Profile
Abstract
I am a physical geographer specialising in soil geography, geomorphology, landscape evolution and palaeoenvironmental research. I am concerned with human-environment interactions on different time scales from the Palaeolithic to modern times. For my research, the focus is on fieldwork as a robust basis for sampling and further analysis. I also have methodological knowledge in the field of luminescence dating of sediments. Due to my more than five years of employment at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) as part of my PhD, I am used to working in interdisciplinary research groups and contexts. Since the beginning of 2023, I have been employed at the LeipzigLab in the working group "Historical Anthropospheres", in which several fields of science jointly attempt to measure the growing influence of humans from the Middle Ages to industrialisation.
Professional career
- since 07/2017
PhD candidate in Archaeological Science at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig and Leiden University. Title of the Dissertation: "Beyond the trenches – A landscape-oriented chronostratigraphic approach to MIS 5 Middle Paleolithic open-air sites on the European Plain: Case studies from Lichtenberg and Khotylevo I" - 08/2022 - 12/2022
Executive Researcher at the Institute of Geography, Leipzig University within the DFG-funded project: "Climate, Famine, and Plague: A Pilot Study of the 14th-century Mass Graves of Erfurt from an Interdisciplinary Perspective" - 01/2016 - 06/2016
Federal Voluntary Service at the regional environmental NGO Ökolöwe – Umweltbund Leipzig e.V. - 04/2014 - 06/2017
Various positions at the University of Jena (Department of Prehistory and Early History): Carrying out geomorphological and soil-geographical mapping to identify early medieval settlement structures (harbour, site desertification).
Education
- 10/2010 - 11/2013
M.Sc. Physical Geography in Leipzig. Title of the Master's Thesis: "Soil and landscape development around the Late Bronze Age hillfort 'Zetten' in Saxony" - 10/2006 - 10/2010
B.Sc. Geography in Leipzig. Title of the Bachelor's Thesis: "Reconstruction of the palaeosurface and soilscape in the vicinity of the Early Neolithic settlement 'Zauschwitz', Saxony.
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Seminar course on Geomorphology and paleoenvironmental research