Achim Beylich

Dr. Achim A. Beylich is a geomorphologist with more than 26 years of work experience in field- and laboratory based quantitative process geomorphic research in various climatic environments and landscapes in Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Canada, Russi, Germany, Austria, Norway and Spain. Since 2004, he has been initiating and leading a number of large international and interdisciplinary research networks and programmes on geomorphologic earth surface processes, denudation, sedimentary source-to-sink fluxes and correlations, sedimentary budgets, and landscape evolution under ongoing or accelerated climate change and increasing anthropogenic impacts and pressures. During his scientific career he has been working and has carried out research and training activities at various research institutes and universities in Germany, Sweden, Iceland, Canada and Norway. Since March 2018, he has been Head of Operations of the Geomorphological Field Laboratory (GFL), with offices in Selbu (Trondheim, Norway) (main office) and Calpe (Alicante, Spain). In this role, he is currently both leading and participating in a number of national and international scientific initiatives and research projects related to the analysis of contemporary earth surface systems and processes, hazardous processes, and landscape evolution under ongoing or accelerated environmental change. The various field study areas in different countries include both undisturbed and anthropogenically modified landscape systems. He is a research scientist with formal Professor rank in geomorphology and with more than 110 scientific publications in journals and books and numerous edited works. He is Editor-in-Chief for the journal Geomorphology (Elsevier), Associate Editor for the journal Global and Earth Surface Processes Change (Elsevier), Topical Editor for the journal Earth System Science Data (ESSD) (Copernicus), and an Editorial Board Member for several other international scientific journals. He was the initiator and Chair of the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG) Working Group SEDIBUD (Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments, 2005-2017) and he has been the Chair (2017-2022) and a Steering Committee Member (2022-2026) for the IAG Working Group DENUCHANGE (Denudation and Environmental Changes in Different Morphoclimatic Zones). He was the founder and Chair of GeoNor, the IAG National Scientific Member (NSM) Norway (09/2019-01/2023), and he is the initiator and Chair of the IAG Nordic Network of Geomorphology Groups from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland (IAG NSM GeoNorth, Nordic Group Member and IAG Network, since 2019). Since September 2022, he is the elected Secretary-General of the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG).