2024 official retirement, now part-time scientific assistant
2004 Habilitation (Universität Potsdam), 'Magnetostratigraphy as a tool for the reconstruction of geomagnetic field variations and paleoclimatic processes'
1990 Dr. rer. nat. , Universität Bremen, 'High resolution magnetostratigraphy of late-Quaternary Arctic marine sediments'
1985 Diplom in Geophysics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany: 'Paleomagnetic investigation of Paleozoic rocks from the Hohes Venn, Germany'
Research Boards and Committees:
Member of the working group 'Geomagnetics' of the German Geophysical Society (DGG)