Dr. Jürgen Mey
WG Analysis of Hydrologic Systems
Campus Golm
Haus 1, Raum 0.04
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam-Golm
Scientific profile
My expertise includes the development and application of physical and statistical models in natural hazard research, landscape evolution, and paleoclimatology. As the scientific coordinator of a large, DAAD co-financed Indo-German project on natural hazards in the Himalayas (Co-PREPARE), I gained invaluable professional experience at the interface between science, the university administration and the funding agency. I am responsible for the organisation of reciprocal exchanges of doctoral candidates and MSc students and for organising an Indo-German field school into the Indian Himalayas. The latter focuses on the increase in extreme hydrometeorological events and their impacts on the expansion of hydropower and transport infrastructure.
I am the the UP contact person for Geo.X, the geoscience research network in Berlin and Brandenburg. Geo.X offers three funding programs, which I played a leading role in designing.
Over the past three years, together with partners from Potsdam’s research community, I contributed to organizing the Potsdam Summer School on sustainable development topics.
From mid-2020 to early 2024, I worked part-time for the Swiss National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Nagra). In collaboration with colleagues from UP and Université Rennes 1, France, I was heavily involved in a study on the impact of glacial-interglacial climate fluctuations on the evolution of the Rhine between Lake Constance and Basel.
Publications
D’Arcy, M. K., Schildgen, T. F., Bonnet, S., Duesing, W., Tofelde, S., Hella, D. C. R., Mey, J., Murray, A. S., Alonso, R. N., and Strecker, M. R.: A 300 kyr record of past hydroclimate change from alluvial fans in the southern Central Andes, Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 50, 1–22, doi.org/10.1002/esp.70006, 2025.
Leger, T. P. M., Jouvet, G., Kamleitner, S., Mey, J., Herman, F., Finley, B. D., Ivy-Ochs, S., Vieli, A., Henz, A., and Nussbaumer, S. U.: A data-consistent model of the last glaciation in the Alps achieved with physics-driven AI, Nat. Commun., 16, 1–16, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56168-3, 2025.
Muñoz, J. J., Agnon, A., Fohlmeister, J., Tomás, S., Mey, J., Frank, N., Schröder, B., Ritzrau, A. S., Garcin, Y., Darvasi, Y., Melnick, D., Mutti, M., and Strecker, M. R.: Unveiling the Transition From Paleolake Lisan to Dead Sea Through the Analysis of Lake Paleoshorelines and Radiometric Dating of Fossil Stromatolites, Geochemistry, Geophys. Geosystems, 25, 1–41, doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011541, 2024.
Boer, A. De, Schwanghart, W., Mey, J., Adhikari, B. R., and Reimann, T.: Insight into the dynamics of a long-runout mass movement using single-grain feldspar luminescence in the Pokhara Valley, Nepal, Geochronology, 53–70, doi.orghttps://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-6-53-2024, 2024.
Mey, J., Guntu, R. K., Plakias, A., Almeida, I. S. De, and Schwanghart, W.: More than one landslide per road kilometer – surveying and modeling mass movements along the Rishikesh – Joshimath (NH-7), Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 3207–3223, doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3207-2024, 2024.
Mey, J., Schwanghart, W., Boer, A. De, and Reimann, T.: Differential bleaching of quartz and feldspar luminescence signals under high-turbidity conditions, Geochronology, 5, 377–389, doi.orghttps://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-377-2023, 2023.
Mey, J., D’Arcy, M., Schildgen, T. F., Egholm, D. L., Wittmann, H., and Strecker, M. R.: Temperature and precipitation in the southern Central Andes during the Last Glacial Maximum, Heinrich Stadial 1 and the Younger Dryas, Quat. Sci. Rev., 248, doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106592, 2020.
D’Arcy, M. D., Schildgen, T. F., Strecker, M. R., Wittmann, H., Duesing, W., Mey, J., Tofelde, S., Weissmann, P., and Alonso, R. N.: Timing of past glaciation at the Sierra de Aconquija, northwestern Argentina, and throughout the Central Andes, Quat. Sci. Rev., 204, 37–57, doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.11.022, 2019.
Savi, S., Schildgen, T. F., Tofelde, S., Wittmann, H., Scherler, D., Mey, J., Alonso, R. N., and Strecker, M. R.: Climatic controls on debris-flow activity and sediment aggradation: The Del Medio fan, NW Argentina, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 121, 1–22, doi.org/10.1002/2016JF003912, 2016.
Mey, J., Scherler, D., Wickert, A. D., Egholm, D. L., Tesauro, M., Schildgen, T. F., and Strecker, M. R.: Glacial isostatic uplift of the European Alps, Nat. Commun., 7, 1–10, doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13382, 2016.
Mey, J., Scherler, D., Zeilinger, G., and Strecker, M. R.: Estimating the fill thickness and bedrock topography in intermontane valleys using artificial neural networks, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 120, 1–20, doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003270, 2015.
Wang, P., Scherler, D., Liu-zeng, J., Mey, J., Avouac, J.-P., Zhang, Y., and Shi, D.: Tectonic control of Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge revealed by a buried canyon in Southern Tibet, Science, 346, 978–981, doi.org/10.1126/science.1259041, 2014.
Scherler, D., Munack, H., Mey, J., Eugster, P., Wittmann, H., Codilean, A. T., Kubik, P., and Strecker, M. R.: Ice dams, outburst floods, and glacial incision at the western margin of the Tibetan Plateau: A > 100 k.y. chronology from the Shyok Valley, Karakoram, GSA Bull., 126, 738–758, doi.org/10.1130/B30942.1, 2014.