Biografie

Jan 2012

Young Scientist's Travel Award (YSTA) for EGU 2012

May 2010

Starting PhD-Thesis at the University of Potsdam in organic geochemistry

February 2010

Degree "Diplom Geologe" at the University of Potsdam

May 2009

Starting Diploma-Thesis "Mid Holocene high-resolution reconstruction of climate and environmentally conditions based on warved sediments of Meerfelder Maar, Germany"

Feb, March, April 2008

Geological-mapping Rosguill Peninsula, Ireland: "Geological history of the Metasedimentary rocks and magmatites of the Dalradian-supergroup in north-west Ireland"

2006 - 2010

Student-assistant at German research Centre for Geosciences (Dt. GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam)

Forschung

In view of future development of the climate and the importance for human life, it is necessary to comprehend the climate forcing mechanisms. Especially changes in the hydrological part can be crucial for life-supporting or hostile conditions for regions all over the world.

The key for decryption of climate forcing mechanisms is the reconstruction of the climate of the past. In this context paleoclimate research with stable isotopes (Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon) plays a leading role.

In my current research I am doing a high-resolution analysis on stable Hydrogen isotopes ratios (H/D) of n-alkanes to reconstruct the paleoclimate conditions for certain periodes of the lateglacial and Holocene in Europe based on lake sediments.

Publikationen

Abstracts

Rach, O., Brauer, A., Wilkes, H., Sachse, D., 2011. A high-resolution paleohydrological record of the Younger Dryas episode from Western Europe – using lipid biomarker D/H ratios. Mineralogical Magazine, Volume 75, Number 3, 1685, Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2011. (Talk/Abstract)