Urgeschichte und Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

Since 2013 Research scientist at the University of Tübingen and the Tübingen Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironments
2010-2013 Heisenberg-Awardee DFG Climate, Agriculture and Society: On the sustainability of early agricultural systems in the Near East
Since 2009 Docent, Institute of Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Germany
2006-2007 Interdisciplinary Research Fellow am Center for Climatic Research – Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, an der Universität Madison-Wisconsin
Since 1992 Curator of the archaeobotanical reference collection

Education

2001-2009 Habilitation (Margarethe-von-Wrangell Programm)
1998

PhD dissertation (at University of Tübingen):

  • Economy and Environment in the Bronze Age Troad: The Archaeobotany of Troy and Kumtepe
1994

Master thesis at University of Tübingen:

  • Plant remains of a Neolithic lake side settlement (Wangen/Lake of Constance)
1992 Underwater excavation of the Bronze Age settlement Greifensee-Böschen (ZH, Switzerland)
1988 - 1996 Studies in Prehistory, Geology, Botany and Archaeobotany at the Universities of Tübingen, Basel and Sheffield

Projects

2019-2023 ERC  - ClaSS: Climate, Landscape, Settlement and Society: Exploring Human-Environment Interaction in the Ancient Near East (with Dan Lawrence, University of Durham and Dan Hill, University of Leeds)
2019-2022 DFG (Ri 1193 / 14-1) Biogenic carbonate in archaeobotanical seeds: A new proxy for reconstructing agricultural systems in early societies
2013-2016 Member of the CRANE project (University of Toronto), including the Tell Tayinat project
2013-2025 SFB 1070 - TP A05 (DFG) Development and importance of agricultural resources in Bronze and Iron Age Palestine (together with Prof. Jens Kamlah and Dr. Britt Starkovich)
2013-2015 DFG (Ri 1193 / 6-2) Climate, Agriculture and Society – On the Sustainability of Early Agricultural Systems in the Near East
2010-2013 DFG (Ri 1193 / 5-1; / 6-1) Climate, Agriculture and Society – On the Sustainability of Early Agricultural Systems in the Near East
2006-2009 DFG (German Research Council)-Project "The development of economy and environment from the Early Bronze to Iron Age in the northern Levant and northern Mesopotamia"
2004-2005 The economic and environmental development from the Middle Bronze to the Early Iron Age in Northern Syria, “Structural fund for scientists”, University Tübingen
2003-2004 A database for plant remains from Bronze Age and younger Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean sites , DFG (German Research Council)
2002-2003 Carbon isotopes and x-ray diffractometry of archaeobotanically relevant seed finds, BMBF (Ministry of Education and Research) (together with Dr. K. Pustovoytov)
2001-2005 Prehistoric wild plant floras of the Near East, Margarete-von Wrangell-scholarship of the MWK (Ministry of Science and Arts) Baden-Württemberg
2001-2004 Several smaller grants from the DFG and the Faculty of Geoscience at Tübingen for the participation in conferences and workshops
1994-1996 Ph.D. scholarship of the „Landesgraduiertenförderung“ (federal grant for graduates)