Prof. Dr. Edier Vicente Aristizabal Giraldo

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsGeology,Geomorphology
KeywordsColombia, Mountainous terrains, debris flow, Landslide, Natural hazards

Current contact address

CountryColombia
CityMedellin
InstitutionUniversidad Nacional de Colombia
InstituteDepartamento de Geociencias y Medio Ambiente

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Oliver KorupInstitut für Umweltwissenschaften und Geographie, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2023

Programme(s)

2023Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2025Nieto, Sara and Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier and Ozturk, Ugur: Coupled evolution of a city and landslides. In: Environmental Research Letters, 20, 2025, 054001
2025Palacio, Johnnatan and Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier and Mergili, Martin and Echeverr{\'\i}, Oscar: Exploring best-fit parameters for propagation modeling of shallow landslides, using Flow-R. In: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2025, 105739
2025Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier and Correa, Daniel and Garc{\'\i}a, Carolina and Valencia, Ana Mar{\'\i}a and Zabaleta, Erluan: Geohazard: base de datos por movimientos en masa y avenidas torrenciales en Colombia y el departamento de Antioquia.. In: Ciencia e Ingenier{\'\i}a Neogranadina, 35, 2025,
2025Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier and Korup, Oliver: Linking landslide patterns to transient landscapes in the northern Colombian Andes. In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 130, 2025, e2024JF008027
2025Cordoba, Johnnatan Palacio and Mergili, Martin and ARISTIZ{\'A}BAL, Edier and Echeverri, Oscar: The basal friction in the modeling of the propagation of shallow landslides--debris flow using r. avaflow. In: Revista de la Asociaci{\'o}n Geol{\'o}gica Argentina, 82, 2025, 100--115
2023Garc{\'\i}a, Derly Estefanny G{\'o}mez and Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier and Garc{\'\i}a, Edwin: Influencia de la lluvia antecedente en los deslizamientos en los Andes Colombianos. In: Revista de la Asociaci{\'o}n Geol{\'o}gica Argentina, 80, 2023, 179--194
2023G{\'o}mez, Derly and Garc{\'\i}a, Edwin F and Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier: Spatial and temporal landslide distributions using global and open landslide databases. In: Natural Hazards, 117, 2023, 25--55
2022Cullen, Cheila Avalon and Al Suhili, Rafea and Aristizabal, Edier: A landslide numerical factor derived from CHIRPS for shallow rainfall triggered landslides in Colombia. In: Remote Sensing, 14, 2022, 2239
2022Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier and Garcia, Edwin F and Marin, Roberto J and G{\'o}mez, Federico and Guzm{\'a}n-Mart{\'\i}nez, Juan: Rainfall-intensity effect on landslide hazard assessment due to climate change in north-western Colombian Andes. In: Revista Facultad de Ingenier{\'\i}a Universidad de Antioquia, 2022, 51--66
2022Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier and Ria{\~n}o, Felipe and Jim{\'e}nez-Ortiz, Juli{\'a}n: Umbrales de lluvia como detonante de movimientos en masa en el piedemonte de la cordillera Central en los Andes colombianos. In: Bolet{\'\i}n de Geolog{\'\i}a, 44, 2022, 183--197
2021Mart{\'\i}nez-Carvajal, Hern{\'a}n Eduardo and Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier and Garc{\'\i}a-Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edwin Fabi{\'a}n: A case study on causation of the landslide on 26 October 2016 in the northern Colombian Andes. In: Dyna, 88, 2021, 22--30
2021Marin, Roberto J and Garc{\'\i}a, Edwin F and Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier: Assessing the effectiveness of TRIGRS for predicting unstable areas in a tropical mountain basin (Colombian Andes). In: Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 39, 2021, 2329--2346
2020Marin, Roberto J and Garc{\'\i}a, Edwin F and Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier: Effect of basin morphometric parameters on physically-based rainfall thresholds for shallow landslides. In: Engineering Geology, 278, 2020, 105855
2020Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier and S{\'a}nchez, Oscar: Spatial and temporal patterns and the socioeconomic impacts of landslides in the tropical and mountainous Colombian Andes. In: Disasters, 44, 2020, 596--618
2019Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier and L{\'o}pez, Sandra and S{\'a}nchez, Oscar and V{\'a}squez, Mariana and Rinc{\'o}n, Felipe and Ruiz-V{\'a}squez, Diana and Restrepo, Sebasti{\'a}n and Valencia, Johan Sebasti{\'a}n: Evaluaci{\'o}n de la amenaza por movimientos en masa detonados por lluvias para una regi{\'o}n de los Andes colombianos estimando la probabilidad espacial, temporal, y magnitud. In: Boletin de geologia, 41, 2019, 85--105
2019Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edwin Fabi{\'a}n Garc{\'\i}a and Giraldo, Edier Vicente Aristizabal and S{\'a}nchez, Roberto Jos{\'e} Mar{\'\i}n and Mart{\'\i}nez, Juan Carlos Guzm{\'a}n: Implementaci{\'o}n del modelo TRIGRS con an{\'a}lisis de confiabilidad para la evaluaci{\'o}n de la amenaza a movimientos en masa superficiales detonados por lluvia. In: TecnoL{\'o}gicas, 22, 2019, 111--129
2019Mar{\'\i}n, Roberto J and Garc{\'\i}a-Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edwin and Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier: Rainfall thresholds for shallow landslides based on physical models: application in a sub-basin of the Valle de Aburr{\'a} (Colombia)•. In: Dyna, 86, 2019, 312--322
2019Bedoya-Soto, Juan Mauricio and Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier and Carmona, Alejandra M and Poveda, Germ{\'a}n: Seasonal shift of the diurnal cycle of rainfall over Medellin's Valley, Central Andes of Colombia (1998--2005). In: Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 2019, 92
2016Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier and V{\'e}lez, Jaime Ignacio and Mart{\'\i}nez, Hern{\'a}n Eduardo and Jaboyedoff, Michel: SHIA\_Landslide: a distributed conceptual and physically based model to forecast the temporal and spatial occurrence of shallow landslides triggered by rainfall in tropical and mountainous basins. In: Landslides, 13, 2016, 497--517
2005Aristiz{\'a}bal, Edier and Roser, Barry and Yokota, Shuichiro: Tropical chemical weathering of hillslope deposits and bedrock source in the Aburr{\'a} Valley, northern Colombian Andes. In: Engineering Geology, 81, 2005, 389--406