Isabel Wapenhans
TS Tectonics and Structural Geology
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Isabel Wapenhans for the poster/PICO entitled:
Can Low-Temperature Thermochronology Constrain Quaternary Glacial Erosion? A Case Study from the Tauern Window, Eastern European Alps (Wapenhans, I.; van der Beek, P.; Colleps, C.; Bernard, M.; Gong, L.; Mariotti, A.; Amalberti, J.)
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Isabel Wapenhans is a final-year PhD student at the University of Potsdam (UP), Germany. Her current research investigates the possibility of resolving Quaternary glacial landscape evolution in alpine settings using low-temperature thermochronology with thermal-kinematic modelling, and geomorphology, in the framework of the ERC-funded COOLER project (https://erc-cooler.eu) led by Peter van der Beek.
Isabel received the OSPP award for the work she presented at EGU25 on the Tauern Window, Eastern Alps. She found that glacial erosion (in addition to tectonic uplift) is better resolved by data from larger valleys, and that the 4He/3He methodology (a novel advancement in thermochronology) promises further improvements in modelling the temporal evolution of such valleys.
Isabel is currently completing her doctoral thesis on the geomorphology and thermochronology of the Eastern Alps and the Cordillera Blanca, Perú. She is actively seeking exciting postdoctoral opportunities in these research fields and welcomes inquiries at: wapenhans@uni-potsdam.de