Dr. Rik Tjallingii

Group Leader
Dr. Rik Tjallingii
Building C, Room 326 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam

Function and Responsibilities:

Leading Laboratory for XRF Element Scanning

ORCID

Researchgate  

Research Interests:

  • Quaternary environmental and climatic reconstructions
  • Quantification of past climatic proxies
  • Bridging-scales: Compositional variations of sediment cores, layers and grains
  • Non-destructive and high-resolution sediment core analyses
  • Development of calibration and statistical modelling techniques for geochemical data

Career:

  • 2025                Head of Working Group Terrestrial Climate Archives (former section 4.3),
  • 2024                Interim Section Head, Section 4.3 Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, GFZ-Potsdam
  • 2018-2024      Head of the Laboratory for XRF Element Scanning, Section 4.3 Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, GFZ-Potsdam
  • 2014-2018      Senior scientist, GFZ Section 4.3 Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, GFZ-Potsdam
  • 2009-2013      Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Marine Geology, NIOZ (Texel, The Netherlands)
  • 2007-2009      Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Sedimentology and Coastal Geology, Kiel University (Kiel, Germany)

Education:

  • 2003-2007      PhD at MARUM, University of Bremen (Bremen, Germany)
  • 2007-2009      Study geology at Utrecht University, (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Projects:

Current reseach Projects

Tools and apps for XRF data processing

  • Xelerate software

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