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Contact
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
e-mail: streiber@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Tobias Lauer
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Evolution
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Germany
phone: 0049 (0) 341 3550 344
fax: 0049 (0) 341 3550 399
e-mail: tobias_lauer@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
Tobias Lauer is the head of the luminescence- and infrared-radiofluorescence laboratory within the Department of Human Evolution and focuses on quaternary and palaeoenvironmental research.
Tobias has a strong background in field work and already worked in various sedimentary environments (e.g. loess, fluvial regimes, coastal dunes, periglacial slope deposits)
During his PhD-thesis at the Leibniz-Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG) in Hannover he specialized in luminescence dating, doing both, applied studies in quaternary research and geomorphology and also methodological work in optical dating. During a postdoctoral position at the Geographical Institute in Leipzig Tobias cooperated with dating laboratories in Freiberg and Hannover and used the luminescence dating technique for palaeoenvironmental investigations in Central Germany. After his stay at Leipzig University, Tobias went back to LIAG and worked on loess-palaeosol sequences in Northern Iran focusing on litho- and chronostratigraphical investigations of these sediment archives in Northern Iran.
In November 2015 Tobias started his position at the Department of Human Evolution where he focuses on optical dating of Paleolithic sites in Europe and Africa. Furthermore, Tobias investigates Middle Pleistocene fluvial archives in Germany and intends to better unravel the timing of the Saalian- and Elsterian glacial cycles in Europe.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 10/2001-04/2007 | Studies of Geography (main subject), Geology and Political Sciences at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen (Germany); Title of Diploma-thesis: “Reliefgenese, Böden und periglaziale Deckschichten an der Bauland-Odenwald Grenze” (engl. Morphogeneses, soils and periglacial slope deposits at the Bauland-Odenwald boundary); Diploma with distinction |
| 09/2003-06/2004 | Erasmus at the Université Aix-Marseille I, Aix-en-Provence, France |
| 01/2008-12/2010 | PhD thesis at the Leibniz-Institute of Applied Geophysics (LIAG) in Hannover in the working group of Prof. Manfred Frechen Title of the thesis: Luminescence and infrared-radiofluorescence dating of fluvialdeposits from the Rhine system – methodological aspects and new insights into quaternary geochronology |
| May 2011 | PhD thesis defense at the Geographical Institute (FU) Berlin; „magna cum laude“ |
| 10/2010-02/2013 | Researcher (and Postdoctoral Researcher after finishing the PhD) at the Geographical Institute Leipzig, member of the working group of Prof. Christoph Zielhofer:
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| 03/2013-10/2015 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz-Institute of Applied Geophysics (working group of Prof. Manfred Frechen); Involved in the research project “Northern Iranian loess and its palaeoclimatic implication”;
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| Since 11/2015 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution; Chronological and palaeoenvironmental studies on archaeological sites with focus on central- and eastern Europe; Research on the timing of Middle-Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles; chronology and stratigraphy of sediment archives within the typo region for the Elsterian-and Saalian glacial cycles. |
Practical Experience & Lectureships at Universities
| 03/2007-05/2007 | Participation in the DFG-founded project „Exploratories for large scale and long term functional biodiversity research“, Soil mapping and soil sampling (Swabian Alb, south-west Germany) |
| 10/2005-07/2007 | Research assistant at the professorship for Geoecology and Quaternary Sciences of Prof. Dr. E. Bibus (Geographical Institute Tübingen) |
| March 2009 | Lectureship at the Geographical Institute of the FU Berlin; Course on laboratory methods in Physical Geography |
| May 2010 | Lectureship at the Geographical Institute Leipzig; Organization and guidance of a 5-days field trip focusing on landscape evolution, periglacial processes, soil development and geoecology in south-west Germany |
| July 2010 | Lectureship at the Geographical Institute Würzburg: Organisation and guidance of a 4-days field trip focusing on periglacial slope deposits and soil development in south-west Germany |
| October 2010 | Assistance in the organization of the conference „Arbeitskreis Geomorphologie“, guidance of an excursion focusing on surface- near quaternary deposits (e.g. glacio-fluvial and moraine deposits of the Saalian glacial cycle) in the Leipzig lowlands and in the Saxony-Anhalt loess region |
| May 2012 | Assistance in the organization of the conference „Arbeitskreises Geoarchäologie und der AG Paläopedologie“, guidance of an excursion focusing on sediment archives in NW-Saxony (Germany) |
| October 2014 | Member of the Scientific Committee of the international symposium on “Loss, Soils & Climate Change in Southern Eurasia”; Presentation of sediment archives during the conference-excursion |
| Sommersemester 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 | Lectureship at the Geographical Institute Giessen: Organisation and guidance of a 4-days field trip focusing on soils, periglacial slope deposits and Quaternary and Tertiary landscape development in southwest Germany |
| Wintersemester 2017/2018, 2018/2019 | Lectureship at the Geographical Institute Leipzig Seminar including excursion on Pleistocene sediment archives |
Affilations, Reviews & Grants
Affiliations
- German Quaternary Association
- Quaternary Subcommission of the German Stratigraphic Commission
- German Society of Geosciences
- Deutscher Arbeitskreis für Geomorphologie
- Secretary: Fluvial Archives Group (FLAG)
Reviews
Reviewer for the following journals:
- Quaternary Science Reviews
- Quaternary Geochronology
- Catena
- Geomorphology
- Geochronometria
- Quaternary Science Journal
- Austrian Journal of Earthsciences
- Radiation Measurements
- Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie
- Journal of Human Evolution
- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
- Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
- Journal of Mountain Science
- Reviewer for the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH)
Grants
| 2019 | DFG reserach fellowship (about 14.000 EUR; 1.5.2019 – 31.07.2019) in cooperation with Michel Lamothe (Université du Québec, Montreal). Topic: Infrared-radiofluorescence dating of loess sediments from Alaska with independent age control. |
| 2014 | DAAD grant (about 2.400 Euro) to join the „14th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating“ in Montreal, Canada |
Sessions on Conferences
| 2019 | International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) |
| 2016, 2017, 2018 | European Geoscience Union (EGU) Aeolian dust: Initiator, Player, and Recorder of Environmental Change (co-organized) Convener: Peter Knippertz Co-Conveners: Jan-Berend Stuut, Joanna Nield, Tobias Lauer |
Publications
2021
| Cordier, S., Kalicki, T., Lauer, T., Rixhon, G., & van Balen, R. (2021). Twenty-five years of FLAG activity: Concepts, foci, trends in research. Geomorphology,373: 107443. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2020
Faust, D., Kreutzer, S., Trigui, Y., Pachtmann, M., Mettig, G., Bouaziz, M., Recio Espejo, J. M., Diaz del Olmo, F., Schmidt, C., Lauer, T., Rezek, Z., Fülling, A., & Meszner, S. (2020). New findings of Middle Stone Age lithic artifacts from the Matmata loess region in southern Tunisia. E&G Quaternary Science Journal,69(1), 55-58.  Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Flašarová, K., Strouhalová, B., Šefrna, L., Verrecchia, E., Lauer, T., Juřičková, L., Kolařík, P., & Ložek, V. (2020). Multiproxy evidence of middle and Late Pleistocene environmental changes in the loess-paleosol sequence of Bůhzdař (Czech Republic). Quaternary International,552, 4-14. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Hein, M., Weiss, M., Otcherednoy, A., & Lauer, T. (2020). Luminescence chronology of the key-Middle Paleolithic site Khotylevo I (Western Russia) - Implications for the timing of occupation, site formation and landscape evolution. Quaternary Science Advances,2: 100008. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Lauer, T., Weiss, M., Bernhardt, W., Heinrich, S., Rappsilber, I., Stahlschmidt, M. C., von Suchodoletz, H., & Wansa, S. (2020). The Middle Pleistocene fluvial sequence at Uichteritz, central Germany: Chronological framework, paleoenvironmental history and early human presence during MIS 11. Geomorphology,354: 107016. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2019
| Moroni, A., Boschian, G., Crezzini, J., Montanari-Canini, G., Marciani, G., Capecchi, G., Arrighi, S., Aureli, D., Berto, C., Freguglia, M., Araujo, A., Scaramucci, S., Hublin, J.-J., Lauer, T., Benazzi, S., Parenti, F., Bonato, M., Ricci, S., Talamo, S., Segre, A. G., Boschin, F., & Spagnolo, V. (2019). Late Neandertals in central Italy. High-resolution chronicles from Grotta dei Santi (Monte Argentario - Tuscany). Quaternary Science Reviews,217, 130-151. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| von Suchodoletz, H., Tinapp, C., Lauer, T., Glaser, B., Stäuble, H., Kühn, P., & Zielhofer, C. (2019). Distribution of Chernozems and Phaeozems in Central Germany during the Neolithic period. Quaternary International,511, 166-184. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Wiśniewski, A., Lauer, T., Chłoń, M., Pyżewicz, K., Weiss, M., Badura, J., Kalicki, T., & Zarzecka-Szubińska, K. (2019). Looking for provisioning places of shaped tools of the late Neanderthals: Astudy of a Micoquian open-air site, Pietraszyn 49a (southwestern Poland) = À la recherche des lieux d’approvisionnement en outils des derniers néandertaliens: étude d’un site micoquien de plein air, Pietraszyn 49a (Sud-Ouest de la Pologne). Comptes Rendus Palevol,18(3), 367-389. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2018
| Lang, J., Lauer, T., & Winsemann, J. (2018). New age constraints for the Saalian glaciation in northern central Europe: Implications for the extent of ice sheets and related proglacial lake systems. Quaternary Science Reviews,180, 240-259. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Lauer, T., & Weiss, M. (2018). Timing of the Saalian- and Elsterian glacial cycles and the implications for Middle – Pleistocene hominin presence in central Europe. Scientific Reports,8: 5111. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Vlaminck, S., Kehl, M., Rolf, C., Franz, S. O., Lauer, T., Lehndorff, E., Frechen, M., & Khormali, F. (2018). Late Pleistocene dust dynamics and pedogenesis in Southern Eurasia – Detailed insights from the loess profile Toshan (NE Iran). Quaternary Science Reviews,180, 75-95. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Weiss, M., Lauer, T., Wimmer, R., & Pop, C. (2018). The variability of the Keilmesser-Concept: A case study from central Germany. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology,1(3), 202-246. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Zielhofer, C., Wellbrock, K., al-Souliman, A. S., von Grafenstein, M., Schneider, B., Fitzsimmons, K., Stele, A., Lauer, T., von Suchodoletz, H., Grottker, M., & Gebel, H. G. K. (2018). Climate forcing and shifts in water management on the Northwest Arabian Peninsula (mid-Holocene Rasif wetlands, Saudi Arabia). Quaternary International,473, Part A, 120-140. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2017
| Dogandzic, T., Talamo, S., Dimitrijević, V., Lauer, T., Aldeias, V., Ruebens, K., Latas, A., Daković, G., Flas, D., Dragosavac, S., Plavšić, S., McPherron, S. P., & Mihailović, D. (2017). Middle and Upper Paleolithic in the Balkans: New data from two recently discovered sites in Serbia. In Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE) (6, pp. 54). BibTeX Endnote | |
| Lauer, T., Frechen, M., & Fischer, P. (2017). Luminescence dating of the Lower Middle Terrace site at Brühl, southern Lower Rhine Embayment – a first dating approach. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften,168(1), 105-114. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Lauer, T., Frechen, M., Vlaminck, S., Kehl, M., Lehndorff, E., Shahriari, A., & Khormali, F. (2017). Luminescence-chronology of the loess palaeosol sequence Toshan, Northern Iran: A highly resolved climate archive for the last glacial-interglacial cycle. Quaternary International,429(Part B), 3-12. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Lauer, T., Vlaminck, S., Frechen, M., Rolf, C., Kehl, M., Sharifi, J., Lehndorff, E., & Khormali, F. (2017). The Agh Band loess-palaeosol sequence – A terrestrial archive for climatic shifts during the last and penultimate glacial–interglacial cycles in a semiarid region in northern Iran. Quaternary International,429(Part B), 13-30. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Lauer, T., Weiss, M., Degering, D., Krbetschek, M., Tinapp, C., & Wansa, S. (2017). Optical dating of the Saalian glacial cycle and the onset of the Middle Paleolithic in central Germany. In Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE) (6, pp. 111). Open Access BibTeX Endnote | |
| Tsukamoto, S., Kondo, R., Lauer, T., & Jain, M. (2017). Pulsed IRSL: A stable and fast bleaching luminescence signal from feldspar for dating Quaternary sediments. Quaternary Geochronology,41, 26-36. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Vliet-Lanoë, B. V., Lauer, T., Meurisse-Fort, M., Gosselin, G., & Frechen, M. (2017). Late Holocene coastal dune activity along the Dover Strait, Northern France: Insights into Middle Ages and Little Ice Age coastal dynamics constrained by optically stimulated luminescence dating. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften = German Journal of Geology,168(1), 53-66. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Wang, X., Wei, H., Khormali, F., Taheri, M., Kehl, M., Frechen, M., Lauer, T., & Chen, F. (2017). Grain-size distribution of Pleistocene loess deposits in northern Iran and its palaeoclimatic implications. Quaternary International,429(Part B), 41-51. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Wiśniewski, A., Lauer, T., Kalicki, T., & Chłoń, M. (2017). New radiometric dating of Micoquian site Pietraszyn 49a (SW Poland) and its consequences. In Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE) (6, pp. 216). Open Access BibTeX Endnote | |
| Zielhofer, C., Fletcher, W. J., Mischke, S., De Batist, M., Campbell, J. F. E., Joannin, S., Tjallingii, R., El Hamouti, N., Junginger, A., Stele, A., Bussmann, J., Schneider, B., Lauer, T., Spitzer, K., Strupler, M., Brachert, T., & Mikdad, A. (2017). Atlantic forcing of Western Mediterranean winter rain minima during the last 12,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews,157, 29-51. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2016
| Vlaminck, S., Kehl, M., Lauer, T., Shahriari, A., Sharifi, J., Eckmeier, E., Lehndorff, E., Khormali, F., & Frechen, M. (2016). Loess-soil sequence at Toshan (Northern Iran): Insights into late Pleistocene climate change. Quaternary International,399, 122-135. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2015
| Lauer, T. (2015). Radioluminescence (RL). In W. J. Rink, & J. W. Thompson ( DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2014
| Kreutzer, S., Lauer, T., Meszner, S., Krbetschek, M., Faust, D., & Fuchs, M. (2014). Chronology of the Quaternary profile Zeuchfeld in Saxony-Anhalt / Germany: A preliminary luminescence dating study. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplementary Issues,58(1), 5-26. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Lauer, T., Von Suchodoletz, H., Vollmann, H., Meszner, S., Frechen, M., Tinapp, C., Goldmann, L., Müller, S., & Zielhofer, C. (2014). Landscape aridification in Central Germany during the late Weichselian Pleniglacial – results from the Zauschwitz loess site in western Saxony. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplementary Issues,58(1), 27-50. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2012
| Cordier, S., Harmand, D., Lauer, T., Voinchet, P., Bahain, J.-J., & Frechen, M. (2012). Geochronological reconstruction of the Pleistocene evolution of the Sarre valley (France and Germany) using OSL and ESR dating techniques. Geomorphology,165–166, 91-106. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Cordier, S., Lauer, T., Harmand, D., Frechen, M., & Brkojewitch, G. (2012). Fluvial response to climatic and anthropogenic forcing in the Moselle drainage basin (NE France) during historical periods: evidence from OSL dating. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms,37(11), 1167-1175. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Lauer, T., Krbetschek, M., Mauz, B., & Frechen, M. (2012). Yellow stimulated luminescence from potassium feldspar: Observations on its suitability for dating. Radiation Measurements,47(10), 974-980. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2011
| Lauer, T., Frechen, M., Klostermann, J., Krbetschek, M., Schollmayer, G., & Tsukamoto, S. (2011). Luminescence dating of Last Glacial and Early Holocene fluvial deposits from the Lower Rhine: Methodological aspects and chronological framework. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften,162(1), 47-61. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Lauer, T., Krbetschek, M., Frechen, M., Tsukamoto, S., Hoselmann, C., & Weidenfeller, M. (2011). Geoarchaeological studies on Roman time harbour sediments in Cologne: comparison of different OSL dating techniques. Geochronometria,38(4), 341-349. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Lauer, T., Krbetschek, M., Frechen, M., Tsukamoto, S., Hoselmann, C., & Weidenfeller, M. (2011). Infrared radiofluorescence (IR-RF) dating of middle pleistocene fluvial archives of the Heidelberg Basin (Southwest Germany). Geochronometria,38(1), 23-33. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Lüthgens, C., Böse, M., Lauer, T., Krbetschek, M., Strahl, J., & Wenske, D. (2011). Timing of the last interglacial in Northern Europe derived from Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating of a terrestrial Saalian–Eemian–Weichselian sedimentary sequence in NE-Germany. Quaternary International,241(1–2), 79-96. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2010
| Lauer, T., Frechen, M., Hoselmann, C., & Tsukamoto, S. (2010). Fluvial aggradation phases in the Upper Rhine Graben: New insights by quartz OSL dating. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association,121(2), 154-161. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2007
| Schmidt, E. D., Lauer, T., & Bibus, E. (2007). Die Bedeutung des oberflächennahen Untergrundes für Boden und Relief an der Bauland-Odenwald-Grenze. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft,110, 535-536. BibTeX Endnote |
Editorials
2014
| Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplementary Issue: “Climatic signals in geomorphological systems. Approaches from aeolian, fluvial, colluvial, periglacial, coastal, and man-made geomorphological systems” Editorial.: Zielhofer, C., Suchodoletz, H. v., Lauer, T., Heinrich, J. |
