Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmiedl

- Red Sea deep-water ventilation and climate variability during the past 200,000 years

- African-Asian Monsoon Margins

- Neotectonic evolution of the island of Rhodes (Greece) during the Pleistocene: an integrated micropaleontological and structural geology approach

- Unraveling the signals of sea level and storminess of the past millennium (southern North Sea)

- Dynamics of North African Humid Periods of the last 130 kyr

- Short-term climate dynamics and biogeochemical processes in the Gulf of Taranto: From regional proxy variations to climate records

- Benthic foraminiferal stable carbon isotopes as a proxy for organic matter fluxes to the sea floor

Current Position: Professor for Micropaleontology, University of Hamburg

Educational and academic career:

since 2006: Professor for micropaleontology (W2), University of Hamburg

2002 - 2006: Heisenberg Fellow, University of Leipzig, OSU Columbus (USA) and Université d’Angers (France)

2001 - 2002: Assistant Professor (C2), University of Leipzig

2001: Habilitation and venia legendi for historical geology and paleontology, University of Tübingen.

Thesis: Climatic forcing of deep-sea ecosystem variability: Evidence from recent and fossil benthic foraminifera.

1999 - 2001: Research associate (Postdoc), University of Tübingen

1998 - 1999: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, Ohio (USA)

1995 - 1998:  Research associate (Postdoc), University of Tübingen

2001: Ph.D., University of Bremen. Thesis: Rekonstruktion der spätquartären Tiefenwasserzirkulation und Produktivität im östlichen Südatlantik anhand von benthischen Foraminiferenvergesellschaftungen.

1995 - 1998: Research associate, Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven

1985 - 1991: Study of Geology and Paleontology (Diplom), University of Würzburg

Scholarships and awards:

2002-2005: Heisenberg fellowship

1998-1999: Ohio State University postdoctoral fellowship

1992: Annette-Barthelt award for marine research

1991-1993: PhD fellowship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

1989-1991: Undergraduate fellowship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Professional memberships:

- Paläontologische Gesellschaft

- Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research

- The Micropaleontological Society

- Deutscher Hochschulverband

Research Cruises and Field Experience:

Meteor M74/1b (Arabian Sea, 2007), M69/1 (Western Mediterranean Sea, 2006), Poseidon P339 (Gulf of Taranto, 2006), M51/3 (Eastern Mediterranean Sea, 2001), M44/1 (Marmara Sea, 1999), M40/4 (Mediterranean Sea, 1998), Tethys and Europe BBLL1-4 (Gulf of Lions, 1996-1998), M35/1 (Caribbean Sea, 1996), M31/3 (Arabian Sea, 1995), M31/2 (Red Sea, 1995), Polarstern ANT XI/4 (East Antarctica, 1994), ANT IX/3 (Weddell Sea, 1991), ANT VIII/6 (East Antarctica, 1990).
Field work northern Italy (1997-1999), Field work Slovenia and Hungary (1994-2000).

Die Publikationen befinden sich auf ORCID.