] CZK 6.4M
2016–19 Formation of summit flats in cold-region topography (FROST)
Danish Research Council [DL Egholm et al.] DKK 6M
2015–16 Scandinavian mountain plateaux: tectonic or climatic origins?
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, European Commission via Brandenburg Academy [JD Jansen] EUR 120k
2013–16 Anabranching rivers, the arteries of arid Australia
Australian Research Council Discovery Project [JD Jansen, GC Nanson, D Fink, T Fujioka, HQ Huang] AUD 380k
2007–10 How do rivers respond to uplift? A study of river transience in Scandinavia
UK Natural Environment Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship [JD Jansen] GBP 382k
2006–07 Palaeoclimatic & environmental significance of Late Quaternary drainage in the Lake Eyre basin
Australian Research Council Discovery Project [GC Nanson, BG Jones, JD Jansen] AUD 270k
2004–08 Using the glacio-isostatic uplift of N Britain to assess knickpoint recession in bedrock rivers
UK Natural Environment Research Council Standard Grant [P Bishop, T Hoey, JD Jansen] GBP 116k
2003–04 Bedrock river morphology & incision processes in a rapidly uplifting mountain block
UK Royal Academy of Engineering [P Bishop, JD Jansen] GBP 25k.
Danish Research Council [DL Egholm et al.] DKK 6M
2015–16 Scandinavian mountain plateaux: tectonic or climatic origins?
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, European Commission via Brandenburg Academy [JD Jansen] EUR 120k
2013–16 Anabranching rivers, the arteries of arid Australia
Australian Research Council Discovery Project [JD Jansen, GC Nanson, D Fink, T Fujioka, HQ Huang] AUD 380k
2007–10 How do rivers respond to uplift? A study of river transience in Scandinavia
UK Natural Environment Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship [JD Jansen] GBP 382k
2006–07 Palaeoclimatic & environmental significance of Late Quaternary drainage in the Lake Eyre basin
Australian Research Council Discovery Project [GC Nanson, BG Jones, JD Jansen] AUD 270k
2004–08 Using the glacio-isostatic uplift of N Britain to assess knickpoint recession in bedrock rivers
UK Natural Environment Research Council Standard Grant [P Bishop, T Hoey, JD Jansen] GBP 116k
2003–04 Bedrock river morphology & incision processes in a rapidly uplifting mountain block
UK Royal Academy of Engineering [P Bishop, JD Jansen] GBP 25k.
PhD supervision
2024– Ruben Bertels, The chronology of the early Laurentide ice sheets.
2021– Lotta Ylä-Mella, Numerical methods applied to cosmogenic nuclides in palaeoglaciology.
2021– Kaleb Wagner, The sedimentary record of the first Eurasian ice sheets.
2021– Kaleb Wagner, The sedimentary record of the first Eurasian ice sheets.
2017–20 Mahmoud Abbas, PhD Late Quaternary hydrological records in Jordan & Egypt inferred from OSL dating on lacustrine sediments; implications for palaeoclimate & human dispersal in the Middle East. Mahmoud now holds a postdoc at Shantou University, China.
2013–19 Sarah Eccleshall, PhD The why, when & where of anabranching rivers in the arid Lake Eyre Basin. Sarah is now with an environmental consultancy, Sydney.
2014–18 Martin Struck, PhD Investigating the sediment conveyor in arid Australia with cosmogenic nuclides. Martin is now with the Federal Waterways Engineering & Research Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2010–14 Anna Habeck-Fardy, PhD River channel self-adjustment towards equilibrium: Endogenic & exogenic
influences on distinctly different river types in the Lake Eyre basin of arid central
Australia. Anna is now a physician.
2008–12 Katie Whitbread, PhD Postglacial evolution of bedrock rivers in post-orogenic terrains: the NW Scottish Highlands. Katie is now with the British Geological Survey, Edinburgh.
2008–11 Miguel Castillo, PhD Base-level fall, knickpoint retreat & transient channel morphology: The case of small bedrock rivers on resistant quartzites (Isle of Jura, western Scotland). Miguel is now with the Institute of Geology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City.
