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University

1999 Diploma in Geology at the University of Bremen, Germany

2001 DAAD scholarship at the University of Barcelona, Spain: methodological work on X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis

2004 PhD at the Department of Geosciences at the University of Bremen: "Reconstruction of the sedimentary history offshore NW Africa: Application of core-logging tools.".

2004 - 2005 Project-Manager EU Project Paleostudies

2005 - 2016 Assistant Curation and Lab Manager for the ECORD Science Operator (ECORD: European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling)

since 2016 Superintendent of the Bremen Core Repository (BCR)

Courses

1999 NEBROC (Netherlands-Bremen-Oceanography-Cooperation):"Introductory Course in Marine Sciences"

2000 NEBROC: Advanced Course: "The Global Carbon Cycle - Present, Past and Future"

2000 NEBROC: Combined Advanced Courses: "Paleoceanography of the Cenozoic" and "Time-series analysis"

2001 ECOLMAS (European Graduate College in Marine Sciences): Advanced Course: "Abrupt climate change" (lecturer)

2004 PROPER (Proxies in Paleoceanography Education and Research): "Proxies used in Paleoceanography: basic and new developments" (lecturer)

2004 HOLIVAR (Holocene Climate Variability): "Quantitative climate reconstructions and data-model comparisons"

2007 ICDP Scientific Drilling Training Course

Conferences

2000 OCME2 (Oceanography, Climate Research and Marine Ecology): "The Quaternary Sediment Record off West-Africa"

2000 JGOFS-Symposium: (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study): "Biogeochemical Cycles"

2001 MARGINS-meeting, Kiel

2002 EGS (European Geophysical Society), Nice

2004 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon

2004 EuroForum for Scientific Earth Drilling (ICDP/IODP)

2004 EGU (European Geosciences Union), Nice

2004 8th ICP (International Conference on Paleoceanography), Biarritz

2006 EuroForum, Cardiff (IODP)

2007 IODP Topical Symposium, Bremen

2007 International Conference and annual GV meeting

2007 Workshop: Response of North African Ecosystems to abrupt Climate Change, MARUM, Bremen

2009 EGU (European Geosciences Union), Vienna

2009 Workshop: Beyond 2013 - the Future of European Scientific Drilling Research, Vienna

2010 EGU (European Geosciences Union), Vienna

Expeditions

1996 VH 96/1, RV Victor Hensen, Canary Islands

1996 M 37/1, RV Meteor, (CANIGO) Canary Islands

1998 M 41/3+4, RV Meteor, Brazil - Canary Islands

1999 M 44/3, RV Meteor, Red Sea - Eastern Mediterranean

1999 ENAM 99, RV Pelagia, Eastern North Atlantic

2001 POS 272, RV Poseidon, Canary Islands

2004 IODP Exp. 302 Arctic Ocean, Onshore Science Party

2005 M 63/1, RV Meteor, SW Indian Ocean

2005 IODP Exp. 310, DP Hunter, Tahiti, French Polynesia

2008 M 75/2, RV Meteor, SW Indian Ocean

2009 IODP Exp. 313, L/B Kayd, New Jersey, USA

2010 IODP Exp. 325 Great Barrier Reef, Onshore Science Party

2013 IODP Exp. 347, Greatship Manisha, Baltic Sea Basin Paleoenvironment

2015 IODP Exp. 357, RRS James Cook, Atlantis Massif, Atlantic Ocean

2016 IODP Exp. 364, L/B Myrtle, Chicxulub Impact Crater, Gulf of Mexico

2018 IODP Exp. 381, Gulf of Corinth, Onshore Science Party

2024 IODP Exp. 389, Hawaiian Drowned Reefs, Onshore Science Party

2025 IODP³ Exp. 501, L/B Robert, New England Hydrogeology, USA