| ACADEMIC RECORD
| Since 10/09 |
Vice-Dean of Students, Department of Earth Sciences |
| Since 07/07 |
Professor, University of Bremen
Head of Section “Geodynamics of Polar Regions” |
| 04/04 – 05/07 |
Assistant Professor, University of Tübingen |
| 04/02 – 03/04 | Emmy-Noether Research Fellow, University of Melbourne |
| 02/01 – 07/01 |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tübingen,
Collaborative Research Centre 275, Project “The Tertiary uplift of the Alps as climatic steering factor |
| 02/2001 |
Doctorate in Science, University of Tübingen,
Thesis title: “Post-collisional exhumation history of the Central Alps” |
| 02/98 – 01/01 |
Research Fellow, University of Tübingen,
Collaborativ Research Centre 275 |
| 01/98 | Diploma in Geology, University of Kiel,
Thesis on metamorphism and mylonitisation of the lower continental crust of Calabria, South Italy |
| 11/90 – 12/1997 |
Study of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology at the Universities of Hannover, Barcelona, and Kiel |
HONOURS AND AWARDS
| 2007 | Hans-Cloos-Award (Geologische Vereinigung) |
| 2007 | Hermann-Credner-Award (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften) |
| 2002 | Emmy-Noether-Scholarship (German Science Foundation) |
| 2002 |
Scholarship for excellence in postdoctoral research
(State of Baden-Württemberg) |
| 1996 | Erasmus Scholarship (European Union) |
RESEARCH INTEREST
- Methodological studies on low temperature thermochronology
(fission track and (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronology)
- Sediment provenance analysis, source-sink relationships
- Coupling of tectonics, erosion, sedimentation, and climate
- Research areas: European Alps and circum-Alpine basins (Germany, Switzerland, France, Austria), East African Rift System (Kenya), Donets Basin and East European Craton (Ukraine),
Ellesmere Island (Canadian Arctic), Svalbard (Norway), Marie Byrd Land (Antarctica)
MEMBERSHIP
- Standing committee of the Fission Track Community
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (board member)
- Geologische Vereinigung
- European Geoscience Union
EDITORIAL WORK
- Member of the Editorial Board of Geology
- Guest-Editor for the Geological Society of America Special Publication 378 “Detrital thermochronology –
provenance analysis, exhumation, and landscape evolution of mountain belts”
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