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Prof. Dominik Fleitmann - Short CV

 

Academic Appointments

since 2019Full Professor in Quaternary Geology, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland    
2012-2019Full Professor (Chair in Palaeoclimatology and Archaeology), Department of Archaeology and Centre for Past Climate Change, School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, UK    
2006-2012SNF-Professor (Associate Professor), Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland    
2005- 2006Senior postdoctoral researcher, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, USA    
2003-2005Postdoctoral research scholar, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, USA    
2001-2003Postdoctoral research scientist, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland
1997-2001Ph.D. student, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland    
1994-1997Graduate research assistant, Institute and Museum for Geology and Palaeontology, University of Göttingen, Germany



Education

2002Ph.D. in Geology, “Annual to millennial Indian Ocean monsoon variability recorded in Holocene and Pleistocene stalagmites from Oman”, University of Bern, Switzerland 
1997Diploma in Geology, “Clastic input into the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden by the Arabian monsoon - Analysis of piston cores”, Institute and Museum for Geology and Palaeontology, University of Göttingen, Germany    



 Awards and Honors

2009Editor’s Choice (2009). “Dates in a Cave”. Science, 326, 503       
2007Editor’s Choice (2007). “Washing soils away”. Science, 315, 1339     
2002Award for “Best Research in Yemen”, Yemeni Scientific Research Foundation, Sana'a, Yemen Science Conference 2002 in Taiz, Yemen
2002Travel award of the IGBP poster session, Swiss Global Change Day 2002, Bern, Switzerland
2001Poster award, EURESCO Conference "Achieving climate predictability using paleoclimate data", Castelvecchio, Italy
2000Outstanding Student Poster Award, American Geophysical Union, AGU 2000 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California

 

Professional Service

2020-presentReview Panel ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche), France          
2019-present Advisory member of INQUA Palaeoclimate Commission (PALCOM)    
2018DFG Reviewer of Clusters of Excellence Funding Line, Cologne, Germany
2017-2019Director of Centre for Past Climate Change, University of Reading, UK
2017-2018Member of the Scientific Committee of the 9th International Symposium on Eastern Mediterranean Geology (ISEMG), Turkey, 2018
2016-2019Programme Director MSc. Environmental Archaeology, University of Reading, UK
2016Reviewer of DFG Collaborative Research Centres proposal “Scales of Transformation: Human-environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies”, University of Kiel, Germany
2015-2018Archaeology panel member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership
2015-2016co-coordinator of a highly successful Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) entitled “Our Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future” which attracted several thousand participants since 2015
2014Interim Director of Postgraduate Research Studies Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK
2014Panel Chair, Workshop on “Mediterranean Holocene Climate and Human Societies”, April 2014, Costa Navarino, Greece
2014-2017Committee member PAGES Euro_Med2k working group
2012-2015Steering Committee Member of the Centre for Past Climate Change (CPCC), University of Reading, UK
2013Organizer of PAGES Euro_Med2k workshop, University of Reading, Reading, UK
2015-2015Director of the Scientific Archaeology Research Group (SARG), University of Reading, Reading, UK
2012-2016Steering Committee Member of the Walker Institute, University of Reading, UK
2012Contributing author to Chapter 5 “Information from Paleoclimate Archives”. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)    
2011-presentEditor “Climate of the Past”    
2011Co-Editor PAGES Newsletter on “The Medieval Climate Anomaly”, PAGES Newsletter, 2011
2009Member of the scientific committee, 62nd Geological Congress of Turkey, 13.-17.04.2009, Ankara, Turkey
2008Editor PAGES Newsletter on “Advances in Speleothem Research”, PAGES Newsletter Vol. 16,No. 3, August 2008
2007-presentMember of the scientific advisory board, Climate Risk Analysis (a research company for analysing risks of extreme climate events, owned by Dr. Manfred Mudelsee). (www.manfredmudelsee.com)
2007-2011Member of the public relation group at the Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland
2006Contributing author to Chapter 5 “Palaeoclimate”. In Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)         

 

External Funding 

2024-2028SNSF Sinergia Grant 10000157: “Holocene hydroclimate, drought dynamics and environmental change recorded in multiple archives from SW Asia (MITRA)” D. Fleitmann, M. Djamali, C. Raible (2,615,045 CHF)
2019-2026Institute of Basic Science (IBS), South Korea: “Reconstruction of Past Hydroclimate”, approx.12,730,000 KRW (10,103,971 CHF); declined due to job opportunity at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland.    
2018-2021AHRC SWW Doctoral Training Partnership “A critical evaluation of the influence of environmental and geological factors on the Late Bronze Age collapse in the eastern Mediterranean”, D. Fleitmann and T. Hodos, £67,500. 
2017-2018NERC Facility Grant (IP-1753-1117) “Droughts and societal transformations in the Fertile Crescent during the Holocene Period”, £52,500. 
2017-2020AHRC SWW Doctoral Training Partnership, “The Neolithic transitions and climate” D. Fleitmann and A. Pike, £65,000.    
2017-2020AHRC SWW Doctoral Training Partnership, “Climate change and socio-economic transformations in the Late Antiquity of the Middle East” D. Fleitmann and A. Gascoigne, £65,000.    
2017-2020SCENARIO NERC Doctoral Training Partnership, “Evolution of monsoon rainfall in climate models and palaeoclimate observations over the last millennium”. A. Turner and Fleitmann, £65,000.    
2017-2020SCENARIO NERC Doctoral Training Partnership, “Trace-element incorporation into stalagmite calcite as a paleo-volcanic record: a chemical perspective”. R. Grau-Crespo, D. Fleitmann, S. Black, £65,000.    
2016-2017NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory (NIGL) proposal (IP-1646-0516) “Arabian speleothem records of environmental change and hominid dispersal – testing the veracity of U-Pb age data”. D. Fleitmann, S. Black and D. Condon, £53,798.    
2016-2019National Science Foundation (NSF) “CNH-L: Pastoral territoriality as a dynamic coupled system”. M. Moritz, J. McCorriston, K. E. Cole, C.S. Larsen, S. Ivory, D. Fleitmann, 1,597,788 USD.    
2015Diamond Light Source Experiment 11726, “Timing and nature of major volcanic eruptions in stalagmites II”. D. Fleitmann and S. Black, £57,564.    
2015Centre for Past Climate Change (CPCC), University of Reading, “Introducing molecular-level modelling in the CPCC activities: an investigation of trace-element incorporation in stalagmite (calcite) as a palaeovolcanic record”. R. Grau-Crespo, D. Fleitmann, S. Black, £2,000.    
2014-2017German Science Foundation (DFG), “Hydrology induced variations in the 14C reservoir in stalagmites and reconstruction of atmospheric 14C concentrations”. J. Fohlmeister, N. Frank, D. Fleitmann, 253.000 EUR.    
2014Diamond Light Source Experiment 9932, “Timing and nature of major volcanic eruptions in stalagmites”. D- Fleitmann and S. Black, £57,570.    
2013-2015Swiss National Science Foundation, “STALCLIM II – Multi-proxy climatic and environmental reconstructions from stalagmites from Switzerland, Turkey, Arabia and India”. R. Kipfer, D. Fleitmann and 4 CO-PIs, 382,200 CHF.    
2013-2015NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory (NIGL) proposal, “Pliocene and Pleistocene pluvial periods in Arabia – Implications for hominid dispersal and the Indian Monsoon: A U-Pb speleothem scoping study”. D. Fleitmann, S. Black and D. Condon, £29,800. 
2014University of Reading PhD Studentship. D. Fleitmann. Amount awarded: £48,000 (candidate declined fellowship due to another job offer). 
2013-2016University of Reading PhD Studentship. D. Fleitmann and S. Black, Amount awarded: £62,000.    
2012-2013German Science Foundation (DFG) Schwerpunktprogramm 1266 ”Integrierte Analyse zwischeneiszeitlicher Klimadynanik” (INTERDYNAMIK), “Dynamics of Mid-latitude/Mediterranean climate during the last 150 ka: Black Sea/Northern Anatolian Paleoenvironmental reconstructions (DynNAP)”. H. Behling; H. Arz and D. Fleitmann, 105,000 EUR.    
2011-2012Swiss National Science Foundation, “Determination of paleotemperatures using fluid inclusion liquid-vapour homogenization in speleothems: Correction of the measured temperature data”. M. Frenz and D. Fleitmann, 108,400 CHF.    
2011-2013Swiss National Science Foundation, “STALCLIM – Multi-proxy climatic and environmental reconstructions from stalagmites from Switzerland, Turkey, Arabia and India”. D. Fleitmann and 5 Co-PIs, 1,643,000 CHF.    
2010-2011Swiss National Science Foundation, “Climate and environmental changes recorded in Late Quaternary lake deposits in the Arabian Desert”. F. Preusser and D. Fleitmann, 69,700 CHF.
2010-2012Swiss National Science Foundation, “Holocene to Late-Pleistocene paleoclimatic changes in Turkey and the eastern Mediterranean recorded in speleothems – PART II”. D. Fleitmann, 527,765 CHF.
2009-2011German Science Foundation (DFG) Schwerpunktprogramm 1266 ”Integrierte Analyse zwischeneiszeitlicher Klimadynanik (INTERDYNAMIK)”, “Dynamics of Mid-latitude/Mediterranean climate during the last 150 ka: Black Sea/Northern Anatolian Paleoenvironmental reconstructions (DynNAP)”. H. Behling; H. Arz and D. Fleitmann, 208,500 EUR.
2008-2010Swiss National Science Foundation, “Determination of paleotemperatures using fluid inclusion liquid-vapour homogenization in speleothems”. M. Frenz and D. Fleitmann, 388,000 CHF.
2007-2011Swiss National Science Foundation, “Paleoclimate history of Saudi Arabia”. F. Preusser and D. Fleitmann, 287,000 CHF.
2006-2010Swiss National Science Foundation, “Holocene to Late-Pleistocene paleoclimatic changes in Turkey and the eastern Mediterranean recorded in speleothems”. D. Fleitmann, 1,446,000 CHF.
2003-2005Swiss National Science Foundation, “Annual to multi-decadal climate variability in the western Indian Ocean recorded in corals from East Africa”. D. Fleitmann, 130,000 CHF.
2001-2002Saudi Geological Society (SGS) proposal, "The speleothem record of climate change from Saudi Arabia". D. Fleitmann and A. Matter, Logistical support for fieldwork.

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