Curriculum Vitae

Education

Summer 2001	Specialisation course in wood anatomy and identification at the university of Durham (UK)
2000	Training in performing simple Thermoluminescence applications at the “Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre” of East Kilbride – UK (Dr. David Sanderson)
1998-2002	PhD at the University of Edinburgh (UK) “Cypriot Archaeological Sites in the Landscape: An Alluvial Geoarchaeological Approach” (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Edgar Peltenburg und Dr. Geraint Coles).
1994-1998	Bachelor and Master degree in Archaeology – University of Leuven (Belgium) Master thesis „The Chalcolithic Period on Cyprus“ (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. M. Waelkens)

2009-1010	Projektförderung für NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen (Uni Tübingen): "Mensch und Umwelt im Vorderen Orient in den letzten 10.000 Jahren"
2008-2013	Margarete von Wrangell-Habilitationsstipendium
2006-2008	"Eliteförderung" of the "Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg" "Spätquartäre Interaktionen zwischen Mensch und Umwelt im fruchtbaren Halbmond"
2005	“Gouden Klaver” Prize of the “Belgische Stichting Roeping”
2004	INQUA support for the “Eastern Mediterranean/Near Eastern Geoarchaeology Meeting”
2002-2004	DFG Postdoktorandin Stipendium in the Graduate College “Anatolia and its neighbours”
2001	Council for British Research in the Levant Research Award
2001	Small Project Grant – University of Edinburgh – Development and Alumni Services
2000	„Belgische Stichting Roeping“ Award
2000, 2001	Scottish Studentship (SAAS)
	several Abercromby Grants from the University of Edinburgh
1999	Cyprus Grant for interdisciplinary Research on Cyprus (PIO)
1999	Prehistoric Society Research Award
1999	Belgian Benevolent Society Award (British Council)
1994	Jacques Kets Prize from the Zoo of Antwerp with the work „Nettles in Focus“

Co-founder and speaker of the “Arbeitskreis Geoarchäologie“ between 2003-2015.