Congratulations!Daniela Eichner successfully defended her doctoral thesis

19 September 2024

Photo: Mike Frenken

We are proud to announce the successful disputation of our SICSS member Daniela Eichner.

Her dissertation “Reconstruction of tectonically induced vertical motions and paleo-ecological evolution of the Island of Rhodes during the Plio-Pleistocene” was supervised by Dr. habil. Yvonne Milker and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmiedl (both Universität Hamburg).

During her PhD, Daniela investigated the paleo-ecological and neotectonic evolution of the Island of Rhodes during the Plio-Pleistocene. For this, the assemblages of single-celled fossil organisms (Foraminifera) were used to draw conclusion about the environmental conditions of the past. Further, a microfossil-based transfer function was applied to reconstruct the tectonically induced vertical motions during the Plio-Pleistocene. Due to the high resolution of this method, short-term motions with much higher rates than previously found were detected.

She was a member of the Institute for Geology at Universität Hamburg.

Daniela's future plans?
She will start a post-doc position at the University of Heidelberg and would like to continue her research on and with foraminifera.

More on Daniela's work:

• Eichner D., Schmiedl G., Titschack J., Triantaphyllou M., Andersen N., Forster N., Milker Y., 2024. Impact of hydrological changes and vertical motions on Pleistocene marine environments of the eastern coast of the island of Rhodes (Greece). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 636, 111980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.11198
• Eichner D., Schmiedl G., Titschack J., Ferreira, M., Triantaphyllou M., Andersen N., Milker Y., 2024. Humid climate phases on the Island of Rhodes (Greece) during the Late Pliocene at times of sapropel formation. Marine Micropaleontology 187, 102341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2024.102341