Research
Current Projects
- SEACHANGE - Quantifying the impact of major cultural transitions on marine ecosystem functioning and biodiversity (ERC Synergy; Co-PIs: James Scourse [U Exeter; cPI], Kristine Bohmann [U Copenhagen], Callum Roberts [U Exeter], 2020-2027)
- Chemical and mineralogical changes of calcareous shell material during fossilisation processes – an experimental approach (DFG-FOR 2685-A6. Co-PI: Thomas Tütken, 2022-2025)
- Freshwater pearl mussels as stream water stable isotope recorders – MUSES (DFG-FNR, 2021-2024)
- Developing and calibrating paleoweather proxies from Giant Clams (Chinesisch-Deutsches Zentrum für Wissenschaftsförderung, 2021-2023)
- Chemical and structural variations of bivalve shells at the micrometer scale – taking sclerochronology to the next level (DFG-JSPS, Co-PI: Kotaro Shirai [AORI U Tokyo], 2019-2023)
- Bivalve shell-based, high-resolution multi-proxy reconstruction of marine primary production – Pecten maximus, Bay of Brest (DFG-ANR, Co-PI: Julien Thébault [U Brest, France], 2019-2023)
- Tracking the history of Baltic Sea hypoxia with bivalve shells (DFG, 2019-2023)
- Bivalve shell microstructures – exploring a novel marine temperature proxy (DFG; 2018-2022)
- „Wir haben die Erde nur von unseren Kindern geliehen.“ Umweltveränderungen und Lebensweise im Zentraloman im 3. und 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Teilprojekt Malakologie (BMBF, 2020-2024)
- Evolution of herbivory in vertebrates: developing combined isotope (Ca, Sr) and dental surface texture analysis as deep time diet proxies (ERC Consolidator Grant Tütken, 2015-2022)