Curriculum Vitae

Anstellungen

Seit 2013	Wissenschaftliche Angestellte am Senckenberg-Zentrum für Menschliche Evolution und Paläoumwelt und Arbeitsgruppenleitung Archäobotanik am Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Universität Tübingen
2010-2013	Heisenberg-Stipendiatin (DFG) an der Universität Tübingen mit dem Projekt Climate, Agriculture and Society: On the sustainability of early agricultural systems in the Near East
Seit 2009	Privatdozentin für Archäobotanik und Umweltarchäologie am Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Universität Tübingen
2006-2007	Interdisziplinäre Forschungsstipendiatin am Center for Climatic Research – Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, an der Universität Madison-Wisconsin
Seit 1992	Kuratorin der archäobotanischen Referenzsammlung am Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Universität Tübingen

Ausbildung

2001-2009	Habilitation (Margarethe-von-Wrangell Programm)
1998	Dissertation/Promotion Dr. rer. nat. (Universität Tübingen) Economy and Environment in the Bronze Age Troad: The Archaeobotany of Troy and Kumtepe
1994	Masterarbeit (Universität Tübingen) Pflanzenreste einer neolithischen Seeufersiedlung (Wangen/Lake of Constance)
1992	Freisemester zur Teilnahme an der Unterwasserausgrabung Greifensee-Böschen (ZH, Schweiz)
1988-1996	Studium der Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Botanik, Geologie und Archäobotanik an den Universitäten Tübingen, Basel und Sheffield

Projekte

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)