Markus L. Fischer, M.Sc.
Doctoral student
Contact details
Room S531
Hölderlinstr. 12
72074 Tübingen
Germany
Research Interests
Modelling, Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, GIS, R
Climate, Paleo and Ecology
Anthropology and Human Evolution
Curriculum Vitae
Since 03/2019 | Ph.D. student, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany |
10/2018 – 05/2019 | Scientific Assistant, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenviroment, Tübingen |
01/2018 – 09/2019 | Scientific Assistant, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany |
08/2016 – 01/2017 | Scientific Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
08/2015 – 04/2016 | Intern at University of Ibagué, Colombia |
10/2014 – 09/2018 | Master of Science, Physical Geography, University of Leipzig |
10/2014 – 05/2015 | Scientific Assistant, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig |
10/2010 – 09/2014 | Bachelor of Science, Geography, University of Leipzig |
Project
Environmental-modelling and remote sensing linked to lacustrine climate proxies: the rift basin Chew Bahir (Ethiopia) during the late Pleistocene, Supervised by: Jun. Prof. Dr. Annett Junginger and apl. Prof. Dr. Martin H. Trauth
Funding
03/2019 – 03/2022 | Ph.D. scholarship, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft |
08/2015 – 04/2016 | IAESTE internship & DAAD foreign promotion |
Field Trips
- Pestenacker (2020)
- Romania (2019)
- Ethiopia (2018)
- Marocco (2016)
- Colombia (2016)
Publications
Markowska, M., Martin, A., Vonhof, H.B., Guinoiseau, D., Fischer, M.L., Zinaye, B., Galer, S.J.G., Asrat, A., Junginger. A., 2022. A multi-isotope and modelling approach for constraining hydro-connectivity in the East African Rift System, southern Ethiopia. In review at Quaternary Science Reviews. Accepted.
Fischer, M.L., Bachofer, F., Yost, C.L., Bludau, I.J.E., Schepers, C., Foerster, V., Lamb, H., Schäbitz, F., Asrat, A., Trauth, M.H., Junginger, A., (2021) A Phytolith Supported Biosphere-Hydrosphere Predictive Model for Southern Ethiopia: Insights into Paleoenvironmental Changes and Human Landscape Preferences since the Last Glacial Maximum. Geosciences
Fischer, M.L., Markowska, M., Bachofer, F., Foerster, V.E., Zielhofer, C., Asrat, A., Trauth, M.H., Junginger, A., 2020. Determining the pace and magnitude of 20,000 years of lake level changes in southern Ethiopia using Lake Balance Modeling and SEBAL. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, Article 197. doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.00197.
Conference and Workshop Contributions
2021
Fischer, M.L., Bachofer, F., Trauth, M.H., Junginger, A. (2021). How dry was the LGM? A Biosphere-Hydrosphere modelling approach for the paleo-lake Chew Bahir and Omo-River catchment in southern Ethiopia. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (EGU21-5923)
2020
Schmidt J., Kertscher C., Reichert M., Ballasus H., Köhler A., Schneider B., Dietze E., Benkkadour A., Mikdad A., Werther L., Bolland A., Suchan E. B., Fischer M. L., Pichat S., Suchodoletz Hv., Fletcher W., Mischke S, Zielhofer C. (2020). Variability of Holocene climate and geomorphological dynamics in the Middle Atlas, Morocco. In AK Geomoph conference – talk.
Fischer, M. L., Sittaro, F., Manntschke, C., Yost, C., Foerster, V. E., Schäbitz, F., ... & Junginger, A. (2020, May). Linking Paleo Vegetation Modelling with a Phytolith Record for the African Humid Period (15-5 ka BP) of the Omo-River-Lowlands and the Chew Bahir Basin, southern Ethiopia. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (p. 5888).
Kirkitadze, G., Elashvili, M., Navrozashvili, L., Lobjanidze, M., Losaberidze, L., Koff, T., Fischer, M L., Skokan, A., Khosravichenar, A., von Suchodoletz, H. (2020, May). Reconstructing the Holocene paleoenvironment of the semi-arid Shiraki Plain of eastern Georgia-a center of settlement activity during the Late Bronze and Early Iron age. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (p. 5768).
Nickolaus, P., Markowska, M., Vonhof, H., Bocherens, H., Martin, A., Zinaye, B., Fischer, M.L., Asfawossen; A. & Junginger, A. (2020, May). Insights into the African Humid Period from fossil stromatolites and Etheria elliptica shells from the Chew Bahir Basin, southern Ethiopia. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (p. 18611).
2019
Fischer, M. L., Annett Junginger Talk: The modern analogue of Chew Bahir’s catchment as the key to the past In: Annual Chew Bahir Core Drilling Project Meeting, Duesseldorf, Germany, 2019.
Fischer, M. L., Markowska, M., Bachofer, F., Foerster, V. E., Asrat, A., & Junginger, A. (2019, January). Between Deserts and Lakes: Determining the pace and magnitude of environmental changes in southern Ethiopia. In Geophysical Research Abstracts (Vol. 21).
Markowska, M., Vonhof, H., Fischer, M. L., Zinaye, B., Foester, V. E., Asrat, A., ... & Junginger, A. (2019, January). How wet is wet? Quantifying hydrological changes over the past 15,000 years in the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia. In Geophysical Research Abstracts (Vol. 21).
Markowska, M., Vonhof, H.B., Fischer, M.L., Zinaye, B., Foerster, V.E., Schaebitz, F., Lamb, H.F., Asrat, A., Junginger A., 2019. Modern Sr isotope hydrology as a basis for interpreting the 15 kyr paleo-record of Chew Bahir, south Ethiopia. INQUA, Dublin (Ireland).
2018
Fischer, M. L., Monika Markowska, Annett Junginger Talk: Determining transition times and overflow thresholds over the last 15,000 years using Lake-Balance-Modelling and SEBAL: Lake Chew Bahir, Ethiopia In: Annual Chew Bahir Core Drilling Project Meeting, Arba Minch, Ethiopia, 2018.
Fischer, M. L., Felix Bachofer, Christoph Zielhofer, Annett Junginger Poster: Wet feet or walking on sunshine? A hydro-modelling-approach of the Eastern African rift-basin and paleo-lake Chew Bahir In: MULTIPP Mediterranean Desert Margin and Drylands Workshop, Leipzig, Germany, 2018.