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Graduates 2024

 

Opeyemi Ogunleye

Opeyemi Ogunleye with his doctoral hat and gown

 

Thesis: 

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß

 

Michael Kyei Agyekum

Michael Kyei Agyekum

 

Thesis: Canopy gap dynamics in mangrove forests: exploring global patterns and drivers

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Zimmer

 

Nikolas Römer-Stange

 

Thesis: Near Surface Seismic Inversion - Quantitative Interpretation of the Physical Properties of Unconsolidated Sediments

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß

 

Graduates 2023

 

Emmanuel Okuma

Emmanuel Okuma

 

Thesis: Glacial to Holocene development of Baffin Bay sedimentary systems: processes, provenances, and patterns

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln

 

Tonke Strack

Tonke Strack

 

Thesis: Long-term response of marine plankton to climate change in the North Atlantic Ocean during the past 24,000 years

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera

First position after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM

 

Lisa Röpke

Lisa Röpke

 

Thesis: The application and potential toxicity of innovative antifouling coatings for coral reef restoration

Supervisor: Dr. Andreas Kunzmann

First position after graduation: Scientist at Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), Hamburg

 

Ameris Ixchel Contreras Silva

doctoral hat

 

Thesis: The Mexican Caribbean reefs: from benthic changes  and stressors towards a sustainable management strategy

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild

 

Nina-Marie Lešić

Nina-Marie Lešić

 

Thesis: Late Pleistocene and Holocene sediments around South Georgia: Archives for climate-induced signals in sub-Antarctica since the last glaciation

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bohrmann

First position after graduation: Project engineer at Strabag Umwelttechnik GmbH, Bremen

Lara Stuthmann

Lara Stuthmann

 

Thesis: Aquaculture of Caulerpa lentillifera (sea grapes, Chlorophyta): Nutritional value, co-cultivation potential and post-harvest procedures of a sea vegetable

Supervisor: Dr. Andreas Kunzmann

First position after graduation: Postdoc at ZMT, Bremen, Germany

 

Ines Bruns

Ines Bruns

 

Thesis: 

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. André Freiwald

 

Sabrina Hohmann

Sabrina Hohmann

 

Thesis: Understanding the Arctic marine carbon cycle under changing climate: a reconstruction of productivity and biogenic carbon burial on the West Greenland margin of the Baffin Bay

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera

 

Johanna Hingst

Johanna Hingst

 

Thesis: Impact of melt water controlled material flux on the sedimentation in the western Baffin Bay and the circum-Greenland marginal seas

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Simone Kasemann

 

Mattia Ghilardi

Mattia Ghilardi

 

Thesis: A multilevel assessment of the drivers of fish contribution to the inorganic carbon cycle on coral reefs

Supervisor: Dr. Sonja Bejrano (ZMT)

First position after graduation: Diving guide, Sardinia, Italy

 

Henriette Wilckens

Henriette Wilckens

 

Thesis: Contourite development: Analysing the interaction between bottom currents and sedimentary Systems

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Elda Miramontes

First position after graduation: Postdoc at the University of Haifa, Israel

 

Jens Weiser

Jens Weiser

 

Thesis: On the Sedimentology of West Greenland Shelves - Spotlight insights into sediment input, dispersal and (non)-deposition in a palaeoenvironmental context

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln

First position after graduation: Geologist at underground - engineering geology consultants, Bremen, Germany

 

Franziska Tell

Franziska Tell

 

Thesis: Arctic planktonic foraminifera pelagic carbonate production and sedimentation under changing environmental conditions

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera

First position after graduation: Elected member of the Parliament of Bremen, Germany

 

Sabrina Duncan

doctoral hat

 

Thesis: Assemblage structure and trophodynamics of mesopelagic fishes in the Benguela and Canary Current Upwelling Systems

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hagen

First position after graduation: Researcher at Thuenen Institute for Sea Fisheries, Bremerhaven, Germany

 

Pauline Cornuault

Pauline Cornuault

 

Thesis: Natural variation of pelagic carbonate production during Cenozoic warm periods

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera

 

Débora Silva Raposo

Débora Silva Raposo

 

Thesis: Constraining the physiological, genetic, and symbiotic adaptation of an invasive foraminifera in the Mediterranean Sea

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera

First position after graduation: Project Coordinator at GFBio - Gesellschaft für Biologische Daten e.V., Bremen, Germany

 

Graduates 2022

 

Artur Prugger

Artur Prugger

 

Thesis: Stability, Bifurcations and Explicit Solutions in Geophysical Fluid Models with Simplified Backscatter

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jens Rademacher

First position after graduation: WiMi at Fraunhofer ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany

 

Victoria Kürzinger

Victoria Kürzinger

 

Thesis: The Kemp Caldera as example of submarine arc/back-arc hydrothermal systems

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bohrmann

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

 

Friederike Grimmer

Friederike Grimmer

 

Thesis: Environmental change in western equatorial South America and the role of the Andes during the warm Pliocene (4.7 to 2.7 Ma): A palynological study

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerold Wefer

First job after graduation: Palynologist at Intertek Food Services GmbH, Bremen, Germany

Adrienne Hollister

Adrienne Hollister

 

Thesis: Trace metals and organic matter in the Amazon-Pará River Estuary

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andrea Koschinsky-Fritsche

First job after graduation: Postdoc at the Constructor University, Bremen, Germany

Yiting Tseng

Yiting Tseng

 

Thesis: 

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bohrmann

First job after graduation: Project Manager Marine Geology, Skyborn Renewables, Bremen, Germany

Steffen Swoboda

Steffen Swoboda

 

Thesis: Export and lateral advection of organic matter within the biological carbon pump

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Morten Iversen

First job after graduation: Postdoc at GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany

Leonardo Tamborrino

Leonardo Tamborrino

 

Thesis: Spatial and temporal development of the Namibian cold-water coral mounds

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln

First job after graduation: Offshore Geophysicist at Green Rebel Marine, Crosshaven, Ireland

Nan Xiang

Nan Xiang with her doctoral hat

 

Thesis: Effects of Anthropogenic Changes on Nitrogen Cycling Microbes of Coral Holobionts

Supervisor: Dr. Astrid Gärdes

First job after graduation: Postdoc at the Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Gözde Özden

Gözde Özden

 

Thesis: Variational Model Reduction for Non-hydrostatic Stratified Flows in the Mid-Latitude and the Equator

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marcel Oliver

First job after graduation: Postdoc at the University of Hamburg, Germany

Amon Kibiwot Kimeli

Amon Kimeli with his doctoral hat and gown

 

Thesis: Sediment dynamics in a transboundary mangrove habitat: a perspective of sediment sources and sedimentation in the Vanga estuary, Kenya

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal

First job after graduation: Researcher at Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Mombasa, Kenya

Alexander Busch

Alexander Busch

 

Thesis: Principles of the axial pile setup

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tobias Mörz

First job after graduation: Geotechnical Engineer at COWI, Hamburg, Germany

 

 

Patrick Boyden

Patrick Boyden

 

Thesis: Last Interglacial sea level in the western Indian Ocean: multifaceted approach to paleo relative sea level indicator interpretation and analysis

Supervisor: Dr. Alessio Rovere

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

 

 

Esther Thomsen

Esther Thomsen

 

Thesis: Response of seagrasses to aquaculture effluents and the filtering capacity of seagrass meadows for anthorogenic nitrogen in Hainan, China

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Zimmer

First job after graduation: Survey Lead at Project Seagrass, Edinburgh, UK

 

 

Graduates 2021

 

Carolin Müller

Carolin Müller

 

Thesis: Impact of Microplastic on Early Life-History Stages of Seabream in the Atlantic Ocean

Supervisor: Dr. Werner Ekau

First job after graduation: Postdoc at Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Bremen, Germany

Md Jakiul Islam

Md Jakiul Islam

 

Thesis: Effects of extreme environmental variation on the physiological responses of European seabass, Dicentrarchus Iabrax

Supervisor: Dr. Andreas Kunzmann

First job after graduation: Assistant Professor at Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh

Anouk Vlug

Anouk Vlug

 

Thesis: The influence of climate variability on the mass balance of Canadian Arctic land-terminating glaciers, in simulations of the last millennium

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz

First job after graduation: Researcher at the University of Innsbruck, Austria

Katja Stanislowski

Katja Stanislowski

 

Thesis: The seismic potential of the shallow portions of the northern Cascadia and the North Sumatra subduction zones: Insights from laboratory friction experiments

Supervisor: Dr. Matt Ikari

First job after graduation: Project coordinator at the office of the senator for climate protection, environment, mobility, urban development and housing in Bremen, Germany

Aagje Eijsink

Aagje Eijsink

 

Thesis: The transition from stable to slow to fast earthquake slip on faults: the influence of surface morphology, fault normal stiffness and lithology

Supervisor: Dr. Matt Ikari

First job after graduation: Postdoc at Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA

Britta Hamann

Britta Hamann

 

Thesis: Interdisiziplinarität ist eigentlich selbstverständlich
und unmöglich. Eine ethnografische Expedition zu den Akteuren
der interdisziplinären Wissenspraxis in der Meeresforschung

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht

First job after graduation: Science manager at the University of Bremen, Germany

 

Hadar Elyashiv

Hadar Elyashiv

 

Thesis: The Role of Sediments Physical Properties in Preconditioning Submarine Landslides Initiation: A Sedimentological and a Numerical Investigation

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Katrin Huhn-Frehers

First job after graduation: Postdoc at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and at the Interuniversity Institute of Marine Sciences in Eilat, Israel

 

Gökce Tuba Masur

Gökce Tuba Masur

 

Thesis: A numerical investigation of optimal balance for rotating shallow water flow

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marcel Oliver

First job after graduation: Postdoc at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

 

Lina Madaj

Lina Madaj

 

Thesis: Holocene Ice Sheet Dynamics and Detrital Provenance Shifts Along The West Greenland Margin Recorded by Radiogenic Isotopes (Sr, Nd, Pb)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Simone Kasemann

First job after graduation: Postdoc at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

Ricarda Gatter

doctoral hat

 

Thesis: Micro-mechanics of weak layers: key role of sediment structure and composition

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Katrin Huhn-Frehers

First job after graduation: Postdoc at University of Bremen, Germany

 

Julia Oelker

Julia Oelker

 

Thesis: Suitability of atmospheric satellite sensors for ocean color applications

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Astrid Bracher

First position after graduation: Postdoc at ICBM, Uni Oldenburg, Germany

 

Peter Kiss

Peter Kiss

 

Thesis: The effect of population dynamics, growth and calcification of planktonic formainifera on the pelagic carbonate flux

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera

First job after graduation: Reservoir engineer at Nafta, Slovakia

Hannah Nowitzki

Hannah Nowitzki

 

Thesis: Pathways and variability of the circulation in the subpolar eastern North Atlantic studied with inverted echo sounders and model data

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Monika Rhein

First position after graduation: Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH, Cologne, Germany

Eva Bischof

Eva Bischof

 

Thesis: Ontogenetic and macroevolutionary patterns of Anisian (Middle Triassic) ammonoids from Nevada, USA

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jens Lehmann

First position after graduation: Scientist (WiMi) at Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern, Switzerland

Luise Britta Heinrich

Luise Britta Heinrich

 

Thesis: Interdisciplinary Assessment of Deep-Sea Mining Impacts: From Science to Policy and Implications for Sustainable Development

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andrea Koschinsky-Fritsche

First job after graduation: Research Associate at Jacobs University Bremen and GEOMAR Helmholtz-Centre für Ocean Research Kiel, Germany

Yusuf C. El-Khaled

Yusuf El-Khaled

 

Thesis: Assessment of nitrogen cycle pathways associated with different major benthic organisms in response to environmental changes

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild

First job after graduation: Postdoc and scientific lab coordinator at the University of Bremen, Germany

Ting-Wei Wu

Ting-Wei Wu

 

Thesis: Quantitative Geotechnical Characterization of Seismic Strengthening Effect on Siliceous Soils

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Achim Kopf

First job after graduation: Postdoc at Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway

Nora Schulze

PhD Defence Nora Schulze

 

Thesis: The Sedimentary and Tectonic Evolution of the Nam Co Basin, Tibetan Plateau, since the Middle Pleistocene – A Seismoacoustic Study on Lake Sediments

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß

First position after graduation: Project Engineer at ALTUS AG, Karlsruhe, Germany

Paula Senff

Paula Senff

 

Thesis: Improving bioremediation with extractive species in integrated aquaculture

Supervisor: Dr. Andreas Kunzmann

First job after graduation: Postdoc at Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

 

 

Graduates 2020

 

Valentin Simon Ludwig

Valentin Ludwig

 

Thesis: A 1 km sea-ice concentration dataset from merged thermal infrared and microwave radiometer satellite observations: More than the sum of its parts

Supervisor: Dr. Gunnar Spreen

First job after graduation: ArcTrain Fellowship at University of Bremen, Germany

 

 

Jonas Löb

Jonas Löb

 

Thesis: Observations of damping and scattering of low mode internal waves in the ocean

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Monika Rhein

First job after graduation: Postdoc at the University of Bremen, Germany

 

 

Neele Meyer

Neele Meyer

 

Thesis: Polar microbioerosion patterns exemplified in Arctic and Antarctic barnacles

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. André Freiwald

First job after graduation: Science Communication at Klimahaus Bremerhaven, Germany

 

Natalia Sukhikh

Natalia Sukhikh

 

Thesis: Mixing induced vertical heat and freshwater fluxes in the upper ocean

Supervisor: Dr. Maren Walter

First job after graduation: Lead Hydrometeorologist at the Marine Research Center of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

 

 

Anna Koester

Anna Koester

 

Thesis: Patterns and drivers of coral reef resilience and Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild

First job after graduation: Marine researcher at Seychelles Island Foundation, Aldabra, Seychelles

Yanming Ruan

Yanming Ruan

 

Thesis:

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln

First position after graduation: Postdoc at Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel island, the Netherlans

 

Nadine Gerlach

Nadine Gerlach

 

Thesis: Bacterial utilization of anionic polysaccharides from macroalgae

Supervisor: Dr. Jan Hendrik Hehemann

First position after graduation: Biotechnologist at Lonza, Basel, Switzerland

 

Margarita Smolentseva

Margarita Smolentseva

 

Thesis: Reducing spurious diapycnal mixing in ocean circulation models

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Jung

First position after graduation: Postdoc at the University of Bremen, Germany

Lucy Schlicht

Lucy Schlicht

 

Thesis: Isotopic signatures in diverse settings of seafloor hydrothermal activity

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bach

First position after graduation: Project engineer at DMT GmbH & Co. KG, Essen, Germany

 

Min Song

Min Song

 

Thesis: Hydrocarbon gas cycling and microbial imprint at cold and hot seeps

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

First position after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

 

Mattia Greco

Mattia Greco

 

Thesis: Arctic plankton ecology under Global Change

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera

First position after graduation: Postdoc at Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA

Maren Wohltmann (née Bender)

Maren Wohltmann (née Bender)

 

 

Thesis: A fairytale of Southeast Asian sea levels. Read by a Database

Supervisor: Dr. Alessio Rovere

First position after graduation: Project manager at GeoInformation Bremen, Germany

Tina Klein

Tina Klein

 

Thesis: New Insights into Environmental Conditions for the Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian-Toarcian) from Boron, Lithium and Magnesium Isotopes 

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Simone Kasemann

First position after graduation: Field Application Specialist ICP-MS at PerkinElmer Inc., Rodgau, Germany

 

Vicente Maria Duran Toro

Vicente Maria Duran Toro

 

Thesis: Nanomaterials in the environment

Supervisor: Dr. Solveig Bühring

First job after graduation: Technical assistant at Schmidt Beregnungsanlagen GmbH & Co, Hausen, Germany

Pedro Pablo Silva Sanchez

Pedro Pablo Silva Sanchez

 

Thesis: Human rigths litigation and the environment: Legal transfers from the European to the Inter-American Human Rights System


Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerd Winter

First position after graduation: Head of International Affairs, Ministry of Labor and Security of Chile

 

Seth Mensah Abobi

Seth Mensah Abobi

 

Thesis: Fish­er­ies As­sess­ment and Trophic Mod­el­ling of Tono, Bontanga and Golinga Reser­voirs, Ghana

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Wolf

First position after graduation: Lecturer at the University for Development Studies in Tamale, Ghana

 

Rebecca Borges e Silva

Rebecca Borges

 

Thesis: As­sess­ing the spa­tial man­age­ment of man­groves and small-scale fish­er­ies in pro­tec­ted areas on the Brazilian Amazon coast

Supervisor: Prof. Dr.  Mathhias Wolf

 

Haozhuang Wang

Haozhuang Wang

 

Thesis: The formation of cold-water coral mounds in the Mediterranean Sea

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln

First position after graduation: Postdoc at the Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Sanya, Hainan Province, China

Qingzeng Zhu

Qinzeng Zhu

 

Thesis: Isotopic geochemistry of microbial lipids to constrain their sources and turnover

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

First position after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

 

Salvador Ruiz Soto

Salvador Ruiz Soto

 

Thesis: Holocene pollen and spores variability derived from marine sediment analysis from the Adriatic Sea. Roman Climate Optimum, Industrial Revolution and present day under scope.

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karin Zonneveld

First position after graduation: Researcher at Intertek Food Services, Bremen, Germany

 

Beatriz Margarita Recions Rivas

 

Thesis: Ocean-glacier interaction on the large regional scale

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ben Marzeion

First job after graduation: Postdoc, University of Edinburgh, UK

 

 

Graduates 2019

 

Alexander Rösner

Alexander Rösner

 

Thesis: Nankai Trough fault slip behavior analyzed in-situ and in shear experiments

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Achim Kopf

First poition after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

Eric Tamatey Lawer

Eric Tamatey Lawer

 

Thesis: Transitioning towards sustainability: practices and outcomes in European and West African ports

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Flitner

First position after graduation: Research fellow at the University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

 

Inken Hanke

Inken Hanke

 

Thesis: Milkfish (Chanos chanos) under stress: Contributing to fish welfare in tropical aquaculture by identifying and quantifying potential stressors

Supervisor: Dr. Astrid Gärdes

 

Susanne Alfken

Susanne Alfken

 

Thesis: Refining molecular stratigraphy through mass spectrometry imaging of sediments
at sub-millimeter resolution

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

First position after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

Benjamin Gillard

Benjamin Gillard

 

Thesis: Toward Deep Sea Mining - Impact of mining activities on benthic pelagic coupling in the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Morten Iversen

First job after graduation: Postdoc at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

 

Helga Van der Jagt

Helga Van der Jagt

 

Thesis: The role of zooplankton and mineral ballasting in the biological carbon pumpl

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Morten Iversen

First job after graduation: Marine Ecologist at Bureau Waardenburg BV, Wageningen, the Netherlands

 

Fiona Judith Rochholz

Fiona Rochholz

 

Thesis: Astronomically-modulated climate-carbon cycle interactions in the cGENIE Earth System Model

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heiko Pälike

First job after graduation: Postdoc at Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg, Germany

Diana Martínez Alarcón

Diana Martínez Alarcón

 

Thesis: Ecophysiological performance and life cycle strategies of North Sea shrimps

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hagen

 

Charlotte Breitkreuz

Charlotte Breitkreuz

 

Thesis: Ocean State Estimation for the Last Glacial Maximum: Combining Models and Proxy Data via Data Assimilation

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz

First job after graduation: Postdoc at the University of Bremen, Germany

 

Sri Nandini-Weiss

Sri Nandini-Weiss

 

Thesis: Hydroclimate variations in the Caspian Sea region from the late Quaternary to the future - a model prespective -

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz

First job after graduation: Postdoc at the University of Hamburg, Germany

Seyed Mohammad Amirshahi

Mohammad Amirshahi

 

Thesis: Turbulent Suspension of Sediments in Shallow Shelf Seas

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Winter

First job after graduation: Software developer at Holobuilder, Aachen, Germany

Amanda Frigola Boix

Amanda Frigola Boix

 

Thesis: Global climate and Indonesian Throughflow during the Middle Miocene Climate Transition: a modeling approach

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz

Agata Mystkowska

Agata Mystkowska

 

Thesis: Cabrohydrate-binding proteins from marine bacteria

Supervisor: Dr. Jan-Hendrik Hehemann

First job after graduation: Science and Innovation manager at mk2 Biotechnologies, Munich, Germany

Eunmi Park

Eunmi Park

 

Thesis: Variations in GDGT flux and TEX86 thermometry in three distinct oceanic regimes of the Atlantic Ocean: a sediment trap study

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gesine Mollenhauer

Alexander Diehl

Alexander Diehl

 

Thesis: Causes for variable hydrothermal vent fluid compositions in intraoceanic arcs - Insights from fluid compositions and mineral precipitates of the South Kermadec Arc

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bach

First job after graduation: Postdoc at the University of Bremen, Germany

Elmar Albers

Elmar Albers

 

Thesis: Mass transfers during fluid-rock interactions at divergent and convergent plate boundaries

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bach

First job after graduation:  Postdoc at the University of Bremen, Germany

 

Graduates 2018

 

Andreia Seia Rebotim

Andreia Rebotim

 

Thesis: Ecology and stable isotope geochemistry of modern planktonic foraminifera in the Northeast Atlantic

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera

Andrea Klus

Andrea Klus

 

Thesis: North Atlantic climate variability in a GCM - Multidecadal cold events and climate state transitions -

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz

First position after graduation: Modelling expert at ArcelorMittal, Bremen, Germany

Fenna Bergmann

Fenna Bergmann

 

Thesis: The Bengal Fan on different temporal and spatial scales - Integrating seismoacoustic and IODP  expedition 354 data to examine internal and external controls on depositional processes

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß

First position after graduation: Postdoc at the University of Bremen, Germany

Levy Michael Otwoma

Levy Michael Otwoma

 

Thesis: Connectivity and exploitation of Acanthurus triostegus and Acanthurus leucosternon in the Indian Ocean: Application of genetics and single stock assessment to aid coral reef management

Supervisor: PD Dr. Hauke Reuter

Sophie Paul

Sophie Paul

 

Thesis: Biogeochemistry of Pacific deep-sea sediments and potential impacts of deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andrea Koschinsky-Fritsche

First job after graduation: Postdoc at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Rike Völpel

Rike Völpel

 

Thesis: Benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes during the Last Glacial Maximum and last deglaciation: Paleoceanographic inferences from an isotope-enabled global ocean model

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz

Shuwen Sun

Shuwen Sun

 

Thesis: Characterization of terrestrial organic carbon in the Amazon system: insights from biomarkers and their isotopic composition (δ13C and Δ14C)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gesine Mollenhauer

Knut Krämer

Knut Krämer

 

Thesis: Sediment reworking mechanisms in shelf seas - In situ observations from the southeastern North Sea

Supervisor: PD Dr. Christian Winter

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, Bremen, Germany

Stefan Becker

Stefan Becker

 

Thesis: Biocatalytic quantification of laminarin - a major carbohydrate polymer in the ocean

Supervisor: Dr. Jan-Hendrik Hehemann

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, Bremen, Germany

Janne Rohe

Janne Rohe

 

Thesis: Local streams and global tides - Understanding coastal marine governance in Fiji and Solomon Islands

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Achim Schlüter

 

Stefan Partelow

Stefan Partelow

 

Thesis: Finding sustainability: Advancing multiple methods to apply the social-ecological systems framework

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Achim Schlüter

First job after graduation: Postdoc at ZMT, Bremen, Germany

Martina Hollstein

Martina Hollstein

 

Thesis: Variations in surface and thermocline conditions of the Western Pacific Warm Pool - Insights from Mg/Ca and stable isotopes in foraminifera tests

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln

First job after graduation: Research Associate at Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Hannover, Germany

Katherine Nelson

Katie Nelson

 

Thesis: Experimental evidence of factors influencing voluntary contributions to marine conservation

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Achim Schlüter

First job after graduation: Postdoc at ZMT, Bremen, Germany

Miriam Sollich

Miriam Sollich

 

Thesis: Exploring the lipidomes of shallow-water and deep-sea hydrothermal systems

Supervisor: Dr. Solveig Bühring

First job after graduation: Scientist at Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN) on Vilm/Ruegen, Germany

Kim Vane

Kim Vane

 

Thesis: The organic flight recorder: Lifetime connectivity and habitat use reconstructions with fish otolith amino acids

Supervisor: Dr. Werner Ekau

First job after graduation: Postdoc at AWI

Marleen Stuhr

Marleen Stuhr

 

Thesis: Disentangling the effects of thermal stress on symbiont-bearing coral reef foraminifera from populations to proteins

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal

First job after graduation: Postdoc at ZMT Bremen

Weichao Wu

Weichao Wu

 

Thesis: Microbial activity in marine sediment constrained via lipid-based stable isotope probing method

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

First job after graduation: Postdoc at the University of Göttingen, Faculty of Agriculture

Shuchai Gan

Shuchai Gan

 

Thesis: The impact of biogeochemical processes on the composition of dissolved organic matter in marine subsurface sediments

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

Graduates 2017

 

Kerstin Kretschmer

Kerstin Kretschmer

 

Thesis: Global assessment of species-specific habitats of planktonic foraminifera - An ecosystem modeling approach -

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

Samir Al Jbour

Samir Al Jbour

 

Thesis: Metabolic and Oxidative Stress Responses of Cassiopea sp. to Environmental Stress: Towards a Better Understanding of Jellyfish Stress Tolerance

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Zimmer

First position after graduation: Postdoc at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Natalie Höppner

Natalie Höppner

 

Thesis: Reconstructing the impact of environmental changes on the river sediment dynamics of the Amazon River and Río de la Plata drainage basins with radiogenic isotopes

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Simone Kasemann

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM

Deborah Tangunan

Deborah Tangunan

 

Thesis: Late Neogene to Quaternary paleoproductivity of the western Indian Ocean and the eastern South Atlantic from coccolithophore assemblage and coccolith geochemistry

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Henrich

First job after graduation: Marie Curie fellowship, Cardiff University, UK

Rebecca Jackson

Rebecca Jackson

 

Thesis: History of ice sheets surrounding Baffin Bay and its link with oceanic conditions since MIS3

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera

First job after graduation: Postdoc at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Markus Loher

Markus Loher

 

Thesis: Mud volcanism and fluid seepage at Venere mud volcano in the Calabrian Accretionary Prism (Central Mediterranean)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bohrmann

Julia Haberkern

Julia Haberkern

 

Thesis: Contouritic depositional systems influenced by complex seafloor topography - Late Cenozoic seismoacoustic reconstructions from the Galicia and Angola Continental Margins

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß

First job after graduation: Postdoc at Fraunhofer IWES, Bremen

Grit Warratz

Grit Warratz

 

Thesis: Southwest Atlantic intermediate and deep water circulation: 20,000 years of water mass re-organization and current strength variability

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Henrich

First job after graduation: Marine geoscientist at wpd offshore solutions GmbH, Bremen, Germany

Lennart van Maldegem

Lennart van Maldegem

 

Thesis: Molecular and isotopic signatures of life surrounding the Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth events

Supervisor: Dr. Christian Hallmann

First job after graduation: Postdoc at The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia

Simon Jungblut

Simon Jungblut

 

Thesis: Ecology and ecophysiology of invasive and native decapod crabs in the southern North Sea

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hagen

First job after graduation: Teacher in a High School (Oberschule)

Roger Spranz

Roger Spranz

 

Thesis: Reducing the use of plastic bags in Indonesia

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Achim Schlüter

First job after graduation: Co-founder of Making Oceans Plastic Free

Thomas Lorscheid

Thomas Lorscheid

 

Thesis: MIS 5e relative sea level indicators: new methodologies to sustain the quantitative estimate of past sea level changes

Supervisor: Dr. Alessio Rovere

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

Martin Bartels

Martin Bartels

 

Thesis: Atlantic Water advection and glacier responses at the margins of Svalbard since the deglaciation

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

William Brocas

Will Brocas

 

Thesis: A coral perspective on last interglacial tropical Atlantic temperature and hydroclimate variability

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr.hc. Gerold Wefer

First job after graduation: Community manager at Freejam Ltd., UK

Holger Kühnhold

Holger Kühnhold

 

Thesis: Temperature tolerance of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra, Towards a systematic understanding of multi-level temperature effects

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Wolff

First job after graduation: Postdoc at the University of Cork, Ireland

Katja Hockun

Katja Hockun

 

Thesis: Southern Patagonian climate during the last 51.000 years - Insights from lipid biomarkers and their isotopes

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gesine Mollenhauer

First job after graduation: Fachreferentin "Natur und Umwelt" at Die NaturFreunde - Landesverband Brandenburg e.V.

Lalita Putchim

Lalita Putchim

 

Thesis: Coral bleaching and recovery in the Thai Andaman Sea

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Claudio Richter

Job before and after graduation: Researcher at Phuket Marine Biological Center, Thailand

Vasco Müller

Vasco Müller

 

Thesis: Temperature and Freshwater Fluxes by Individual Eddies in the North Atlantic Ocean

Supervisor: Dr. Dagmar Kieke

First job after graduation: Postdoc at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

 

Valeriia Kirillova

Valeriia Kirillova

 

Thesis: Radiogenic isotopes on marine sediments from the Baffin Bay: Implications for the sediment supply during the last deglaciation

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Simone Kasemann

First job after graduation: Exhibition scout at Universum Science Center, Bremen

Frederike Wilckens

Frederike Wilckens

 

Thesis: Isotopic signatures in hydrothermal vent fluids and the oceanic crust - tracing of sub-seafloor magmatic and hydrothermal processes

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Simone Kasemann

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

Maximilian Vahlenkamp

Maximilian Vahlenkamp

 

Thesis: Middle Eocene Paleoceanography and Astrochronology in the Western North Atlantic

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heiko Pälike

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

Tilia Breckenfelder

Tilia Breckenfelder

 

Thesis: North Atlantic Current in model and observations: Transport variability, flow paths and hydrography

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Monika Rhein

 

Igor Martins Venancio Padilha de Oliveira

Igor Venancio



Thesis: Planktonic foraminifera as signal carriers in paleoceanography: from modern biology to proxy application in the western South Atlantic

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz

First job after graduation:
Re­searcher at In­sti­tuto Nacional de Pesquisas Es­pa­ci­ais (INPE), Brazil

Linn Kristin Sanguineti

Linn Kristin Sanguineti

 

Thesis: Labrador Sea Water exported through Flemish Pass: Hydrographic trends and transport variability inducing processes

Supervisor: Dr. Dagmar Kieke

 

Amanda Ford

Amanda Ford

 

Thesis: Influences of Pacific Island human communities on benthic coral reef functioning and resilience

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild

First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen, Germany

Lélia Matos Branco

Lélia Matos Branco

 

Thesis: Temporal distribution of cold-water corals in the northwest Atlantic through the Late Quaternary: footprint of intermediate water mass circulation

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln

First job after graduation: Technical re­search as­sist­ant at Por­tuguese In­sti­tute for the Sea and At­mo­sphere (IPMA), Portugal

Asli Özmaral

Asli Özmaral

 

Thesis: Climatically controlled sedimentary processes on continental shelves

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß

First job after graduation: Marine seismic aquisition at TPIC - Turkish Petroleum International Company Ltd.

 

Nina Khuchua

Nina Khuchua

 

Thesis: Environmental protection by the Black Sea Commission. Organisation and performance in comparison with the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerd Winter

First job after graduation: Environmental Policy Expert at InterSus – Sustainability Services, Berlin, Germany

Nicole Herrmann

Nicole Herrmann

 

Thesis: Holocene climate variability and its feedbacks to hydrology and vegetation dynamics in South Africa: Insights from compound-specific stable carbon (δ13C) and hydrogen (δD) isotopes

Supervisor: PD Dr. Mathias Zabel

First job after graduation:
Postdoc at University of Hamburg, Germany

Xueqin Zhao

Xueqin Zhao

 

Thesis: Palynological investigation of Holocene climatic and oceanic variability in South Africa and the southern Benguela upwelling system

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Gerold Wefer

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM - Center for Marine Envrionmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany

Carmen Friese

Carmen Friese

 

Thesis: Modern Saharan dust collected onshore and offshore the northwest African margin: sources, transport and deposition

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln

First job after graduation: Research Scientist at Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany

Peter Müller

Peter Müller

 

Thesis: Impact of environmental conditions on geochemical proxies in tropical marine calcifiers

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal

First job after graduation:
Project manager at European Federation of Geologists (EFG), Brussles, Belgium

Georg Sebastian Völker

Georg Sebastian Völker

Thesis: Process Studies on the Generation of Near- Inertial Internal Gravity Waves by Wind

Supervisor: Dr. Maren Walter

First job after graduation: Postdoc at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Christoph Häggi

Christoph Häggi

Thesis: Using Lipid Biomarkers and their Isotopic Composition to reconstruct the Late Pleistocene Paleoclimate of the Amazon Basin

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

Sara Miñarro Villanueva

Sara Minarro
Thesis: Modelling coral reefs to support their local management: A case study in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hauke Reuter

First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Graduates 2016

 

Benjamin Baasch

Benjamin Baasch

Thesis: Electromagnetic imaging of the marine subsurface: A novel approach to assess sediment patterns and dynamics on clastic shelf systems

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thilo von Dobeneck

First job after graduation:
Seismic image processing at Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), Surrey, UK

Andreas Türke

Andreas Türke

Thesis: Alteration of oceanic crust and its implications for microbial life

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bach

First job after graduation:
Postdoc at University of Bremen, Germany

Cornelia Kwiatkowski

Conny Kwiatkowski

Thesis: Rainfall variability over the Maritime Continent during the late Holocene

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln

First job after graduation:
Placement officer at the job center in Verden, Germany

Claudia Pogoreutz

Claudia Pogoreutz

Thesis: Coral Holobiont Functioning Under Global Environmental Change

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild

First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, ZMT

Yancheng Zhang

Yancheng Zhang

Thesis: Impact of millennial-scale Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) changes on tropical South American precipitation during the last glacial period

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerold Wefer

First job after graduation:
Postdoc at the University of Hongkong, Hongkong

Rima Rachmayani

Rima Rachmayani

Thesis: Interglacial climate variability during MIS 15 to Holocene: Insight from coupled climate modeling

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz

First job after graduation: Junior Lecturer at Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia

Lena Steinmann

Lena Steinmann

Thesis: Reconstruction of volcano-tectonic processes in interplay with sedimentary deposition in the Gulf of Naples (Italy) using a seismoacoustic dataset

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß

First job after graduation: Postdoc at University of Bremen, Germany

Astrid Contreras Rosales

Astrid Contreras

Thesis: Late Quaternary Asian Monsoon variability as recorded in marine archives from the Northern Bay of Bengal and the Northern South China Sea

Supervisor: PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn

First position after graduation: Biology and Science Teacher at International School Hilversum, the Netherlands

Charlotte Kleint

Charlotte Kleint

Thesis: The speciation and organic complexation of Iron (Fe) and Copper (Cu) in different marine hydrothermal vent systems

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andrea Koschinsky

First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Jacobs University Bremen

Francesca Vallé

Francesca Vallé

Thesis: A combination of palynology and geochemical proxies to investigate Pliocene environmental and climate changes in tropical West Africa and east equatorial Atlantic

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Gerold Wefer

Claudia Färber

Claudia Färber

Thesis: Integrating short- and long-term bioerosion processes in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. André Freiwald

First job after graduation: Scientific Officer at Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG), Koblenz, Germany

Vera Meyer

Vera Meyer

Thesis: Evolution of temperature and mobilization of terrestrial organic matter in the subarctic Northwest Pacific and adjacent Beringia since the Last Glacial Maximum

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gesine Mollenhauer

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany

Gabriela Weber de Morais

Gabriela Weber de Morais

Thesis: Governance of Marine Protected Areas in Costa Rica: stability and change of institutions

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Achim Schlüter

First job after graduation: 
Project manager at Finance in Motion, Frankfurt, Germany

Christian Hansen

Christian Hansen

Thesis: Experimental studies on geochemical cycling and mineralogical modifications during alteration of ultramafic lithologies in hydrothermal systems

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bach

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at ICBM, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Maya Bode

Maya Bode

Thesis: Pelagic Biodiversity and Ecophysiology of copepods in the eastern Atlantic Ocean - latitudinal and bathymetric aspects

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hagen

First job after graduation: Postdoc at BreMare, University of Bremen, Germany

Wenwen Chen

Wenwen Chen

Thesis: Temperature reconstructions for the eastern Indian Ocean based on organic-geochemical proxies (UK’37 and TEX86 )

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gesine Mollenhauer

First job after graduation: Editor of the Journal of the University of China, University of China, Qingdao, China

Gonzalo Vicente Gomez‐Saez

Gonzalo Gomez

Thesis: Marine shallow hydrothermal systems: imprint of their exclusive biogeochemistry on dissolved organic matter and chemosynthesis

Supervisor: Dr. Solveig Bühring

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

 

Graduates 2015

 

Martin Lukas

Martin Lukas

Thesis: Reconstructing contested landscapes. Dynamics, drivers and political framings of land use and land cover change, watershed transformations and coastal sedimentation in Java, Indonesia

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Flitner

First job after graduation: 
Research Associate at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

Jan Schröder

Jan Schröder

Thesis: Intact polar lipids in marine sediments: improving analytical protocols and assessing planktonic and benthic sources

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

First job after graduation: 
Quality Manager at Hyga GmbH Mülheim, Germany

Friedrich Meyer

Fritz Meyer

Thesis: The physiology of coral reef calcifiers under local and global stressors

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild

Denise Müller

Denise Müller

Thesis: Water-atmosphere greenhouse gas exchange measurements using FTIR spectrometry

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at Institute for Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, Germany

Ines Stuhldreier

Ines Stuhldreier

Thesis: Coral reef functioning in a highly variable environment - Effects of upwelling on Pacific coral reefs of Costa Rica

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild

First job after graduation: Scientist and project leader at Institut für Fisch und Umwelt - FIUM GmbH, Rostock, Germany

Laura Rix

Laura Rix

Thesis: Carbon and nitrogen cycling by Red Sea coral reef sponges

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen, Germany

Riza Setiawan

Riza Setiawan

Thesis: The role of the Sunda Strait in the glacial to Holocene development of the eastern tropical Indian Ocean hydrography

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln

First job after graduation: 
Lecturer at Gadjah Mada University, Jogjakarta, Indonesia

Kevin Becker

Kevin Becker

Thesis: Biogeochemical significance and biomarker potential of novel glycerolipids and respiratory quinones in the marine environment

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

Thesis: Reef island dynamics on recent-past and geological timescales - New insights from the Indo-Pacific region

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen, Germany

Nanne van Hoytema

Nanne van Hoytema

Thesis: The importance of carbon dioxide and dinitrogen fixation for seasonal coral reef metabolism: from organism to ecosystem functioning

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild

First job after graduation: 
Compliance Investigator at KBC Asset Management, Brussels, Belgium

Philipp Gorris

Philipp Gorris

Thesis: Entangled? Linking governance systems for regional-scale coral reef management: Analysis of case studies in Brazil and Indonesia

Supervisor: PD Dr. Marion Glaser

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at Institut für Umweltsystemforschung (IUSF), University of Osnabrück, Germany

Ferdinand Oberle

Ferdinand Oberle

 

Thesis: Quantifying the long-term anthropogenic and natural effects of sediment resuspension on the NW Iberian shelf

Supervisor: PD Dr. Till Hanebuth

First job after graduation:
Mendehall Postdoc at the US Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Rony Küchler

Rony Küchler

 

Thesis: A revised orbital forcing concept of West African climate and vegetation variability during the Pliocene and the Last Glacial cycle: Molecular isotopic approach and proxy calibration

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Gerold Wefer

Maryam Shahraki

Maryam Shahraki

Thesis: Fish Community Structure and Food Web Dynamics in Low Rainfall Mangrove and Non-mangrove Ecosystems (Persian Gulf)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Saint-Paul

First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany

Gaëlle Quéré

Gaëlle Quéré

Thesis: Ecology of disease affecting crustose coralline algae

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai Bischof

First job after graduation:
Scientific diver at Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Saudi Arabia

Gopika Suresh

Gopika Suresh

Thesis: Offshore oil seepage visible from space: A Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) based automatic detection, mapping and quantification system

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bohrmann

First job after graduation:
SAR Specialist at Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Frankfurt, Germany

Daniella Schaumlöffel

Daniella Schaumlöffel

Thesis: Vulnerability and marine resource dependence in coastal and marine social-ecological systems

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Wolff

Christiane Schmidt

Christiane Schmidt

Thesis: Global Change Stress on symbiont-bearing benthic foraminifera

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan

Ulisse Cardini

Ulisse Cardini

Thesis: Dinitrogen fixation in coral reef ecosystems facing climate change

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen, Germany

Vanessa Bednarz

Vanessa Bednarz

Thesis: Benthic dinitrogen fixation in a Northern Red Sea coral reef under seasonally changing environmental conditions

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Monaco
 

Graduates 2014

 

Xiting Liu

Xiting Liu

Thesis: Sediment Dynamics off the East African Continental Margin during the Last Deglaciation and the Holocene: Constrained by Changes in Climate and Sea-level

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Henrich

First affiliation after graduation: 
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Nina Maier

Nina Maier

Thesis: The contested regulation of the European Seas -Analyzing the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Winfried Osthorst

First job after graduation: 
Project Manager at Particip GmbH, Freiburg, Germany

Hannah Brocke

Hannah Brocke

Thesis: Little Things Become Big - Drivers and impacts of benthic cyanobacterial mats in coral reefs

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai Bischof

First job after graduation: Postdoc at MPI Bremen, Germany

Guangchao Zhuang

Guangchao Zhuang

Thesis: Methylotrophic methanogenesis and potential methylated substrates in marine sediment

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

Maria Winterfeld

Maria Winterfeld

Thesis: Biomarker and carbon isotope constraints (d13C, ∆14C) on sources and cycling of particulate organic matter discharged by large Siberian rivers draining permafrost areas

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gesine Mollenhauer

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany

Sebastian Hammerschmidt

Sebastian Hammerschmidt

Thesis: Monitoring of Deep Fluids in the Nankai Subduction Complex, SE offshore Japan

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Achim Kopf

First job after graduation: 
Exploration Geologist at British Petroleum (BP), London, UK

Jannis Kuhlmann

Jannis Kuhlmann

Thesis: Shelf architecture and submarine landsliding at Gela Basin (Strait of Sicily)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Katrin Huhn

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

David Kaiser

David Kaiser

Thesis: Nutrient and organic matter dynamics in a macrotidal estuary impacted by human activities, the Nanliu Estuary, southern China

Supervisor: PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn

First job after graduation: 
Postdoc at Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW), Warnemünde, Germany
 

Graduates 2013

Achim Rößler
Enqing Huang
Mingming Li
Eva Kwoll
Zsuzsanna Tòth
Milena Arias-Schreiber
Kai Chu
Isabelle Schulz
Sebastian Hötzel
Stefan Wenau
Ines Voigt
Junhui Xing
Daniel Rincon-Martinez
Janna Köhler
  Name of alumni Title of thesis First affiliation after graduation
56 Stefan Wenau Seismic and acoustic imaging of fluid seepage structures in different sedimentological
and tectonic settings in the Lower Congo Basin
University of Bremen, Germany
55 Zsuzsanna Tòth Seismo-acoustic investigations of shallow free gas in the sediments of the Baltic Sea University of Bremen, Germany
54 Janna Köhler Long-term variability of internal waves and diapycnal mixing: The role of the North Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current IUP, University of Bremen, Germany
53 Sebastian Hötzel Vegetation development in West Africa of the biosphere shift during late Miocene to (early) Pliocene Robertson International Oil and Gas Consultants, Wales, UK
52 Eva Kwoll Bedforms, macroturbulence, and sediment transport at the fluid-bed interface MARUM, Germany
51 Daniel Rincon-Martinez Eastern Pacific background state and tropical South American climate history during the last 3 million years Ecopetrol S.A., Colombia
50 Isabelle Schulz Mechanisms determining species succession and dominance during an iron-induced phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocean (LOHAFEX) King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia
49 Mingming Li Diapycnal mixing in the subpolar North Atlantic Guangdong Ocean University, China
48 Junhui Xing Seismoacoustic Study of the Shallow Gas Transport and Reservoirs in the Vicinity of Seabed Fluid Seepage of the Black Sea  
47 Kai Chu Long-term morphodynamic modeling of coastal evolution of the German Bight International Marine and Dredging Consultants (IMDC), Antwerp, Belgium
46 Enqing Huang Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during the last glacial and deglacial: Inferences from the Atlantic tropical thermocline temperature and radiocarbon activity Tongji University, Shanghai, China
45 Ines Voigt Ocean circulation variability in the western South Atlantic during the Holocene MARUM, Germany
44 Milena Arias-Schreiber Institutions for Sustainable Fisheries Governance: The case of the Peruvian anchovy fishery Peruvian National Council for Science & Technology, Peru
43 Achim Rößler Observed subpolar gyre transports at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge IUP, University of Bremen, Germany

 

 

Graduates 2012

Xin Li
Wiebke Krämer
Benedict Preu
Luisa Palamenghi
Jan-Hendrik Körber
Lucia Herbeck
Arne Leider
Markus Brüning
Mahmud Islam
Hiske Fink
Matthias Kellermann
Judith Neumann
Marlene Wall
  Name of alumni Title of thesis First affiliation after graduation
42 Jan-Hendrik Körber Remote Sensing and GIS-based analysis of hydrocarbon seeps: Detection, mapping, and quantification MARUM, Germany
41 Marlene Wall Patterns and controls of calcification in tropical reefs: from the coral skeletal microstructure to reef framework scale GEOMAR Kiel, Germany
40 Mohammad Mahmudul Islam Poverty in small-scale fishing communities in Bangladesh: Contexts and responses WorldFish, Bangladesh
39 Luisa Palamenghi Tectonic and Sea Level Control on the Transport and Depositional Processes in a Siliciclastic Sedimentary Basin. Insights from the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bengal Basin, Bangladesh University of Bremen, Germany
38 Judith Neumann Effect of high CO2 and low pH on benthic communities of the deep sea MPI Bremen, Germany
37 Markus Brüning Acoustic and Visual Imaging of Active Seafloor Seepage in Various Deep-sea Environments Patzold, Köbke & Partner Engineers, Germany
36 Benedict Preu High-resolution seismo-acoustic studies of alongslope and downslope sediment transport processes shaping depositional patterns at continental margins MARUM, Germany
35 Matthias Kellermann Lipid biomolecules reveal patterns of microbial metabolism in extreme environments University of Santa Barbara, USA
34 Arne Leider Lipid biomarker proxies: Calibration and application at the southern Italian shelf (Central Mediterranean) MPI for Biogeochemistry Jena, Germany
33 Wiebke Krämer Photoecophysiology of symbiotic zooxanthellae of hermatypic corals Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Mexico
32 Hiske Fink The development of cold-water coral ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea MARUM, Germany
31 Lucia Herbeck Ecological impact of land-derived anthropogenic nutrients and organic matter on tropical estuarine and coastal systems of Hainan, China ZMT Bremen, Germany
30 Xin Li Numerical Simulation of Sediment Transport at the Agulhas Drift on the South African Gateway in relation to its Geodynamic Development BSH Hamburg, Germany

 

 

Graduates 2011

Yvonne Sawall
Nina Stark
Anna Fricke
Carolin Herborn
Ines Heßler
 
Cornelia Saukel
Claudia Propp
Cyril Giry
Qian Yu
Christina Bienhold
James Collins
Annika Förster
Bevis Fedder
Vidya Varma
  Name of alumni Title of thesis First affiliation after graduation
29 Vidya Varma Variability of the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds during the Holocene: Insights from coupled climate modelling Stockholm University
28 Bevis Fedder Access and Benefit Sharing in the Marine Realm - Legal Regulation and Challenges to Justice, Effectiveness, and Research and Development INTERCOAST, University of Bremen, Germany
27 Annika Förster Geotechnical characterisation of landslide slope-prone sediments and their impact on ecysystems University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
26 James Collins Glacial to Holocene Hydroclimate in Western Africa: Insights from Organic and Major-Element Geochemistry of Hemipelagic Atlantic Ocean Sediments MARUM, Germany
25 Christina Bienhold Diversity and ecology of bacterial communities at the deep seafloor MPI Bremen, Germany
24 Qian Yu Tide-induced coastal and estuarine suspended sediment transport and equilibrium morphology formation Nanjing University, China
23 Cyril Giry Coral-based reconstructions of southern Caribbean climate during the mid- to Late Holocene MARUM, Germany
22 Claudia Propp Sources and fate of particulate organic matter in the sediments of the Brantas estuary, Java, Indonesia BSH Hamburg, Germany
21 Cornelia Saukel Tropical Southeast Pacific Continent-Ocean-Atmosphere Linkages since the Pliocene inferred from Eolian Dust FUGRO OSAE GmbH Bremen, Germany
20 Regine Moll Impact of mangroves and an agriculture-dominated hinterland on the carbon and nutrient biogeochemistry in the Segara Anakan Lagoon, Java, Indonesia AWI Helgoland, Germany
19 Ines Heßler Oceanography, Climate and Vegetation development of tropical Africa during the last glacial: Palynology and geochemistry of marine sediments of ODP Site 1078 (off Angola) University of Göttingen
18 Carolin Herbon Spatial and temporal variability in benthic food webs of the mangrove fringed Segara Anakan Lagoon in Java, Indonesia

ZMT Bremen, Germany

17 Anna Fricke Modulating effects of ultraviolet radiation on the succession on tropical macroalgal communities ZMT Bremen, Germany
16 Nina Stark Geotechnical Investigation of Sediment Remobilization Processes Using Dynamic Penetrometers MARUM, Germany

15 Yvonne Sawall Coral resistance to natural and anthropogenic disturbances IFM-Geomar, Kiel, Germany

 

 

Graduates 2010

Stephanie Kusch
Luisa Cristini
Franciska Steinhoff
 
Markus Eisele
Li Wang
Friederike Ebersbach
 
 
  Name of alumni Title of thesis First affiliation after graduation
14 Friederike Ebersbach Flux and modification of sinking particles: Three field studies in the Southern Ocean AWI Bremerhaven, Germany
13 Li Wang Tide Driven Dynamics of Subaqueous Fluid Mud Layers in Turbidity Maximum Zones of German Estuaries Yangtze Estuary Waterway Administration Bureau, Ministry of Transport, China
12 Markus Eisele The long term development of cold water coral ecosystems in the NE-Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea MARUM, Germany

11 Katharina Jantzen Regulatory Mechanisms in Fisheries: The contribution of Quota Management to sustainable fisheries in the North Atlantic in the period 1977-2007 Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut (vTI), Hamburg, Germany
10 Franciska Steinhoff Phlorotannins as UV protective substances in early developmental stages of brown algae AWI Bremerhaven, Germany
9 Luisa Cristini Cenozoic Antarctic Glaciation: an Integrated climate-ice sheet model approach MPI Hamburg, Germany

8 Stephanie Kusch Tracing time in the ocean: Unraveling depositional and preservational timescales using compound-specific radiocarbon analysis of biomarkers from marine sediments AWI Bremerhaven, Germany

 

 

Graduates 2009

Feng Ding
Uwe Stöber
Frauke Schmidt
Eva Niedermeyer
Yu-Shih Lin
Florence Schubotz
  Name of alumni Title of thesis First affiliation after graduation
7 Stephan Klapp Natural Gas Hydrates - from the Microstructure towards a Geological Understanding Shell International Exploration and Production B.V.
6 Florence Schubotz Microbial community characterization and carbon turnover in methane-rich marine environments - case studies in the Gulf of Mexico and the Black Sea MARUM, Germany
5 Yu-Shih Lin In vitro study of microbial carbon cycling in subseafloor sediments MARUM, Germany
4 Eva Niedermeyer Northwest African Sahel climate variations during Holocene/Late Pleistocene: Insights from plant wax stable hydrogen (δD) and carbon (δ13C) isotopic composition and sea surface temperature California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA
3 Frauke Schmidt Molecular level studies on the distribution and fate of organic matter at continental margins GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam GFZ, Germany
2 Uwe Stöber Mixing and energy flux estimates from hydrographic measurements in the Deep Western Boundary Current of the North Atlantic Oregon State University, USA

1 Feng Ding The role of near-surface sediment structures in distribution and nature of cold seeps China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec), China