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Graduates 2024
Lili Sanna Hufnagel
Thesis: Formation, transportation and transformation processes of organic matter from the surface ocean to the deep sea
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Morten Iversen
First position adter graduation: Postdoc at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Magdeburg
Opeyemi Ogunleye
Thesis:
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß
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
Thesis: Glacial to Holocene development of Baffin Bay sedimentary systems: processes, provenances, and patterns
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln
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
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
Thesis: The Mexican Caribbean reefs: from benthic changes and stressors towards a sustainable management strategy
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild
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
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
Thesis:
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. André Freiwald
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thesis: Natural variation of pelagic carbonate production during Cenozoic warm periods
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera
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
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
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
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
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
Thesis:
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bohrmann
First job after graduation: Project Manager Marine Geology, Skyborn Renewables, Bremen, Germany
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
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
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
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
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
Thesis: Principles of the axial pile setup
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tobias Mörz
First job after graduation: Geotechnical Engineer at COWI, Hamburg, Germany
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thesis: Bacterial utilization of anionic polysaccharides from macroalgae
Supervisor: Dr. Jan Hendrik Hehemann
First position after graduation: Biotechnologist at Lonza, Basel, Switzerland
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thesis: Ecophysiological performance and life cycle strategies of North Sea shrimps
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hagen
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
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
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
Thesis: Global climate and Indonesian Throughflow during the Middle Miocene Climate Transition: a modeling approach
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz
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
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
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
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
Thesis: Ecology and stable isotope geochemistry of modern planktonic foraminifera in the Northeast Atlantic
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thesis: Local streams and global tides - Understanding coastal marine governance in Fiji and Solomon Islands
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Achim Schlüter
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thesis: Mud volcanism and fluid seepage at Venere mud volcano in the Calabrian Accretionary Prism (Central Mediterranean)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bohrmann
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thesis: Labrador Sea Water exported through Flemish Pass: Hydrographic trends and transport variability inducing processes
Supervisor: Dr. Dagmar Kieke
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hauke Reuter
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Graduates 2016
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
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bach
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at University of Bremen, Germany
Cornelia Kwiatkowski
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln
First job after graduation:
Placement officer at the job center in Verden, Germany
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
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
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
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
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
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andrea Koschinsky
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Jacobs University Bremen
Francesca Vallé
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Gerold Wefer
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
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gesine Mollenhauer
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany
Gabriela Weber de Morais
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Achim Schlüter
First job after graduation:
Project manager at Finance in Motion, Frankfurt, Germany
Christian Hansen
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bach
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at ICBM, University of Oldenburg, Germany
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
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
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
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Flitner
First job after graduation:
Research Associate at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany
Jan Schröder
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
First job after graduation:
Quality Manager at Hyga GmbH Mülheim, Germany
Friedrich Meyer
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild
Denise Müller
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Institute for Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, Germany
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
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen, Germany
Riza Setiawan
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln
First job after graduation:
Lecturer at Gadjah Mada University, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
Kevin Becker
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Thomas Mann
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen, Germany
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
Supervisor: PD Dr. Marion Glaser
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Institut für Umweltsystemforschung (IUSF), University of Osnabrück, Germany
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
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
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
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai Bischof
First job after graduation:
Scientific diver at Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Saudi Arabia
Gopika Suresh
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bohrmann
First job after graduation:
SAR Specialist at Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Frankfurt, Germany
Daniella Schaumlöffel
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Wolff
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
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
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wild
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Monaco
Graduates 2014
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
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Winfried Osthorst
First job after graduation:
Project Manager at Particip GmbH, Freiburg, Germany
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
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Maria Winterfeld
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gesine Mollenhauer
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany
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
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Katrin Huhn
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany
David Kaiser
Supervisor: PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn
First job after graduation:
Postdoc at Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW), Warnemünde, Germany
Graduates 2013
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
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
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
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
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 |