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)
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1994-1998 | Bachelor and Master degree in Archaeology – University of Leuven (Belgium)
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Awards, grants prizes and scholarships
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“ |
Other activities
Co-founder and speaker of the “Arbeitskreis Geoarchäologie“ between 2003-2015.