My interests lie in the processes that interact to shape the surface of the earth. Currently, I focus on combining field work and various geochronological techniques with analogue models to study the interaction between actively uplifting folds and mixed bedrock-alluvial rivers. In addition, I study records of late Pleistocene uplift of active detachment folds in the foreland of the Tien Shan in Northwest China and combine them with rates of decadal deformation obtained by interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR). Finally, I used uranium-lead dating on detrital zircon for a collaborative project of sediment provenance in the Pamir-Tian Shan collision zone.