Function and Responsibilities:

• Senior Scientist & Head of lab for tephra analytics 

Research Interests:

• Sedimentology, Limnogeology
• Lake sediments as archives of climate variability
• Paleoenvironmental and Climate Studies
• Extreme Events
  
• Climate and Societies

Career:

• since 01/2012 GFZ, Senior Scientist / Coordinator at the GFZ for:
  Helmholtz Virtual Institute ICLEA (VI for Integrated Climate and Landscape Evolution Analyses)
  Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM (Regional climate change)
  Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP)
• 04/2008 - 12/2011 GFZ, Scientific staff member at the Scientific Executive Board
• 11/1998-03/2008 GFZ (with interruptions), Research Assistant / Coordinator
       10/2007 - 03/2008 Researcher at the Leibniz Center for Surface Process and Climate Studies (Univ. Potsdam/GFZ )
       07/2004 - 03/2005 Researcher at the Uxbridge University London
  

• 2006 - 2012 Guest professorship for Sedimentology / Stratigraphy, Dept. of Geodynamics and Sedimentology, Univ. of Vienna
• 2000 - 2002 Guest Lecturer University of Potsdam, Sedimentology

Education:

• 1994 - 1998 AWI Potsdam / Uni Potsdam, Dr. rer. nat. Thesis: “Reconstruction of the Late Quaternary climatic and environmental history of the Schirmacher Oasis and the Wohlthat Massif (East Antarctica)”
• 1993 - 1994 Geologist at the engineering company 'Kühn Geoconsulting' Bonn – Berlin
• 1987 - 1993 Study of Geology / Paleontology at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Germany) Diploma Thesis: "Investigations in order to internal deformation and epi-metamorphosis at selected cores (North German - Polish Caledonides) and rock samples (Massif Brabant Caledonides)."
• 1987 Consultant project planning, Brown coal mine Bitterfeld, work unit Geotechnical Engineering Halle/Saale
• 1985-1987 Basic military service (air force / private first class, radar)
• 1985 Exploration deep miner, potassium salt mine Rossleben (South Harz district), Germany

Projects:

• TephroMed project (PI)
  
• ICDP – Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project DSDDP (Coordinator)
• DFG Trilateralprojekt PALEX (Coordinator)
• Helmholtz-Verbund "Regionale Klimaänderungen" REKLIM
• TERENO-NE (Coordinator)
• Helmholtz-Virtuelles Institut ICLEA (Coordinator)
  
  
• Forschungsplattform zum Klimawandel "Klimaplattform"
• Klimanavigator
• Deutsches KlimaKonsortium DKK

Research Boards and Committees:

2013-2016 Elected member Scientific Council of the GFZ

2022-2023 Elected member Staff Council of the GFZ

2023-2026 Elected member Staff Council of the GFZ