Prof. Dr. Achim Brauer
Building
C,
Room
324 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Research Interests:
- Annually laminated lake sediments as climate archives
- Rapid climate changes in the past: causes, dynamics, impacts
- Regional aspects of past climate changes
- Causes of natural climate variability
- Extreme weather events during climate change
- Man – Climate interactions
Career:
2007– Head of Section Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, GFZ Potsdam
2010– adjunct Professorship at the Institute of Geosciences, University Potsdam
1999–2007 Senior Scientist at GFZ Potsdam1998–1999 Postdoc at University Aix-Marseille III, France
1993–1998 Postdoc, GFZ Potsdam
1991–1993 PhD student, University of Trier
1991–1991 Project Manager, Weicksel Consulting Engineers, Isny, Germany
1990–1991 Research Assistant, Trier University
1989–1990 Postgraduate student at Helsinki University, Finland
Education:
2000 Habilitation in Geology, Potsdam University
1994 Dissertation in Geology, Trier University
1988 Diploma in Physical Geography, Trier University
Projects:
Virtual Helmholtz Insitute ICLEABaltRap - Proxy-Environment interactions in times of rapid change
PALEX - Palaeoclimate research in the Near East
PalMod - Palaeo Modelling
CAHOL - Climate reconstruction in Central Asia
StRATEGy - Climate reconstruction in NW-Argentina