Curriculum vitae

Senior Scientist at Bremen University in the framework of a DFG Heisenberg Stipend.

Guest professor, Université des Sciences et Technologies, Lille, France

Associate Scientist, Organic Geochemistry Unit, MARUM and Faculty of Geosciences, Bremen University

Guest professor, Université des Sciences et Technologies, Lille, France

Post Doc. Organic geochemistry at the Institut für Biogeochemie und Meereschemie, Universität Hamburg.

Fellow of the 'Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg' Delmenhorst.

Staff Member Dept. Geochemistry, Faculty of Geosciences. Utrecht University.

Staff Member Dept. Historische Geologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Paläontologie, Universität Bremen.

NEBROC Post-Doc. at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (50%) and Bremen University, Germany (50%)

Post-Doc. organic geochemistry at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Netherlands

Defence of dissertation, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Ph.D. Position at the Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Guest Scientist at Department of Geology, University of Oslo, Norway.

Study of Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Member of the scientific advisory committee for the Modern and Fossil Dinoflagellate Conference (Dino 9) in Liverpool late August/early September 2011

Organisation of the Workshop on selective Preservation of organic matter. Processes and impact on the fossil record. August 27-30. Bremen, Germany (organized together with S. Kasten and K.A.F. Zonneveld).

Scientific assessment of solar induced climate change for the Dutch Government. Together with Kees de Jager (solar physics) and Rob van Dorland (meteorology)

Advisor for the re-vegetation of the ‘Falm Escarpment’ on Helgoland

Editor of the proceedings of the 9th International Nannoplankton Organisation (INA-9)

Organisation of the 1st Europrox Workshop, Feb. 27-28, 2001. Delmenhorst

Organisation of the CODENET Spring Workshop, 18-21 march, 1999 Texel, The Netherlands (organised together with H. Kinkel).
Representative for NIOZ in EU Training and Mobility Programme CODENET

Organisation of and Member of the Scientific Board of Dino V; The fifth International Conference on modern and fossil dinoflagellates, Zeist, The Netherlands; Proceedings editor.

Reviewer for Aquatic Botany; Biochemical Engineering Journal; Chemosphere; Climate Research; Continental Shelf Research; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Environmental Pollution; Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Research; Geochemistry; Geology; Geophysics, Geophysical Research Letters, Geosystems; Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; The Holocene; Journal of Paleolimnology; Journal of Systematics and Evolution; Limnology and Oceanography; Marine Chemistry; Mini Reviews in Medical Chemistry; Organic Geochemistry; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; Palaeontology; Palynology; Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences; Precambrian Research; Quaternary Science Reviews; Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.

Poseidon Cruise 411, (CARPACCIO) Calabria and Adriatic high resolution palaeoproductivity and climate reconstructions of the last 5 millennia - -human and/or natural forcing? Taranto - Taranto.

Poseidon Cruise 398, (PAPOCA) Production and preservation of organic carbon in relationship to dust input and nepheloid layers in the upwelling area off NW Africa. Las Palmas - Lisbon.

Pelagia Cruise 64PE297 (DOPPIO). Mediterranean Sea & Anoxic brine basins. Lisboa - Heraklion.

Poseidon Cruise P339 (CAPPUCCINO). Calabrian and Adriatic (palaeo-)productivity and Climatic variability in the last two millennia. Piraeus - Messina

Meteor Cruise M74-3. Structure and Development of the Southwest African Continental Margin - A Seismic and Geologic-Geochemical Study of the Congo and in the Working Areas of ODP Leg 175. Libreville - Walvis Bay

The L.R. Wilson Award (00) for Outstanding Student Paper. Presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 25-28.