The section works on both third-party funded and LIAG funded projects. The work is divided among the method-specific research fields of the section and the topics in the main research areas of the institute.

Third-party funded projects

• LUNAR - The Last Pulse – dating the youngest deformation in the Alps with ESR thermochronometry Details
  (DFG)
• Periadriatic - Identifying fossil fault activity along the eastern Periadriatic Fault system Details
  (DFG)
• Cenozoic Fossil deposits in the Atbara-Valley, Sudan Details
  (DFG: 387794796)
• Investigating the Deep Roots of Human Behaviour  Details
  (the Arts and Humanities Research Council project led by Professor Larry Barham (University of Liverpool))
• Constraining the role of erosion in feedbacks between tectonics and climate: Quaternary evolution of the Japanese Alps Details
  (Swiss National Foundation Ambizione Project by Dr. Georgina King)
• Northern Iranian loess and its palaeoclimatic implicationDetails
  (DFG: FR877/26-2)
• Forest steppes of central Mongolia Details
  (DFG: FR 877/32-1)
• CROSSTRAT – Crosschecking of stratigraphic data from continental deposits in Sardinia and the reliability of radiometric data
  (SEQS-INQUA)

Internal projects

• ESR-Dating of sediments
• Thermochronometric studies
• Scientific drilling Garding and pushed moraines in Schleswig-Holstein (LANU SH)
• Fluviatile Late Pleistocene dynamics at Inn and Isar (GD Bayern)
• Saalean age river dynamics in Sachsen-Anhalt (GD Sachsen-Anhalt)
• Paleo earthquakes in Lower-Saxony and Sachsen-Anhalt (LUH, BGR)

Third-party funded projects (finished)

• Weichselian glaciation along the southwestern Baltic Sea Coast  Details
  (DFG: FR877/23-1)