Research

• Paleoclimatology using speleothems and trees as climate archives
• Cave monitoring for process understanding in karst systems
• Annually laminated speleothems from the Holocene
• Speleothems of the last four interglacials
• Stable isotope composition of tree rings

Job History

2025: Second place on the list of candidates suitable for appointment for the professorship “Applied Geochemistry of Terrestrial Systems”, Technical University Berlin

Total third-party funds acquired: 1,012,000 Euros

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

since 2016: habilitation at the Institute for Geosciences, completion planned for 2026

since 2025: academic staff member at the Institute for Geosciences, Speleothem Research Work Group (Prof. Dr. D. Scholz)

2024 – 2025: academic staff member at the Department of Chemistry, project coordination “Halocycles” (Prof. Dr. C. Streb and Prof. Dr. S. Waldvogel)

2019 – 2023: academic staff member at the Institute for Geosciences, Speleothem Research Work Group (Prof. Dr. D. Scholz)

01/2019 – 04/2019: academic staff member at the Institute for Geosciences, Climate and Sediments Work Group (Prof. Dr. F. Sirocko)

2013 – 2018: academic staff member at the Institute for Geosciences, Speleothem Research Work Group (Prof. Dr. D. Scholz)

2010 – 2013: Assistant at the Geographical Institute, Climatology Work Group (Prof. Dr. J. Esper)

Ruhr University Bochum

2007 – 2010: doctorate at the Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics (magna cum laude), supervision: Prof. Dr. D. K. Richter and Prof. Dr. A. Immenhauser, subproject of the DFG-funded research unit 668 “DAPHNE”

2009 – 2010: Scholarship from the “Wilhelm and Günter Esser Foundation”

2006 – 2009: academic staff member at the Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics

2004 – 2007: Master of Science in Geosciences (very good), master’s thesis supervision: Prof. Dr. D. K. Richter and Prof. Dr. A. Immenhauser

2003 – 2006: student assistant in various areas:

• Geothermal Project “PROMETHEUS” (rubitec GmbH)
• Micropaleontological sample preparation
• Tutor for the lecture “Introduction to Paleontology” (WS 04/05)

2001 – 2004: Bachelor of Science in Geosciences (very good), bachelor’s thesis supervision: Prof. Dr. D. Michalzik and Dr. T. Steuber

German Mining Museum (Bochum)

2003 – 2004: student assistant and several internships at the German Mining Museum, Department of Monument Preservation/Material Science

Ongoing projects

• A high-resolution quantitative reconstruction of the mean annual temperature for Central Europe for the last 13,300 years using annually laminated speleothems from Southern Germany, PI Dr. Dana Riechelmann (DFG)

Completed Projects

• Reconstruction of decadal to orbital climate variability during Marine Isotope Stage 9 based on precisely dated multi-proxy time series from Central European speleothems, PIs Dr. Dana Riechelmann and Prof. Dr. Denis Scholz (DFG, 2019 – 2023)
• Annual temperature and precipitation reconstruction for Central Europe using Holocene stalagmites, PI Dr. Dana Riechelmann (DFG, 2016 – 2024)
• Optimizing the sampling strategy for carbon and oxygen isotope analysis of an annually laminated stalagmite from Zoolithencave (Bavaria, Germany), PI Dr. Dana Riechelmann (JGU internal research funding, May – October 2015)
• High-resolution climate reconstruction in Central Europe using Holocene annually laminated speleothems, PI Dr. Dana Riechelmann (DFG, 2014 – 2016)