Department of Human Evolution

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 350
fax: +49 (0341) 3550 - 399

Curriculum Vitae

2004	Scientist Luminescence Dating Laboratory Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
2003-2000	Scientist responsible for setting up and running a new Luminescence Dating Laboratory. Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear, Sacavèm, Portugal
1999-1997	Postdoctoral Fellow at the luminescence laboratory School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1994-1993	Guest Scientist for a total of 7 months at the Thermoluminescence Dating Laboratory Centre de Faibles Radioactivité (C.E.A.), C.N.R.S. in Gif-sur-Yvette, Paris, France
1996-1993	Scientist ForschungsstelleArchäometrie der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften am Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany

07/2009	Privatdozent in Prehistory of the University of Leipzig
07/2009	Dr. phil. habil. of the University of Leipzig venia legendi for Prehistory Title of habilitation: "Fire, light and minerals: Application and development of dosimetric dating methods at the transition of Middle to Upper Palaeolithic
1998	Dr. rer nat University of Tübingen, Germany “Thermolumineszenzdatierungen erhitzter Silices aus mittel und jungpaläolithischen Fundstellen. Anwendung und methodische Untersuchungen”.
1990-1989	Archaeology University College London, Great Britain
1997-1985	Geology major subject: Prehistory of Hunter-Gatherers and Quaternary Ecology minor subjects: European Pre- and Protohistory; University of Tübingen, Germany

Multi-chronometric dating of archaeological sites (TL, OSL, ESR), with an emphasis on luminescence methods in the palaeolithic period, while incorporating palaeoclimate data.
Development of dating methods and fundamental research in the luminescence of flint.
Chronometric dating of archaeological transitions, especially from the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic.
Palaeoclimatology and human evolution.
Calibration of glacial 14C data.
Additional archaeometric interests in the sourcing of raw material