Function and Responsibilities:

Research associate

Research Interests:

• Annually laminated lake sediments
• Late Quaternary climate change
  
• Abrupt climate changes in the past
• Extreme events
• Tephrochronology
  

Career:

• Since 07/2022          Postdoc at GFZ Potsdam
  
• 04/2018 - 06/2022    PhD student at GFZ Potsdam
• 12/2017 - 03/2018    Research Assistant at GFZ Potsdam
• 07/2017 - 11/2017    Student Assistant at GFZ Potsdam

Education:

• 04/2018 - 06/2022 PhD in Paleoclimatology, University of Potsdam and GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam. PhD thesis: Abrupt climate changes and extreme events in two different varved lake sediment records
• 11/2014 - 04/2018 M.Sc. Geosciences (specialisation Geology), University of Potsdam. Master thesis: Reconstructing climatic conditions at the last Glacial – Interglacial – Transition using varved lake sediments from Lake Gościąż (central Poland)
• 10/2011 - 11/2014 B.Sc. Geosciences, University of Potsdam. Bachelor thesis: Provenance of the Baragoi Gorge sediments in the eastern Suguta Valley, Kenya

Projects:

• Virtual Helmholtz Insitute ICLEA
• PALEX - Palaeoclimate research in the Near East
• BaltRap - The Baltic Sea and its southern Lowlands: proxy - environment interactions in times of Rapid change

Awards:

• 2019    INQUA travel grant for the 20th INQUA Congress, Dublin