Staff

Function and Responsibilities:

Doctoral researcher supervised by Prof. Dr. Dirk Sachse within the RESET project

Research Interests:

• carbon cycle
• (paleo-) environmental and climatic changes
• human-environment interactions
• environmental changes in the polar regions

Career:

• 04/2025 - 09/2025: Student Assistant at GFZ Helmholtz Cente for Geosciences, Section 4.6 Geomorphologie, Laboratory for stable isotopes for sediments and water
• 07/2024 - 03/2025: Student Assistant at Alfred Wegener Institute, Section: Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Group: Past Climate Change
• 02/2024 - 07/2024: Student Assistant at Alfred Wegener Institute, Section: Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Group: High-latitude biodiversity

Education:

since 2026: PhD at GFZ Potsdam

2022-2025: M.Sc. Geographical Environmental Research, Freie Universität Berlin

• Master´s Thesis: "Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Fielding Lake, Alaska, Over the Last 26 ka Using Sedimentary Ancient DNA and XRF Data" (Alfred Wegener Institute, Dr. Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring)
• 2023: University of Gothenburg, Erasmus+ semester (Göteborg, Sweden)

2019-2022: B.Sc. Geographical Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin

• Bachelor Thesis: Influence of human settlement on sedimentation at lake Tiefer See, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (GFZ, Prof. Dr. Achim Brauer)
• 2021: University of Gothenburg, Erasmus+ semester (Göteborg, Sweden)

Projects:

RESET – Roadmaps to Scalable Carbon Dioxide Removal by Enhanced Silicate Weathering

In collaboration with Patrick Frings (GFZ, Section 3.2) and Pia-Johanna Emma Schweizer from Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS), funded by the BMFTR as part of the CDRterra.