Curriculum Vitae

October 2022 PhD student | Tuebingen University, Germany | Institute for Geosciences | Titel: How wet is wet? Reconstruction of water availability in the cradle of Humanity | Supervisors: Dr. Annett Junginger (U. Tü) & Dr. Hubert Vonhof (MPI Mainz).

2019 - 2022 Master of Science Geoecology | Tuebingen University, Germany | Thesis: Grain size analysis as a tool for reconstruction of climate driven sediment provenance changes from the Marathousa MAR18-1A core, Megalopolis basin, Greece | Supervisors: Dr. Annett Junginger (U. Tü.) & Dr. Martin Ebner (U. Tü.) | September, 27^th, 2022.

2016 - 2019 Bachelor of Science Geoecology | Tuebingen University, Germany| Thesis: Sedimentanalysen am Kern CHI18-3A des Chilwa-Sees in Süd-Malawi | Supervisors: Dr. Annett Junginger (U. Tü.) & Dr. Philipp Munz (U. Tü.) | November, 19^th, 2019.

2015 - 2016 Volunteer Year | Senckenberg Research Institute for Conservation Genetics, Gelnhausen, Germany | Work experience: sample processing and management, custom contact, database support.

National and international work experience

Zoological excursion and geoecological field internship to Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul,  Bahia & Rio Grande do sul | February - Avril 2019 ), VW Fieldschool Malawi (Learning from the past to shape the future, environmental change of Lake Malawi & Lake Chiwondo | October 2022 & 2023), Germany (Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Mainz | Mai - Juli 2023).

Publications

Bludau, I.J.E., Wagner, B., Kirscher, U., Schindler, M., Zachow, C., Schmidt, J., Leicher, N., Muttoni, G., Perini, S., Tourloukis, V., Panagopoulou, E., Karkanas, P., Harvati, K., Junginger, A. (2026). Drilling the Marathousa paleo-lake in Greece (Peloponnese): inferring the environmental context of a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site. Boreas. http://doi.org/10.1111/bor.70061

Foerster, V; Asrat; A.; Ramsey, C. B.; Brown, E. T.; Deino, A.; Erbello, A.; Fischer, M. L.; Gebregiorgis, D.; Junginger, A.; Kaboth-Bahr, S.; Lane, C. S.; Opitz, S.; Noren, A.; Roberts, H. M.; Tiedemann, R.; Vidal, C.-M.; Viehberg, F.; Vogelsang, R.; Zachow, C.; Zinaye, B.; Cohen, A. S; Lamb, H. F.; Schaebitz, F.; Trauth, M. H. (2026). Scientific deep drilling in the Chew bahir basin: advantages and pitfalls of two overlapping sediment cores. Scientific Drilling. https://sd.copernicus.org/articles/35/61/2026/

Bludau, I.J.E., Papadopoulou, P., Iliopoulos, G., Weiss, M., Schnabel, E., Thompson, N., Tourloukis, V., Zachow, C., Kyrikou, S., Konidaris, G.E., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Junginger, A. (2021). Lake Level Changes and their Paleo-Climatic Implications at the MIS12 Lower Paleolithic (Middle Pleistocene) Site Marathousa 1, Greece. Frontiers in Earth Science. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.668445

Conferences

Zachow, C., Vonhof, H.B., Galer, S.J.G., Förster, V., Markowska, M., Junginger, A. (2024). Indian ocean sea surface temperature control on the  50,000-year Strontium isotope Chew Bahir lake record, Eastern Africa. ICDP/IODP conference in Bremerhaven. 

Zachow, C., Vonhof, H.B., Galer, S.J.G., Förster, V., Markowska, M., Junginger, A. (2024). Indian ocean sea surface temperature control on the  50,000-year Strontium isotope Chew Bahir lake record, Eastern Africa. EGU conference Vienna. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-11537

Zachow, C., Vonhof, H.B., Galer, S.J.G., Förster, V., Junginger, A. (2023). How wet is wet? Using strontium isotope ratios to quantify wet intervals in the 50,000-year Chew Bahir Lake record. ICDP/IODP conference in Hannover.