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Curriculum Vitae

- June 24^th 1979: Born in Heidelberg, Germany

- Summer of 1998: Abitur at Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium, Sandhausen

- September 1998 - July 1999: Military service at the Nibelungenkaserne, Walldürn

- October 1999 – June 2003: Student of Geology at the Geol.-Pal. Institute, University of Heidelberg

- June 2003 – July 2004: Diploma thesis & mapping: “Mud Mounds and Associated Facies in the Upper Carboniferous of the Pisuerga Area (Cantabrian Mts., N-Spain)”, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Bechstädt and Dr. Veselovsky

- July 2004 – September 2004: Diploma exams (majors: Sedimentology, Environmental Geochemistry; minors: Applied Geology, Regional & Historical Geology)

- September 2004 – December 2004: Scientific Assistant in the Sedimentology working group (Prof. Dr. Bechstädt), University of Heidelberg

- January 2005 - December 2007: PhD student within the International Graduate College “ Proxies in Earth History” EUROPROX, project 8: “Rapid redox changes across major climate transitions – impact on the preservation of paleoceanogrphic proxies”, under supervision of PD Dr. Kasten (University of Bremen/AWI Bremerhaven) and Prof. Dr. De Lange (Utrecht University), and as a member of the working group Hydrogeology & Geochemistry (Prof. Dr. Schulz)

- May - June 2007: Research stay at School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, UK (Prof. Dr. Wagner, Dr. Poulton)

- September - November 2007: Research stay at Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands (Prof. Dr. de Lange)

- December 2007: Submission of PhD thesis "Inorganic geochemical redox proxies - Indicators for rapid paleoenvironmental changes and related diagenetic processes in recent and ancient marine sediments"

- February 2008: PhD thesis defence "Deep-water redox changes during Late Cretaceous black shale formation"

- January 2008 - July 2010: Postdoc in the group of Microbiogeochemistry (Prof. Dr. Brumsack), ICBM, University of Oldenburg. Topical focus: Inorganic geochemistry of recent to Cretaceous sediments of the Arctic Ocean (Lomonosov and Mendeleev Ridge) and Bering Sea, taken during IODP Exp. 302 (Arctic Coring Expedition), Polarstern Exp. ARK XXIII/3, and IODP Exp. 323 (Bering Sea Paleoceanography)

- Since August 2010: Guest Member of Staff (DFG Research Fellowship) in the Biogeochemistry group (Dr. Poulton, Prof. Dr. Wagner), School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University. Topical focus: Inorganic geochemistry of Pliocene-Pleistocene sediments from the Bering Sea (IODP Exp. 323), especially feedbacks between nutrients, productivity, carbon burial and diagenesis.

Research Cruises

RV Meteor Cruise M 63/1 (Cape Town - Cape Town), "AFRIDEEP", 24.01.-30.03.2005, South-western Indian Ocean (deep-sea fans of rivers Limpopo, Tugela and Zambesi), Chief Scientist Dr. Jürgen Pätzold

RV Heincke Cruise HE 226 (Bremerhaven - List - Bremerhaven), 24.04.-03.05.2005, North Sea (Helgoland mud area "Helgoländer Schlickloch", west of Sylt), Chief Scientist Dr. Christian Hass

RV Meteor Cruise M 65/1 (Dakar - Dakar), 11.06.-02.07.2005, Atlantic off North-West Africa (Senegal mud belt, continental shelf and slope off Senegal & Guinea), Chief Scientist Dr. Stefan Mulitza.

RV Meteor M 72/1 (Istanbul - Istanbul), 05.02.-20.02.2007, Black Sea (Cold Seep fields southwest off Krim Peninsula), Chief Scientist Dr. Richard Seifert

RV Polarstern Expedition ARK XXIII/3 (Reykjavik - Bremerhaven), 12.08.-17.10.2008, Arctic Ocean (Canada Basin, Alpha-Mendeleev Ridge, Makarov Basin, East Siberian Shelf), Chief Scientists Dr. Wilfried Jokat, Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Stein

JOIDES Resolution Expedition Bering Sea (Victoria – Yokohama), 05.07.-04.09.2009, Bering Sea, Co-Chief Scientists Prof. Dr. Kozo Takahashi, Dr. Anna Christina Ravello

Postgraduate Courses and Workshops

Career Workshop for PhD students (ECOLMAS), H. McGregor, 15.-16.03.2005, University Bremen, Germany

Biogeochemical field course, 29.08.-02.09.2005, S. Kasten and M. Schlüter, Wadden Sea Station of the AWI and coast around the island of Sylt, Germany

Introductory course to marine sciences (ECOLMAS), 24.10.-04.11.2005, T. Bickert and F. Jansen (organisation), University Bremen, Germany

Sedimentological and geochemical proxies in paleoceanography (ECOLMAS), 13.-16.12.2005, M. Zabel and R. Henrich, University Bremen, Germany

Signal and time series analysis (ECOLMAS/RCOM), 20.-21.03.2006, D. Heslop, University Bremen, Germany

Advanced organic biogeochemistry (NEBROC/ECOLMAS), 29.05.-03.06.2006, S. Schouten and J. Sinninghe Damsté (organisation), NIOZ, Texel, The Netherlands

Laser ablation isotope analyses (NSG), 09.-12.05.2006, S. Eggins, P. Mason and J. Kosler, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ECORD Summer School on Paleoceanography, 13.-24.08.2007, U. Brathauer & G. Wefer (organisation), University and IODP Core Repository Bremen, Germany

Arctic Ocean History Workshop – From Speculation to Reality (Consortium for Ocean Leadership/ESF), 03.-05.11.2008, B. Coakley and R. Stein (organisation), AWI Bremerhaven, Germany

INVEST Workshop - IODP New Ventures in Exploring Scientific Targets (IODP), 22.-25.09.2009, University Bremen/MARUM, Bremen, Germany.

UK Polar Network Workshop Polar sedimentary processes and archives, 18.-19.11.2010, Loughborough University, UK.

Symposium: Climate and Ocean Dynamics of the Cretaceous Greenhouse World, 26.-28.01.2011, Utrecht University.

Cretaceous-Paleogene palaeoenvironments, tectonics and biostratigraphy of the Arctic and subarctic, 29.-30.03.2011, C. Stickley and I. Harding (organisation), University of Tromsoe, Norway.

Magellan Workshop: Overcoming barriers to Arctic Ocean Drilling: the site survey challenge (ESF), 01.-03.11.2011, Rungstedgard/Copenhagen, Denmark.

Analytical Knowhow

Shipboard pore water extraction (teflon squeezers, rhizons) and analysis of dissolved inorganic chemical constituents

C-S analysis (Eltra, UIC)

X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF, Panalytical PW 2400)

Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS), various types

Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES, Perkin-Elmer 6300, ThermoScientific iCAP)

Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS, Thermo Element2)

X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)

X-ray Adsorption Near-Edge Spectometry (XANES; HASYLAB, Hamburg)

Sequential sedimentary phosphate extraction procedure (after Ruttenberg 1992)

Sequential sedimentary iron extraction procedure (after Canfield et al. 1986, Poulton & Canfield 2005)

Sequential sedimentary barite extraction procedure (after Paytan et al. 1998, Eagle et al. 2003)

Total sediment digestion procedure (HF/HNO3/HCl mixture) with and without Microwave system

Microfacies analysis of carbonate rocks

Lithological sediment description according to ODP/IODP procedures

Languages

German, English: Fluent in speaking and writing

Spanish: Conversation level

French: Basic level

Teaching

Advanced exercise for geological maps and sections (German, Prof. Dr. Volker Schweizer), 2002-2004, Geol.-Pal. Institute, University of Heidelberg

Practical inorganic geochemistry (German, Dr. Bernhard Schnetger), 2008, ICBM, University of Oldenburg

Exercise inorganic geochemistry (German, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Brumsack), 2008-2009, ICBM, University of Oldenburg

Introduction to inorganic geochemistry (German, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Brumsack), 2009-2010, ICBM, University of Oldenburg

Special inorganic geochemistry (German, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Brumsack), 2008-2010, ICBM, University of Oldenburg

Geochemical Seminar (English and German, organization), 2008-2010, ICBM, University of Oldenburg

Geosciences Seminar (English, organization), since 2010, CEGS, Newcastle University

Petroleum Geochemistry (English, Prof. Dr. Tom Wagner), 2011, CEGS, Newcastle University

Global Environmental Systems (English, Dr. Simon Poulton), 2010-2011, CEGS, Newcastle University

Supervised student projects and theses

EUROPROX Research Student supervision of Jan Hoffmann, Tim Haarmann (Bremen): „Identification and quantification of authigenic phosphate minerals below the SMT in deep-sea fan sediments”, 2007-2008, (PD. Dr. Sabine Kasten)

Thesis supervision of Environmental Sciences B.Sc. candidate Maren Seibt (Oldenburg): „High-resolution geochemical study of Upper Cretaceous black shale sediments (Demerara Rise, ODP Leg 207, Site 1261) via X-Ray Fluorescence analysis“, 2008 (Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Brumsack)

Thesis supervision of Chemistry Diploma candidate Alexandra Stratmann (Oldenburg): “Inorganic-geochemical characterisation of a sediment core (Kastenlot PS 72/340-5) from the southern Mendeleev Ridge (Eastern Siberian Sea, Arctic Ocean)”, 2008/2009 (Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Brumsack)

Thesis supervision of Chemistry Diploma candidate Ann-Kathrin Meinhardt (Oldenburg): “Inorganic geochemistry of surface sediments on an East-West transect across Mendeleev Ridge (81°N, Eastern Siberian Sea, Arctic Ocean)”, 2009 (Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Brumsack)

Thesis co-supervision of Petroleum Geochemistry M.Sc. candidate Nneamaka Fernilla Atuanya (Newcastle): "A geochemical approach to reconstruct the development of anoxia/euxinia in a Cenomanian/Turonian shelf basin off subtropical West-Africa (Tarfaya OAE2), 2010 (Prof. Dr. Tom Wagner)

Thesis co-supervision of Petroleum Geochemistry M.Sc. candidate Alistair Burn (Newcastle): “Organic matter-rich Paleogene deposits in the central Arctic Ocean – Reconstructing paleoenvironmental conditions and hydrocarbon generation potential”, 2011 (Prof. Dr. Tom Wagner)