Professional Experience

2025 - Assistant Professor Tenure Track, Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern
2023 - 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern
2021 - 2023 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern
2020 - 2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern
2017 - 2019 Research Assistant in the framework of my PhD thesis, Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University
2016 - 2017 Student Research Assistant, Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University

Education

2017 - 2019 PhD in Earth Sciences (summa cum laude), Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University
2015 - 2016 M.Sc. in Physics, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University
2011 - 2015 B.Sc. in Physics, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University

Awards and Research Grants

  • Grant for contribution to the Warming-Induced Greenhouse Gas Emissions Model Intercomparison Project from Spark Climate Solutions
  • ERC Starting Grant 2025 - BGCTip
  • Swiss contribution to the Horizon Europe Research Grant - Past To Future
  • Swiss contribution to the Horizon Europe Research Grant - ClimTip
  • Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action fellowship (2021) of the EU Horizon 2020 framework program - CliMoTran
  • Ruprecht-Karls Prize (2020) of the Heidelberg University for excellent PhD Theses
  • DFG research grant (2020) together with Dr. Jörg Lippold (Heidelberg University) for the investigation of the Atlantic deep circulation during the past 100,000 years

Community Services

  • Lead-coordinator of the PAGES working group on Investigating Modes of Past Abrupt Climate change and Tipping points (IMPACT)
  • Reviewer for Nature, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, JGR: Oceans, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, G-cubed, Chemical Geology, Climate of the Past, Biogeosciences, Geophysical Research Letters, Communications Earth & Environment, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Marine Geology
  • Session convener at PAGES OSM, EGU, and Goldschmidt conferences

Sea-going Expeditions

  • 2022: Scientific participant: R.V. Polarstern cruise PS128 (Cape Town - Cape Town)
  • 2017: Scientific participant: R.V. Meteor cruise 144 (Heraklion - Catania)