CV
Academic experience
2020 Habilitation in Marine Geosciences at the Ibn Zohr University of Agadir, Morocco
2016-2019 Associate Research Scientist “eigene stelle” funded through IODP/DFG, MARUM-Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
2013-2016 Postdoctoral Researcher “Climate and environmental changes in low latitudes”, MARUM-Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
2010 Postdoctoral scholar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York. USA
2009-2013 Postdoctoral Researcher “Glacial to Holocene history of the tropical rainbelt”, MARUM-Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
Education
2006-2009 PhD in Marine Geosciences, Award date: 17.04.2009
Thesis: Oceanic and climatic variability in the eastern tropical North Atlantic and over western Sahel during the last deglaciation and the Holocene
MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
2004 Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures spécialisées (MSc), Award date: 27.02.2004
EU project COLASU: Sustainability of Mediterranean Coastal Lagoon Ecosystems Under Semi-Arid Climate
Thesis: Integrated Management of Littoral and Marine Environments through ecological and environmental studies of the Nador lagoon (NE Morocco). Faculté des sciences de Rabat, Morocco
2001 Licence és-sciences in Geology, Award date: 05.2001
Option: Palynology and Paleobotany
Faculté des sciences de Rabat, Morocco
Highlights
Recipient of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) priority program funding (2016-2019).
Recipient of the Moroccan-German cooperation program PMARS III grant (2016-2019).
Recipient of the Moroccan-German cooperation program PMARS II grant (2013-2016).
Student Scholarship Award from the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists (AASP) (2007)