Max Rau joined the TUM Landslide Research Group as a PhD student working on landscape evolution models. He finished his B.Sc. in Geosciences and M.Sc. in Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology at the TUM and LMU.
His research interest as a PhD student focuses on transient landscape evolution to plate and plume mode. Max is part of the Research Training Group (RTG) entitled "Geophysical modeling of vertical motion processes constrained by geodetic and geological observations (UPLIFT)", which is hosted by the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich under the auspices of the Munich GeoCenter. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the RTG aims to understand and quantify uplift mechanisms of the continental lithosphere in an interdisciplinary approach involving geophysics, geodesy, geology, geomorphology, mathematics and computer science.