CV

Employment History

   
11/2008 - Universitätsassistent (Assistant Professor) in the Tropical Glaciology Group at the University of Innsbruck, Austria  
02/2008 - 10/2008 Postdoctoral Researcher in the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA  
10/2006 - 10/2008 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway  
09/2003 - 09/2006 PhD Student at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in the NOClim II Project, Modul A, Bergen, Norway  
04/2002 - 08/2003 Research Assistant at Dept. of Theory and Modelling, Institut für Meereskunde , Kiel, Germany  
09/2000 - 03/2002 Research Assistant at Dept. of Marine Physics, Institut für Meereskunde , Kiel, Germany  

Education

     
09/2003 - 09/2006 PhD Student at Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and Geophysical Institute, Univ. of Bergen, Norway [Thesis as pdf-file]  
08/2003 Diploma in physical oceanography at Institut für Meereskunde, Univ. of Kiel, Germany [Thesis as pdf-file]  
1997 High School Graduation from Friedrich-Spee-Gymnasium, Geldern, Germany  

Summer Schools & Research Courses

     
07/2007 Transferable and Professional Challenges in Interdisciplinary Global Climate Research - A Summer School for Future European Research Leaders, organized by the Coimbra Group, Espegrend, Norway
10/2006 Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium IV, Honolulu, HI, USA
08/2006 CMG Summer School on Modern Mathematical Methods in Physical Oceanography, Breckenridge, CO, USA
06/2006 ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Meeting for Young Researchers on Climate Change, Nynäshamn, Sweden
11/2004 Quaternary Climate Records and Climate Models, UNIS, Longyearbyen, Svalbard
09/2004 1st International Nansen-Zhu Summer School on Climate and Environmental Research, Nansen-Zhu Research Center, Beijing, China