2024-               Senior Research Scientist, University of Glasgow, UK

2009-2024       Research Scientist, Universität Tübingen, Germany

2006-2009       Research Scientist, University of Michigan, USA

2003-2006       Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Michigan, USA

2002-2003       Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge, UK

1997-2001       PhD., Geochemistry (Surface processes), Universität Bern, Switzerland

1992-1997       MSc. (Diploma), Mineralogy/Petrology, Universität Bern, Switzerland

Studying and quantifying Earth surface processes and landforms:

• Quantification of denudation and soil production rates with in situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides
• Age determination of rock surfaces and sedimentary deposits with in situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides
• Quantification of weathering rates with major and trace elements
• Influence of climate and biota on Earth surface processes

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2022-2024      Euro 1,120,000, Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (German Nuclear Waste Disposal Agency, BGE), “Erosion rates across Germany with emphasis on the South German Scarplands – integrating surface analysis, thermochronology, cosmogenic nuclides and landscape evolution modelling”, Co-PIs (equal contributions) Glotzbach, Beer, Schaller and Ehlers

2016-2019      Euro 242,950, German Science Foundation, “Imaging the weathering front with geophysical and geochemical techniques”, PI Schaller, Co-PI van der Kruk

2011-2014      Euro 210,000, German Science Foundation, “Quantifying Paleo-denudation rates with cosmogenic nuclides from European river terraces”, PI Schaller, Co-PI Ehlers

2004-2008      $93,000, Swiss National Science Foundation, “Quantifying weathering rates and soil ages in a glacial chronosequence: Wind River Mountains, Wyoming, USA”, PI Schaller

2003                $6,350, measurements of 14 pilot samples, seed fund of PRIME lab “Soil weathering, mixing, and erosion: Wind River Mountains, Wyoming”, PI Schaller

2002                $30,000, Swiss National Science Foundation, “A 50 ka record of fluvial bedrock incision in the active mountain belt of Taiwan from in situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides”, PI Schaller