Teaching and supervision

Teaching activity

Univerzita Karlova

Scientific Programming and Data Visualization

Practical to learn programming, data analysis, visualization, and scientific presentation with R and LaTeX.

Quantitative Analyses in Palaeontology and Ecology

Lectures and exercises in quantitative analyses in the life sciences.

Université de Genève

Sedimentary Laboratory Techniques

Laboratory practical to learn the basic sedimentological and micropalaeontological techniques in a hands-on approach during laboratory work.

Micropalaeontology I and II

Lectures and exercises to teach the basics of micropalaeontology, palaeoecology, and biostratigraphy.

Palaeogeology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Lectures and exercises to give a broad introduction into palaeoecology, specifically population ecology.

Universität Bremen

Palaeoecology

Lectures and exercises to give a broad introduction into palaeoecology, specifically population ecology.

Methods in Palaeobiology

Practical introduction into scientific work, including specifying an interesting scientific question to answer, designing and implementing an analytical approach, analyzing the data, writing a short summary report, and presenting the results in a talk.

Quantitative Analyses in Palaeontology

Lectures and exercises in quantitative analyses in the palaeosciences.

Supervised theses

Environmental adaptation of the marine phytoplankton and its impact on the marine carbon pump

  • University: Univerzita Karlova

  • Student: Medhavi Srivastava, M.Sc.

  • Status: Ongoing

Evolvability of planktonic Foraminifera: Adaptive reactions to environmental change

  • University: Univerzita Karlova

  • Student: Jaime Y. Suárez-Ibarra, M.Sc.

  • Status: Ongoing

Seasonal productivity in the Azores Front (North Atlantic)

Directional asymmetry in shells of Trilobatus sacculifer

The Extinction of Globigerinoides ruber (pink) in the Red Sea

The influence of porosity and cryptic diversity on the normalized shell weight of Orbulina universa