Professional experience
Since 2024: Professor of geology and biogeochemistry, Universität Hamburg
2016 – 2023: Emmy Noether Group leader at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
2012 – 2015: Marie Curie Fellow/postdoctoral researcher at the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, USA and GEOMAR
2010 – 2012: Postdoctoral researcher within the Collaborative Research Centers 574 (Volatiles and fluids in subduction zones) and 754 (Climate‐biogeochemistry interactions in the tropical ocean)
Academic qualification
2019: Habilitation at Kiel University, thesis title: “Sedimentary iron and trace metal cycling in oxygen minimum zones: Implications for marine productivity and redox evolution”
2007 – 2010: PhD in geochemistry, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Kiel University, thesis title: “Pore water expulsion at submarine cold seeps: Geochemical evidence for short‐cuts between crust, sediments and ocean”
2000 – 2007: Diplom in geoecology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Université de Bordeaux, France
