I am an Earth Scientist whose research aims to better understand the interactions and feedbacks between the tectonic, climatic, anthropogenic, and biological processes that shape topography. My research bridges erosional landscapes, their detrital products, and resulting stratigraphy in a source-to-sink perspective that links active processes to the sedimentary record. In addition to being fundamental to address the sustainability challenges of the 21^st century, quantfying Earth surface processes is important because they influence the flux and routing of surface water, sediment, nutrients, and organic matter; affect feedbacks between the solid earth and atmosphere; and drive the evolution and diversification of species. My research interests lie at the crossroads between process‐based geomorphology, physical geography, active tectonics, geochemistry, and natural hazards. My work brings together field observations, isotope-proxies, remote sensing, and numerical modelling. In particular, I am an expert in the application of cosmogenic nuclide geochemistry for the quantification of erosion rates on centennial and millennial time scales. Below I list several projects that I am currently working on. Feel free to get in contact, if you have any questions :)

Why is Colombia one of the most biodiverse places on this planet? When did the Northern Andes form and how are the Andes connected to the deep dynamics of the Nazca subduction zone?

I am interested in how investigating how recent changes in geometry of the tectonic plate subducting below South America changed topography, and drove the evolution of animal and plant species in Colombia. I also investigate how subduction processes changed the drainage patterns and sediment routing systems.