Research grants

Research grant of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF): Chronologie von marinen Extremereignissen im östlichen Mittelmeer. Subproject of the DAM Research mission "MULTI-MAREX: Ein Real-Labor für verbesserte Prognose- und Aktionsmöglichkeiten für multiple geomarine Extremereignisse", together with S. Binnie (Cologne) (Jan 2024 - Dez 2026)

Research grant of the German Research Council (DFG): Rising sea and sinking land: Determining spatially resolved subsidence rates for the Ayeyarwady Delta (Myanmar) and developing dynamic adaptation scenarios for the increased risk of flooding, together with H. Brückner (Cologne) and F. Kraas (Cologne) (Mar 2024 - Feb 2025; GZ: BR 5023/4-2)

Research grant of the German Research Council (DFG): Transport and deposition: Deciphering the late Neogene and Quaternary evolution of alluvial fans along the coastal ranges in the Atacama and Namib deserts. Subproject C02 of the CRC 1211 - Earth Evolution at the Dry Limit, Funding Period 2. Together with F. Lehmkuhl (Aachen) (Jul 2020 - Jun 2024; GZ: INST 216/866-2)

Research grant of the German Research Council (DFG): Driving factors for and societal effects of sea-level rise and delta flooding in the Ayeyarwady Delta (Myanmar) – Lessons from the past for disaster governance in the future, together with H. Brückner (Cologne) and F. Kraas (Cologne) (Jan 2020 - Dez 2022; GZ: BR 5023/4-1)

Research grant of the German Research Council (DFG): Application of Luminescence Dating Techniques in Geoarchaeological Studies. Subprojekt F2 integrated in the CRC 806 "Our Way to Europe", together with H. Brückner (Cologne) (Jul 2017 - Jun 2021

Research grant of the German Research Council (DFG): OSL surface exposure dating of wave-emplaced boulders - Improving the use of coarse-clast records for coastal hazard assessments (Jul 2016 - Jun 2019; GZ: BR 5023/3-1)

Research grant of the German Research Council (DFG): Myanmar's tsunami and cyclone record - Surveying coastal geoarchives for sedimentary evidence of extreme wave events (Dez 2016 - Dez 2018; GZ: BR 5023/2-1)

 

Awards & travel grants

Post-doc mobility grants of the University of Cologne for a 4-week research stay in Wageningen, Netherlands (May 2016) & fieldwork and initiation of a research collaboration in Niteroi, Brazil (March 2018)

DAAD Travel Grants for IAG 2013, ITFS 2015, EGU 2016 & 2017 and INQUA 2019

Research Award for young scientists of the Geoverbund ABC/J (Universities of Aachen, Bonn and Cologne; Research Centre Jülich) 2013

Best PhD Dissertation Award 2013 of the German Society of Geography (DGFG) - Geomorphology section

Vagn Mejdahl Price for the best poster presentation at the International Conference on Luminescence and ESR Dating (Torun, Polen) 2011

PhD scholarship of the University of Marburg (January 2010 to April 2011)

Award of collegiate final exams by the Marburger Geographische Gesellschaft 2008