Team > Markus Winkler

LS Geomorphologie

My research focuses on the change of dynamics (sediment transport, deposition and erosion, morphology) of the upper Eger catchment over the last 600 years. The human use (mills, mining) of the region plays a major role, on the one hand through direct interventions in the river systems, but also through the legacies, which I use as tracers. I use a mixture of sediment and chemical analyses as well as geophysical measurements to reveal the changes in the floodplains.

Topic of the PhD thesis:

Changing river dynamics in the Eger/Röslau catchment since the late Middle Ages - investigations using three human induced metals as tracers (Hg, Fe, Sn).

Biography:

Since 2023
Research assistant, PhD student at the Department of Geomorphology, University of Bayreuth

2018-2022
Master of Science in Geoecology - Environmental Sciences; University of Bayreuth; (Master thesis: Control factors of arrested succession on forest fire slopes in the Northern Limestone Alps)

2015-2018
Bachelor of Science in Geoecology - Environmental Sciences; University of Bayreuth; (Bachelor thesis: Spatial distribution of Hallimasch rhizomorphs in the soil in the periphery of deadwood logs)

LS Geomorphologie

Markus Winkler
PhD Student

Room: 143, GEO II

Phone: +49 921 552267
E-mail: markus.c.winkler@uni-bayreuth.de