Deutsch Intern
Junior professorship of Geoarchaeology and Quaternary Research

Current research projects

MainPro - Das Maintalprojekt: Ökosystembasierte Lösungen für Gefährdungs-Szenarios im fränkischen Maintal

Joint project: Regional paths to climate-neutral universities

  • governance of programme
    Prof. Dr. Anja Schlömerkemper (JMU)
    Vice President on issues of equal opportunities, career planning and sustainability
  • subproject
    AP 5: Sink potential forest
  • funding
    BMBF
    funding for projects on the topic: Transformation paths for sustainable universities
  • duration
    10/2022 - 09/2025
  • project leaders
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Terhorst (Geography, JMU)
    Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Meister (Geography, JMU) 
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jörg Müller (Biocenter, JMU)
    Prof. Dr. Christian Zang (Forests and Climate Change, University of Applied Science Weihenstephan-Triesdorf)
  • further information
    project description (PDF)
  • project staff
    Julian Krause, M.Sc. (as of 2023)

Holocene landscape evolution in the environs of the ancient Egyptian city of Bubastis (’Tell Basta’), southeastern Nile Delta

  • funding
    German Research Society (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG; ME 5450/2-1)
  • duration
    08/2022 - 07/2025
  • project leader
    Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Meister
  • project staff
    Philipp Garbe, M.Sc.
  • project partner
    PD Dr. Eva Lange-Athinodorou (Ägyptologie, JMU Würzburg)
    Prof. Dr. Amr Abd El-Raouf (Geophysik, Zagazig University)
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Ullmann (Lehrstuhl für Fernerkundung, JMU Würzburg)
    Dr. Ashraf Es-Senussi (Ägyptologie, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt)

Studying Uplift driven Diversification of the Himalayas during the Late Quaternary using Multi-proxy Data (SUD-HUMD)

  • funding
    Humboldt Foundation; Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers
  • duration
    08/2022 - 07/2024
  • project leader
    Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Meister
  • project staff
    Dr. Showkat Mir
  • project partner
    Prof. Dr. Reyaz Ahmad Dar (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Kashmir)
    Prof. Dr. Irfan Rashid (Department of Botany, University of Kashmir)

Groundcheck Peru: Paleoecological and Archaeological Investigations for the analysis of Socio-Cultural Strategies in the Andean Highlands

  • funding
    Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; Groundcheck Kulturerbe und Klimawandel
  • duration
    01/2021 - 12/2023
  • project leaders
    Prof. Dr. Markus Reindel (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Kommission für Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen, Bonn)
    Dr. Karsten Schittek (Institut für Geographiedidaktik, Universität Köln)
    Dr. Christian Mader (Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Universität Bonn)
    Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Meister
  • project partner
    Dr. Bertil Mächtle (Geographisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg)
  • project description
    https://www.dainst.blog/groundcheck/dai-kaak-groundcheck-peru/