Professional Expertise

Current   Praxis für funktionelle Medizin

  www.funktionelle-medizin-frankfurt.de

2015-2020   Medical Studies

2019                           Scientific consultant at HMWK ("Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst") in Wiesbaden, Germany

2012 - 2018               Head of junior research group 

                                    at Senckenberg BiK-F in Frankfurt/Main, Germany

2010 - 2012               Postdoctoral fellow at Caltech                         

                                   Postdoctorate advisor: Prof. Alex Sessions

2009                          Dissertation at University of Bremen

                                    Graduate advisors: Prof. Gesine Mollenhauer, Dr. Stefan Mulitza, Dr. Enno Schefuß

2006 - 2009             PhD student at MARUM (University of Bremen, Germany)

                                    Member of GLOMAR graduate school

1998 - 2005               Study of Biology (Diploma)

                                    At Universities Regensburg and Giessen, Germany

                                    Undergraduate advisors: Prof. Gerd Esser, Prof. Aart van Bel, Prof. Christoph Mueller

Research Interests

Tropical & mid-latitudinal paleo climate

- Mediterranean Climate change

- Australian-Indonesian Monsoon

- West African Monsoon

- Climate change as driver of speciation and extinction of species

Organic geochemistry

- Proxy calibration and refinement

- Compound specific dD and d13C of higher plant-leaf waxes

- GDGT and alkenone paleothermometry

- Levoglucosan - paleo vegetation burning

Eco-physiology of plants

- Plant hydrology - plant/atmosphere interactions

- Geobotany

- Evolution of plants