M.Sc. Debayan Chatterjee

Department of Earth Sciences

Institute of Geological Sciences

Tectonics and Sedimentary Systems

PhD Candidate

Address

Malteserstr. 74-100
Room B 242
12249 Berlin

debayan.chatterjee@fu-berlin.de

Employment

Since 01/2025	*Doctoral Researcher (WiMi)* at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Sedimentary Systems (Dr. Stefanie Tofelde and Prof. Dr. Anne Bernhardt)
10/2022 – 12/2024	*Research Assistant (HiWi)* at GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics Section (Dr. Benjamin Brede and Prof. Dr. Martin Herold)
04/2022 – 12/2024	*Teaching Assistant (HiWi)* at GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences and Institute of Geosciences, Universität Potsdam (Prof. Dr. Martin Herold and Dr. Benjamin Brede)
08/2019 – 02/2020	Project Associate at CSIR – National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India

Education

Since 01/2025	PhD at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Sedimentary Systems (Dr. Stefanie Tofelde and Prof. Dr. Anne Bernhardt)
11/2020 – 03/2025	MSc Remote Sensing, geoInformation, and Visualization at the Institute of Geosciences, Universität Potsdam (Prof. Dr. Manfred R. Strecker and Prof. Dr. Bodo Bookhagen)
07/2017 – 05/2019	MSc Geophysics at the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (Prof. Dr. Sudha Agrahari)
07/2013 – 04/2016	BSc Physics at the Department of Physics, St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi, India

Research interests

I investigate how rivers laterally migrate over decadal to millennial timescales, shaping floodplains, driving valley widening, and influencing long-term landscape evolution.

My current work focuses on understanding the controls and mechanisms of river bank erosion by combining a global compilation of erosion rates with remote sensing analyses and analog landscape evolution experiments.

Methods

Generation of high-resolution digital surface models using photogrammetry and structure-from-motion (SfM) techniques
Quantitative analysis of digital topographic data
Analog modeling of landscape evolution