{"id":63,"date":"2025-07-24T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/iss-project\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:31:26","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/iss-project\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr. Jacob Hardt<\/em> (all my publications<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am a Physical Geographer with a special fascination for the landscapes of the north-central European young morainic areas and the processes that shaped them. I have been dealing with this topic since my studies and have deepened it in my dissertation project, in which I dealt with geomorphological (Hardt et al., 2015<\/a>) and geochronological aspects of the last glacial cycle in northern Germany (Hardt & B\u00f6se, 2016<\/a>; Hardt et al., 2016<\/a>; Hardt 2017<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In particular, I work with the qualitative evaluation of digital terrain models. I also map in the field and analyze sediments, supported by geophysical and geochronological investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last few years, I have increasingly begun to focus on the interrelationships between inland ice sheets and underground geological structures<\/strong> from a geomorphological perspective. Northern Germany offers an ideal study area for this (Hardt et al., 2021<\/a>; Hardt et al., 2024<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from this subject area, I have also been working for many years with archaeologists from various institutions on geoarchaeological issues. This included the high-resolution investigation of a Roman-Germanic battlefield<\/strong> (so-called „Harzhorn incident“ dating to 235 CE in Lower Saxony, Germany) in order to better understand and predict the degree of corrosion of archaeological iron objects (Hardt et al., 2025<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Further work took us to the highlands of Ethiopia<\/strong> for geoarchaeological studies (in context of the DFG SPP2143 Entangled Africa<\/a>). There, we investigated potential past mobility axes using historical maps and reports (Hardt et al., 2023<\/a>), characterized archaeological find areas (Hardt et al., 2023<\/a>; Pfeiffer et al., 2023<\/a>), and studied the geomorphological impact of human movement(Busch et al., 2021<\/a>; Nir et al., 2021<\/a>; Nir et al., 2022<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Northern Ethiopian Highlands: Pathways and gullies, with the Adwa Mountains in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The most recent project took us to fascinating and beautiful landscapes of Tadjoura in Djibouti<\/strong> (Hardt et al., 2026<\/a>), where we are still trying to understand settlement structures and cult sites in relation to the landscape and paleoclimatic changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When you work in Djibouti… impressions from Tadjoura (2024).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

I was lucky enough to take part in a high mountain expedition in Taiwan<\/strong>, where we mapped glacial landforms in the Nenggao Range of the Central Mountain Range and dated glacigenic boulders with cosmogenic nuclides (Hebenstreit et al., 2025<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taiwanese high mountain expedition (Nengao Range)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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All of my research papers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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