Academic career



Current position

2014 - present

    Research Scientist, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institue for Evolutionary Anthropology


Previous positions

2009 - 2014

    Research Group Leader, U-series MC-ICPMS Laboratory, CENIEH, Spain

2009 - 2016

    Visiting Research Fellow, University of Bristol, UK

2008-2009

    Research Fellow, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol

2005 - 2008

    Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
    Research project 'New U-Th and U-Pb dating methods for applications from Quaternary climates to planetesimal formation', funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

2002 - 2005

    Postdoctoral Research Assistant, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
    Research project 'Causes of dramatic shifts in atmospheric radiocarbon during the last glacial cycle', funded by the NERC.

2002

    Postdoctoral Research Associate, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institute for Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg
    Research project on developing methods for in field ESR age estimations of speleothems funded by Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften.

1998 - 2001

    Research Associate, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institute for Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg
    Research project 'ESR-dating of equid teeth', funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.


Education


2002

    Dr. rer. nat. (University of Heidelberg), Thesis 'Coupled Electron-Spin-Resonance- and Uranium-series-dating of tooth enamel'

1998

    Diplom Physiker (Dipl. phys., University of Heidelberg), Thesis 'ESR dating of deep sea sediments'

Invited presentations


2016

    'Speleothem based palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment research in the western Mediterranean realm.' International Workshop - Modern origins in the Mediterranean: interdisciplinary approach. Aix Marseille University, Marseille, 14/15 January 2016.

2014

    'MC-ICPMS U-Th isotope measurements for precise chronologies in Quaternary climate research, Earth sciences and Archaeology', Thermo Scientific - Seminario de Analisis isotopico elemental. Barcelona, 5 June 2014.

2013

    'MC-ICPMS U-Th isotope measurements for precise speleothem chronologies in Quaternary climate research and Archaeology'. Seminar Department of Earth Sciences, RHUL, UK, 29 October 2013.

2012

    'Frontiers and potential of U-series dating for Quaternary timescales' Earthtime Workshop on 'Absolute timescales for the quaternary', Santorini, 07-11 October 2012.

2011

    'MC-ICPMS U-Th isotope measurements for precise speleothem chronologies in Quaternary climate research'. EGU General Assembly 2011, Vienna, April 3 - 8, 2011.

2010

    Radiocarbon Calibration and Stalagmites. Seminar Aktuelle Themen aus der Beschleunigermassenspektrometrie und deren Anwendungen, Institute of Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zuerich, 26 May 2010.

2009

    'U-Th analyses of carbonate rich varved lake sediments - potential for dating', Workshop on Allogenic Contributions in U-Series Dating, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, 20. March 2009.

2008

    'Procedures for U and Th isotope measurements using MC-ICPMS for applications in geochronology and isotope geochemistry' ESARDA Working Group on Techniques and Standards for Destructive Analysis, Workshop on Measurements of minor isotopes in uranium, IRMM, Geel, Belgium, 10 - 11 April 2008.

2006

    'Hochaufgelöste Spurenelementmessungen und U-Th Datierung an Stalagmiten mittels Laser Ablation-(MC)-ICPMS' Institute for Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 16. November 2006.