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Work Experience

11.2022 – present      Deputy group leader – Laboratory for the Analysis of Radiocarbon with AMS (LARA), University of Bern, Switzerland

09.2020 – present     Senior Research Assistant (Group leader) – Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Ambizione, University of Bern, Switzerland

03.2020 – 08.2020    Postdoctoral fellow – SNSF Return CH Fellowship, University of Bern, Switzerland.

08.2018 – 02.2020    Postdoctoral fellow – SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellowship, University of Oxford, UK.

02.2017 – 07.2018     Postdoctoral fellow – SNSF Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship, University of Oxford, UK.

01.2012 – 09.2016     Research assistant – Geological Institute, ETH Zürich, Biogeoscience group.

01.2010 – 12.2011      Teaching assistant – Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich.

Education

01.2013 – 07.2016       Ph.D. – ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Defense date: 08. July 2016

Dissertation title: “Characterizing the legacy of carbon in karst systems: isotopic and chronological applications on stalagmites.” (Diss. ETH No. 23601)
Advisors: Prof. Timothy Eglinton (ETH Zürich), Dr. James Baldini (Durham University)

09.2010 – 12.2011       M.Sc. in Atmospheric and Climate Sciences – ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Master’s thesis: “Reconstruction of late Quaternary Indian Summer Monsoon climate from two stalagmites from Krem Mawmluh, Meghalaya, NE India”
Advisors: Dr. Sebastian Breitenbach (ETH Zürich), Prof. Gerald Haug (ETH Zürich)

09.2007 – 07.2010       B.Sc. in Earth Sciences – University of Zürich, Switzerland

Prizes and Awards

2021       EGU 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award (Climate: Past, Present and Future division)

Award recognises scientific achievement made by an Early Career Scientist in the field covered by the related division.

2017       ETH Silver Medal for outstanding doctoral thesis

Prize for outstanding doctoral thesis, based on the evaluation of referees, co-referees, and external referees (within 8% of all theses in the department and ETH Zürich).

2012       ETH Silver Medal for outstanding master thesis

Prize for outstanding master thesis, based on grading (6.0, i.e., highest grade), written confirmation of the quality of the thesis by the advisors, grade point average of master studies 5.25 (of 6). Within 2.5% of all theses in the department and ETH, based on originality of the thesis.

Selected successful Grant Applications

2019       Probing the potential of STalagmite Organic Matter as a direct tracer for terrestrial ecosystem dynamics and their response to past Climate Change (STOM-CC)                    

SNSF Ambizione Fellowship (48 months, Laboratory for Radiocarbon Analysis, University of Bern), 950,541 CHF (ca. 901,870 EUR).

2019       Exploring the potential of stalagmite organic carbon isotope records as a novel proxy for past ecosystem conditions                         

SNSF Postdoc Mobility return CH grant (12 months, Univ. of Bern), 125,386 CHF (ca. 118,966 EUR).

2018       Constraining the potential of stalagmites as quantitative archives for past soil carbon dynamics                     

SNSF Postdoc Mobility grant (18 months, Univ. of Oxford, UK), 81,500 CHF (ca. 77,327 EUR).

2016       Permafrost thawing in a warming climate – reconstructions from Siberian stalagmites                     

SNSF Early Postdoc Mobility grant (18 months, Univ. of Oxford, UK), 74,250 CHF (ca. 70,448 EUR).