Function and Responsibilities:

EU-Consultant Projects and International Affairs

Career:

• Since 08/20    Consultant at GFZ Projects and International Affairs
  
• 01/20-07/20    Postdoc at GFZ Potsdam, DFG-Eigene Stelle Project TEPH-ME
• 12/18-12/19    Postdoc at GFZ Potsdam, financed by DFG and GFZ
  
• 06/18-11/18    Postdoc (Visiting Scholar) at University of Cambridge, Department of Geography (host: Prof. Christine Lane), Postdoc grant from German Academic Exchange Service DAAD
• 06/16-05/18    Postdoc at University of Geneva, Department of Earth Sciences (host: Prof. Daniel Ariztegui), Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship project “IRONLAKE”
• 05/15-05/16    Research Associate at GFZ Potsdam, DFG-financed project “CLEAR – Holocene Climatic Events of Northern Arabia”
• 12/14-05/15    Guest Scientist at GFZ Potsdam within the ICDP (International Continental Drilling Program) Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project
• 09/10-12/14    PhD Student at GFZ Potsdam, financed by German Science Foundation within the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project
• 03/09-09/10    Student Assistant at GFZ Potsdam

Education:

09/10-10/15    PhD in Geology, University of Potsdam, Institute for Earth and Environmental Sciences and GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam, Section 5.2 – Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, PhD thesis: “Reconstructing climate from the Dead Sea sediment record using high-resolution micro-facies analyses”

10/03-08/10    Diploma (Master-equivalent) in Geography (major), Hydrology and Meteorology, Technical University of Dresden, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Diploma thesis: “Micro-facies and geochemical investigations of laminated lateglacial lake sediments from Rehwiese/Berlin“

Projects:

• ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP)
• CLEAR - Holocene climatic events in northern Arabia
  
• PALEX - Paleoclimate Research in the Middle East
• TEPH-ME - Cryptotephrochronology in the Eastern Mediterranean
  

Awards:

• 2019           DFG Research Grant for project "TEPH-ME"
  
• 2018           Postdoc Fellowship German Academic Exchange Service DAAD
• 2017           Early-Career Scientist Poster Award, Int. Meeting of Sedimentology Toulouse
• 2016           Friedrich- Robert-Helmert Prize for best PhD thesis of the GFZ 2015 by FFGFZ e.V.
• 2016           Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for project “IRONLAKE” at the University of Geneva
• 2015           IAS Student Travel Grant to participate at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna
• 2013           Adrian Gill Travel Award to participate at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna