Dr. Rik Tjallingii
Building
C,
Room
326 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Function and Responsibilities:
Leading Laboratory for XRF Element Scanning
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- DFG TephroBridge (SPP - ICDP) - Bringing the eastern Mediterranean chronology using the tephro-stratigraphy of the Eastern Anatolian Volcanic Provenance, with Post-Doc Becca. Kearney, Markus Schwab, and Achim Brauer.
- DFG WarmHydro (SPP - ICDP) - Paleohydrological changes in Lake Van and the Dead Sea during the MIS6-5 transition (135-125 ka ago), with PhD Anaïs Urban, Cecile Blanchet, and Dirk Sachse.
- DFG Rain6K - Paleohydrological changes of Lake Babugaya (Ethyopia) during the Holocene, with PhD Björn Hohmeier, Cecile Blanchet, and Dirk Sachse
- ERC-STEEP - Lago Grande di Monticchio
Tools and apps for XRF data processing
- Xelerate software