Chair of Landslide Research

The five fastet runners of the team Landsliders reached a time of 02:05:18 over 5.5km. Many thanks to the TUM:Jungeakademie for organising this great event, which was a complete success despite the persistent rain.   See you next year at the…

From 4th to 5th of April 2023, the partners of the Interreg Alpine Space project "X-RISK-CC" held the first face-to-face meeting in Bolzano, Italy. Michael Krautblatter, Theresa Frimberger, and Daniel Straub (TUM Engineering Risk Analysis) travelled…

We are taking part at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna from April 23-29. Find more information here. We are presenting the following topics: EGU23-15426 | Posters on site | NH3.5 Towards Integrating Rockwall Retreat…

For our most recent project, we have pushed the limits of rock sampling in a tunnel: We used a chainsaw to collect large rock probes that could not be obtained using traditional techniques. Combined with core drilling, we collected a large number of…

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Professor Michael Krautblatter gave an interview in FOCUS Online Earth on the AlpSenseRely-project and our research at the Hochvogel rock slope instability. https://focus.de/178884500 (5.03 min, German)

From 24th to 27th November 2022, over 120 researchers joined the Mid-European Geomorphology Meeting and the Meeting of the Arbeitskreis Permafrost that took place in Kaprun, Austria. The TUM Landslide Research Group joined very actively with 12…

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…

In the night between October 25th and 26th 2022 we could detect the detatchment of ca. 300-500 m³ of rock at the Hochvogel with our new deformation camera (Geoprevent). The rock mass fell from an overhanging bank in the steep southwestern wall below…

Are the impacts of climate change evident in our long-term permafrost monitoring in the Kammstollen (Zugspitze)? Watch the new episode "Wie verändern sich die Alpen?" of the br documentary Unkraut to see the answer from Riccardo and his team. See…