General

• Theoretical basics and methodology of Physical Geography
• Development of digital teaching content and examination formats
• Implementation of research-oriented teaching
• Mentoring B.Sc. and M.Sc. candidates as well as international doctoral students
• Member of doctoral and examination committees

Introductory courses

• Climate- and Hydrogeography
• Geomorphology and Soil Geography
• Statistics and modelling geo-scientifical data
• Geographical and scientifical working
• Basics of Cartography

Field courses (one- to seven-day excursions)

• Berlin city area and surrounding region
• NE-German morainic landscapes
• North Sea and Baltic Sea Coasts
• Harz mountains and forelands
• Middle Rhine valley
• Eifel mountains and volcanoes

Theory and practice of the methodology of Physical Geography

• Five-day practical field work and five-day laboratory work
• Lecture: Measuring in Glacial Systems
• Lecture: Geomorphological Mapping

Project related training (practical field work, preparatory and debriefing courses)

• Physical-geographical basics of Geoarchaeology (preparatory course)
• Glacial landscapes in NE-Germany along the Weichselian Pomeranian and Frankfurt ice marginal positions (Geopark Schorfheide, Barnim till plain, Panke catchment)
• Palaeoenvironmental research in Taiwan (Hsueh Shan range, Puli basin)

Regional and applied topics of Physical Geography

• Quaternary landscape development in Central Europe and palaeoclimate research
• Palaeoclimatology in Taiwan and East Asia

Award

• Students’ Teaching Award 2019 - Institute for Geographical Sciences, FU Berlin

Comments of students evaluating the lecturer

• “The enthusiasm of the lecturer was catching!”
• “Brisk and comprehensible explanations, I even understood difficult topics.”
• “Committed, friendly, intoxicating”
• “Because of you I discovered my passion for Physical Geography.”
• “The best teacher I ever had at a university!”

Research interests and regions

Geomorphology and Quaternary glaciations in mountainous and alpine environments

• Extent and timing of mountain glaciations from landform-sediment associations

• Equilibrium line altitude (snowline, ELA) as a continental-scale proxy for climate and environmental change

• Remote sensing and field mapping, multi-proxy sediment analysis

• Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides (TCN) and optically simulated luminescence (OSL) for age control

• Additional extensive field experience in several high mountain ranges worldwide: European Alps, Pyrenees, Caucasus, Carpathians, Scandinavian mountains, Corsica, Ireland, Scotland, Kunlun Shan, Qinghai plateau, Pamir, Tian Shan, New Zealand and Japanese Alps

Quaternary stratigraphy and landscape development

• Stratigraphy of Pleistocene terrace complexes in the Taiwanese mountain foreland

• Landscape development and ice marginal positions of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet in northern Germany (Quaternary research group of Margot Böse, FU Berlin)

Aeolian sediments as palaeoclimate archives

• Distribution and composition of fine-grained cover sediments in different altitudes and regions in Taiwan

•  Application of high-resolution particle sizing to extract signals of aeolian dust input

• Test of geochemical parameters to determine potential changes in the dust provenience related to atmospheric circulation patterns in East Asia during the Quaternary

Latest project
„First dating of the maximum glacier extent in the Taiwanese high mountain
range in the Late Pleistocene“, DFG (Prof. M. Böse)

Meeting management

• 2nd International Landscape Archaeology Conference, LAC, 2012, Berlin

Grants and Funding

• German Research Foundation (DFG)

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

• National Science Council of Taiwan

• Berlin Funding for Graduates (NaFöG)

Memberships

• Deutsche Quartärvereinigung (DEUQUA)

Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft

Peer reviewed journal articles

Hebenstreit, R., Hardt, J., Böse, M., 2025. The lowermost last‐glacial equilibrium line altitude in the Taiwanese Central Mountain Range and its implications for the palaeoclimate and the tropospheric moisture transport in East Asia. Journal of Quaternary Science 40 (5), 831-846. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3714

Liu, S.-H., Lüthgens, C., Hardt, J., Hebenstreit, R., Böse, M., Frechen, M., 2023. Late Quaternary formation of the Miaoli Tableland in northwest Taiwan, an interplay of tectonic uplift and fluvial processes dated by OSL. Quaternary Research 112, 128-149. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2022.52

Liu, S.-H., Hebenstreit, R., Böse, M., 2022. Late Quaternary landforms and sedimentary succession in the Miaoli Tableland, Northwestern Taiwan. E&G Quaternary Science Journal, 71, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-71-1-2022

Hardt, J., Lüthgens, C., Hebenstreit, R., Böse, M., 2016. Geochronological (OSL) and geomorphological investigations at the presumed Frankfurt ice marginal position in northeast Germany. Quaternary Science Reviews 154, 85-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.10.015

Hardt, J., Hebenstreit, R., Lüthgens, C., Böse, M., 2015. High-resolution mapping of ice-marginal landforms in the Barnim region, northeast Germany. Geomorphology 250, 41-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.07.045

Böse, M., Hebenstreit, R., Hardt, J., 2014: A deformation till at Hohuan Shan, Taiwan. Quaternary International 321, 55-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.11.019

Hebenstreit, R., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kubik, P.W., Schlüchter, C., Böse, M., 2011. Lateglacial and early Holocene surface exposure ages of glacial boulders in the Taiwanese high mountain range. Quaternary Science Reviews 30 (3-4), 298-311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.11.002

Hebenstreit, R., Böse, M., Murray, A., 2006. Late Pleistocene and early Holocene glaciations in Taiwanese mountains. Quaternary International 147 (1), 76-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2005.09.009

Hebenstreit, R., 2006. Present and former equilibrium line altitudes in the Taiwanese high mountain range. Quaternary International 147 (1), 70-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2005.09.008

Hebenstreit, R., Böse, M., 2003. Geomorphological evidence for a Late Pleistocene glaciation in the high mountains of Taiwan dated with age estimates by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL). Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, N.F. Suppl.-Vol. 130, 31-49.

Book chapter

Böse, M., Hebenstreit, R., 2011. Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Glaciations in the Taiwanese High Mountain Ranges. In: Ehlers, J., Gibbard, P.L. and Hughes, P.D. (Eds.), Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology - A Closer Look. Developments in Quaternary Science, 15. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 1003-1012. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-53447-7.00071-4

Edited journal volume

Bebermeier, W., Hebenstreit, R., Kaiser, E., Krause, J. (Eds.), 2012. Landscape Archaeology. Proceedings of the International Conference held in Berlin, 6th - 8th June 2012. eTopoi - Journal for Ancient Studies, Special Volume 3. http://journal.topoi.org/index.php/etopoi/issue/view/4

Dissertation

Hebenstreit, R., 2012.Geomorphological studies on the late Pleistocene and early Holocene glaciation in selected high mountain ranges in Taiwan. PhD Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin. III, 147 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-8856

Selected conference contributions

Hebenstreit, R., 2023. Cirques and glacial boulders in the Taiwanese mountain range ‒ a precious and scenic heritage of a rare old landscape. 2023 International conservation conference, Taipei.

Böse, M., Hebenstreit, R., Hardt, J., 2023. The lowermost ELA in the Central Mountain Range of Taiwan during the LGM - dated with TCN. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, EGU23-85.

Hebenstreit, R., Hardt, J., Böse, M., 2022. First evidence for an LGM glaciation in the Central Mountain Range, Taiwan - dated with terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides. Deuqua 2022, Potsdam.

Liu, S.-H., Tseng, C.-H., Li, Y., Hebenstreit, R., Böse, M., Frechen, M., 2019. Morphological and geochronological investigations (OSL) in the Miaoli Tablelands (NW Taiwan). 20th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Dublin, Ireland, P-2886.

Hebenstreit, R., Frechen, M., 2017. Fine silt components in Taiwanese sediments – indicators for long range aeolian transport, International Conference in Loess Research, Gorgan, Iran.

Hebenstreit, R., 2016. Quaternary mineral dust deposits in Taiwan - a new palaeoclimate archive. DUST2016 - 2nd International Conference on Atmospheric Dust, Castellaneta Marina, Italy. Scientific Research Abstracts Vol. 5, p. 74.

Hebenstreit, R., Hardt, J., Böse, M., 2015. New evidence for Quaternary glaciations in Taiwan and a recalculation of the equilibrium line altitude. XIX INQUA Congress, Nagoya, Japan, p. T01428.

Tseng, C.-H., Hebenstreit, R., Lüthgens, C., Böse, M., Frechen, M., Liu, S.-H., 2013. Genesis, geomorphology and development of the Puli Basin, Taiwan: Review and new aspects. EGU General Assembly 2013. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vienna, p. EGU2013-2846.

Hebenstreit, R., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kubik, P. et al., 2010. Latest Pleistocene and early Holocene surface exposure ages of glacial boulders in the Taiwanese high mountain range.), EGU General Assembly 2010. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vienna, p. EGU2010-12229.

Hebenstreit, R., 2004. Geomorphological studies on the Late Pleistocene Glaciation in the High Mountains of Taiwan. Abstracts of the Taiwan-German Quaternary Symposium, Taipei, p. 5.

Hebenstreit, R., Böse, M., 2001. Late Pleistocene Glaciation in the High Mountain Range of Taiwan, Dated by Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL). Fifth International Conference on Geomorphology. Transactions of the Japanese Geomorphological Union, Tokyo, pp. C-88.

Lanz, J.K., Hebenstreit, R., Jaumann, R. (2000): Martian channels and their geomorphologic development as revealed by MOLA. The Second International Conference On Mars Polar Science and Exploration, Reykjavik, Iceland, p. 4026.

Public presentations

Hebenstreit, R., 2016. Quaternary mineral aeolian dust deposits in Taiwan and their potentials as a new paleoclimate archive. National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan, 28.12.2016

Hebenstreit, R., 2014. Die spätpleistozäne und frühholozäne Vergletscherung der Hochgebirge Taiwans – glazialgeomorphologische und geochronologische Befunde sowie ihre paläoklimatischen Implikationen. Kolloquium des Geographischen Instituts der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 20.05.2014

Hebenstreit, R., 2011. Geomorphological studies on the late Pleistocene and early Holocene glaciation in selected high mountain ranges in Taiwan. National Taiwan University, 28.10.2011

Hebenstreit, R., 2008. Das Ende der Eiszeit in Taiwan - Felsoberflächendatierungen von spätglazialen und frühholozänen glazialen Blöcken im zentralen Nanhuta Shan. Kolloquium des Geographischen Instituts der Freien Universität Berlin, 20.05.2008

Diploma Thesis

Hebenstreit, R., 1999. Glacial landforms in the north-eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau between Kunlun Shan and Fenghuo Shan (Qinghai Province). Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.