Dr. rer. nat. Katja Kothieringer
Digital Geoarchaeology
Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg
Institute for Archaeology, Heritage Conservation Studies and Art History (IADK)
96045 Bamberg
Phone: +49 951 863-3932
E-Mail: katja.kothieringer(at)uni-bamberg.de
Office: Am Kranen 14, Room 01.20
Curriculum vitae
Since 11/2020
Research associate in the project "Settlement and Landscape History of the Northern Franconian Jura during the Bronze and Iron Ages", University of Bamberg
11/2018 – 10/2020
Project manager, Bavarian Virtual University (vhb)
12/2015 – 10/2018
Research associate in the project "Settlement and Landscape History of the Northern Franconian Jura during the Metal Ages", University of Bamberg
12/2010 – 03/2018
Research and teaching associate at the professorship "Digital Geoarchaeology", University of Bamberg
2010
Employee at the company "Remote sensing solutions (RSS)", Baierbrunn; tasks: thematic mapping, 3D-Visualisation and GIS
2006 – 2009
Ph.D. candidate at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Campus Alpin, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Ph.D. Thesis: "Soil-borne gaseous C- and N-isotopic fluxes in a Bavarian spruce forest ecosystem"
01/2003 - 06/2003
Studies of environmental sciences at the University of Karlstad, Sweden
Thesis: "Realising the Kyoto Protocol - An assessment of Germany's climate policy"
1999 - 2005
Studies of physical geography, meteorology and physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich
Diploma thesis: "Fog precipitation in a mountainous tropical rain forest in Southern Ecuador - A quantification of its spatio-temporal variability"
Research interests
- Geoarchaeology
- Environmental archives (soils and sediments)
- Human-environment interaction in the Holocene
- Alpine geoarchaeology
- GIS applications in geoarchaeology
Research projects
- Climate Change in the Alps
- Settlement and Landscape History of the Northern Franconian Jura during the Bronze and Iron Ages
- Geoarchives as sources for reconstructing landscape changes in the hinterland of the Roman metropolis Pompeiopolis in northern Anatolia (Turkey)
- Maya garden cities: settlement development and soils in Dzhekabtún, Campeche (Mexico)