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Education

2009	Graduation at Freiburg University: Dr rer. nat. (magna cum laude). Title of PhD thesis: "“Zeolites in fissures of crystalline basement rocks” (Adviser: Prof. Dr. Kurt Bucher and Prof. Dr. Reto Gieré)
2006 - 2009	PhD study  at the Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
2000 - 2005	Course of study “Geology” (Diploma) at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg. Title of diploma thesis: "Zeolite facies mineralisation in the Hvalfjördur area, Iceland" (Adviser: Dr. Rune S. Selbekk, Prof. Dr. Kurt Bucher and Prof. Dr. John C. Tipper)
1990 - 1999	Gymnasium Kenzingen (Abitur 1999)
1986 - 1990	primary school Endingen

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Teaching/Courses

Rocks and Minerals (1st semester)	WS 2008/2009, WS 2007/2008, WS 2006/2007, WS 2005/2006,WS 2004/2005, WS 2003/2004, WS 2002/2003
Mineralogy and Petrology (2nd semester)	SS 2007, SS 2006
Mineral Microscopy I (4th semester)	SS 2005, SS 2004, SS 2003
Mineral Microscopy II (5 th semester)	WS 2003/2004
Opitcal Microscopy  (4th semester)	SS 2008

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Guided Excursions and Field Camps

2009	Kaiserstuhl/excursion excursion (2x1 day, 05/2009)
2008	Ballachulish/Scotland mapping course (7 days, 08/2008) Kaiserstuhl/Germany excursion (1 day, 04 & 05/2008) Nördlinger Ries/Germany excursion (3 days, 04/2008)
2007	Greina/Switzerland mapping course (7 days, 08/2007) Nördlinger Ries/Germany excursion (3 days, 04/2007) Eifel/Germany excursion (3 days, 05/2007)
2006	Zermatt/Switzerland excursion (assistant 5 day, 09/2006) Southern Black Forest/Germany excursion (1 day, 05/2006) Nördlinger Ries/Gemany excursion,  organized for the Student Society Freiburg (3 days, 05/2006) Schönberg/Germany excursion (1 day, 10/2006)  Kaiserstuhl/Germany excursion (1 day, 10/2006) Lukmanier/Switzerland excursion (assistant 2 days, 06/2006) Finero/Italy excursion (assistant 2 days, 11/2006)
2005	Iceland excursion (15 days, 08/2005) Kinzigtal/Germany excursion (1 day, 11/2005) Eifel/Germany excursion, organized for the Student Society Freiburg (4 days, 05/2005) Kaiserstuhl/excurison excursion  (1 day, 10/2005) Kaiserstuhl/Germany excursion, Utrechtse Geologen Vereniging  Geological Students Society, University of Utrecht, Netherlands,  (1 day, 04/2005)
2004	Schönberg/Germany excursion with a school class from the Humboldt highschool Bad Homburg (2 days, 07/2004) Kaiserstuhl/Germany excursion (1 day, 10/2004) Bretagne/France excursion (assistant 7 day, 06/2004)
2003	Kaiserstuhl/Germany excursion, (1 day, 10/2003)

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Professional Affiliation

Geologische Vereinigung (GV)  Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft (DMG)  Geological Society of America (GSA)  Clay Minerals Society (CMS)  American Geophysical Union (AGU)  American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)  Deutsch-Isländische Gesellschaft (DIG)  Eugen e.V. (EUropean GEology students Network)

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Reviewer

AAPG Bulletin Clay Minerals Mineralogical Magazine Geologica Belgica

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International Workshops

22.05. – 24.05.2011	Basics of 3D Quantitative Analysis of Geological Materials Using CT (Richard Ketcham & Romy Hanna, Texas High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility , The University of Texas at Austin)
19.06. – 21.06.2009	Thermodynamics and kinetics of water-rock interaction (Eric Oelkers & Jacques Schott, MSA & GS pre-conference workshop Goldschmidt 2009, Davos)
08.10. – 12.10.2007	Diffusion in geological materials (Prof. Dr. Rainer Abart, Free University Berlin)
05.03. – 09.03.2007	Vibrational spectroscopy (Infrared Absorption and Raman): applications in geosciences  (Prof. Dr. Lutz Nasdala, University of Vienna)
02.10. – 06.10.2006	In situ isotope- and trace element analysis in geosciences using Laser Ablation Spectrometry (Prof. Dr. Stefan Weyer, University of Frankfurt)
06.06. – 09.06.2006	Application of solid state NMR Spectroscopy in geosciences (PD. Dr. Michael Fechtelkord, University of Bochum)
28.06. – 02.07.2004	Image analysis in earth scienes and optical orientation imaging (Prof. Dr. Renée Heilbronner, University of Basel)
23.02. – 27.02.2004	Pyroclastic Rocks (Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Schmincke, IFM-Geomar Kiel)

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Softskill Training

23.06. – 24.06.2009	Determination of job-related potential (Dr Peter Modler, management consultant, DrModler, Freiburg/Amoltern)
16.01. – 20.01.2009	Improving presentation skills by taking the lead in the interview (Jörg Blömeling, Trainer für Präsentation und Gesprächsführung, Neue Kommunikative, Freiburg)
14.12. – 15.12.2008	Introduction to team leadership experience (Dr. Harald Schützeichel, ductus. Gesellschaft für Management- und Führungskultur mbH, Freiburg)
03.04. – 04.04.2008	Reasonable and beneficial design of courses (Edith Kröber, Dr. Katrin Thumser-Dauth, Hochschuldidaktikzentrum Baden-Württemberg)
20.06.2008	Science management, a practical (Magnus M. Gees, University of Freiburg)

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Administrative Experience /Honorary Post and Organization Work

2001 – 2005	Active member of the student council geology/mineralogy
10/2002 – 09/2004	Elected student representative at the Faculty of chemistry, pharmacy and geosciences; University Freiburg
10/2002 – 09/200	Student representative at the study board for chemistry, pharmacy and geosciences
10/2003 – 09/2005	Student representative at the study board for geosciences
10/2002 – 09/2005	Student representative in the examination board for geology
11/2003	Managed and organized the 4 days “Annual German Student Council Meeting” for geology students (BuFaTa) including workshops, lectures, excursions and social events.
10/1999 - recent	Active member of the firefighters in Endingen, division Amoltern

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    Computers Skills

Applications	MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator), FileMakerPro, EndNote,
Operating systems	Mac OSX, Win95/98/ME, Win NT/2000, Windows/XP
Geoscience applications	Theriak/Domino, PTAX (TWQ), SUPCRT, PHREEQC (basics), GSAS (basics), SpheriStat, ImageJ, Surfer, GIS/GRASS (basics), CrystalMaker

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    Languages

German	native tongue
English	reading - excellent; speaking, writing - fluent
Latin	basic knowledge

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Publications