Professor Andreas Baas

Professor Andreas Baas is a wide-ranging aeolian geomorphologist with current research focus on: 1) the development and dynamics of dunes and dune fields on Earth and Mars, 2) the physics of aeolian sand transport by turbulence in boundary layer flows. This research is supported by a broad interest in novel instrumentation and techniques for field measurement and data analysis, remote sensing, and computer simulation modelling.

Andreas holds a BSc and MSc from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and earned his PhD at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, supported by a Research Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). During his last year in Los Angeles he was an Adjunct Professor at California State University San Bernardino.

He is an associate editor for Earth Surface Dynamics, edited the Aeolian as well as the Quantitative Modelling volumes of Elsevier’s Treatise on Geomorphology, and has reviewed 150+ manuscripts for 50+ international peer-reviewed journals. Andreas is a member of NERC's Peer-Review College and has reviewed grant proposal for 15+ national and international funders.

His research is supported by The Leverhulme Trust, The Nuffield Foundation, and the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). To date he has published 40+ research articles and 10+ book chapters, and his scientific work has been cited more than 3500 times.

Research

• desert dune hazards due to climate change
• microplastics transport by wind in coastal dune environments
• sand transport dynamics and bedforms on Mars
• dune interactions in barchan swarms
• aeolian sand transport by boundary layer turbulence

Teaching

Undergraduate

• 5SSG2023 Earth Surface Environments
• 5SSG2064 Global Environmental Issues 

Postgraduate

• 7SSGN110 Environmental Data Analysis 

PhD supervision

Andreas welcomes research students on a range of topics, including:

• Desert dune hazards under climate change
• Dune interactions in barchan swarms
• Sand transport dynamics and bedforms on Mars
• Micro-plastics in coastal dune environments

Current PhD students

• Dominic Robson
• Lucie Delobel

Past PhD students

• Zoë Lee (now at Planet Mark)
• Na Yan (now at University of Leeds)

Further details

See Andreas' research profile