KOBE Franziska

Franziska Kobe (Paleontology Section, Institute of Geological Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin) got her master’s degree from the Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB). She was a Ph.D. student with the Baikal Archaeology Project under the supervision of Professor Pavel Tarasov at FUB specializing in pollen analysis. Her Bachelor Thesis accomplished in 2016 contributes to the testing of a more efficient, less time-consuming and health- and environmentally-friendly standard method for pollen extraction from various soft sediments. The key results of this study have been published in the peer-reviewed journal Quaternary International (Leipe et al., 2019). As a student assistant, she took part in the multidisciplinary Baikal-Hokkaido Archaeology Project supervised by Dr. Christian Leipe and Prof. Pavel Tarasov. For her Master Thesis she studied a sediment section from eastern Germany in order to reconstruct Lateglacial and early Holocene environments and human occupation in Brandenburg (Kobe et al., 2019. Geography, Environment, Sustainability 12(2), 132-147). In her PhD project, she analysed pollen samples from Lateglacial and Holocene sediments of Lake Ochaul from the Cis-Baikal region, aiming to provide high-resolution vegetation and climate record for this region in combination with other environmental proxies. She successfully finished her Ph.D. in 2022 with her thesis titled “A 32,000-year pollen record of vegetation, climate dynamics and glacial-interglacial environments of hunter-gatherer populations from Lake Ochaul, Cis-Baikal region of Siberia”.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Pollen analysis, Climate reconstruction, Biome reconstruction, Human-environment interactions

Photo by Jan Kersten.