Education & Professional life
Since 2004:
Chair (C4) for Applied Sedimentology at Darmstadt, Technical University
2001:
Professor (C3) for Applied Sedimentology at Darmstadt, Technical University
1998:
Two month research visit in the U.S.A. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) and in Canada (Vancouver)
1994-2000:
Postdoc and research fellow at the University of Tübingen
Habilitation: Climate-controlled denudation-accumulation-systems: mass balances, modelling and application
1990-1994:
Ph.D. student and research assistant in Applied Geology at the University of Tübingen
Topic of the Ph.D. thesis: Simulation of long-term trends of the acidification of soil and groundwater in the Bunter sandstone based on long-term hydrochemical budgets (Black Forest, SW Germany)
1982-1989:
Diploma student in Geology and Paleontology at the University of Tübingen
Topic of the diploma thesis: Sedimentology and volcanism of the Paleozoic south of St. Lorenzen/Lesachtal with special emphasis on the Fleons formation (Western Carnic Alps/Austria/Italy)
1981:
Highschool degree (13 years obligatory) in Stuttgart
Current Scientific Projects
- Impact of medieval and modern urbanisation on aquatic environments
- Contaminants in rural soils
- High-resolution record of Holocene climate and environment on the Arabian Peninsula
- Reconstruction of the Pliocene climate in Central Europe
- Sediment budget on the Rhine routing system
- Pre-variscan geodynamic evolution of the Odenwald
- The Hirnantian glaciation in the Alps – a provenance study
Memberships
- Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft-Geologische Vereinigung (DGGV)
- Central European Section of SEPM (CES-SEPM)
- Darmstädter Freunde der Geowissenschaften (DFG)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (DGG)
- Fachsektion Hydrogeologie der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft (FH-DGG)
- Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg e.V.
- International Association of Limnogeologists (IAL)
- International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
- Laichinger Höhlenverein
- Oberrheinischer Geologischer Verein (OGV)
