Jan Raack

Jan is a Marie Curie Research Fellow from Germany and has worked at the OU since March of this year. Jan’s research is into surface activity on today’s Mars, focused on sediment mass movements triggered by surface volatiles, and on so-called ‘dust devils’, which are sediment entrained whirlwinds. He began at the Institut für Planetologie in Münster, Germany, in March 2015, before moving to England to join a geological engineering company. For Jan’s studies he works intensively with remote sensing datasets from NASA and ESA missions to Mars, as well as laboratory work with a Martian pressure chamber. He has also undertaken comparative fieldworks in the deserts of China and Morocco. Jan has a young daughter (9 months old) and in his free time enjoys listening to rock music, cooking and hiking.

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