Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Dr. Melanie Behrens

Education

2017                Dr. rer. nat., Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg.
Thesis: Controls on rare earth element and neodymium isotope distributions in the West Pacific: local imprint vs. lateral transport.
2011             Diploma in Mineralogy, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn. Diploma thesis: "Lu-Hf and Re-Os isotopic systematics in highly metasomatised mantle: a case study in Letlhakane peridotite xenoliths, Botswana".

2007

Pre-diploma in Geosciences, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen

Positions

since 2018 Principal investigator for DFG research project CASSIOPEE, Max Planck Research Group for Marine Isotope Geochemistry, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg.
 
since 2018 Associated Junior Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Delmenhorst
 
2012-2017  PhD student in the Max Planck Research Group for Marine Isotope Geochemistry, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg.

Awards and Grants

2018


 		 DFG Research Grant
Associated Junior Fellowship at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Delmenhorst, Germany
 

2016

 

Invitation to the Dissertation Symposium in Chemical Oceanography (DISCO XXV), Honolulu, USA
Oltech Travel Grant, Graduate School Science and Technology, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Wolfgang Schulenberg Travel Grant, University Society Oldenburg e.V. , Germany
2015            Outstanding Student Paper Award (OSPA), AGU Fall Meeting, December 14-18, San Francisco, USA     

Cruises

2015      CASSIOPEE Pacific cruise R/V L’Atalante), New Caledonia
2012 TransGeoBioOc Pacific cruise (R/V Sonne), South Korea-Fiji
(Changed: 20 Apr 2022)