Research Interests and Education

Water isotopes (hydrogen and oxygen) found in speleothem fluid inclusions provide direct information on past precipitation and moisture source changes. Techniques being used at the University of Basel allow to extract this water and analyse their stable isotope compositions (dD and d¹⁸O) with the main objective to estimate paleotemperature. Therefore, combined with the robust dating of speleothems, they have great potential as proxies to examine paleoclimate ranging from the Holocene up to the Pleistocene time intervals. However, there are large regional discrepancies found between current paleoclimate records and temperature estimates that need to be resolved.

Through my PhD project I will create water isotope and paleotemperature records covering several glacial and interglacial intervals for the alpine foreland and alpine region during the Holocene and Pleistocene in Central Europe. For this I will develop data from fluid inclusion waters and calcite stable isotopes from speleothems collected in Switzerland and neighbouring countries.

Educational Background and Professional Experience

since Oct 2022
PhD student at the Quaternary Geology Group, University of Basel

Aug 2022
Geneva Summer School: Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes, University of Geneva

Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
Master of Science in Geoscience, University of Basel

Feb 2020 – Dec 2020
Student trainee, Bfm Umwelt GmbH, Munich

Jun 2018 – Jul 2021
Student trainee, temporary assignments at the US Army training area Hohenfels (Environmental Division), LGA Institut für Umweltgeologie und Altlasten GmbH, Nuremberg

Aug 2015 – Dec 2018
Bachelor of Science in Geoscience, University of Basel

Apr 2017 – May 2018
Scientific employee, University Basel