My research focuses on solving geological problems with biological information and proxies. My background is in terrestrial palynology, I use pollen and spore data to reconstruct past vegetation and as input for paleoclimatological estimates. I search for integration of techniques and concepts across different fields of application, in paleoclimate research, environmental ‘fingerprinting’, and geological model building.

NEWS:

Reconstruction of an Early Pleistocene giant beaver uncovered in botanical garden Jochumshof, Steyl (Limburg), read about it in an article in Trouw (dutch).

School tv clip on pollen, hay fever and climate (in dutch)

New publication in PNAS shows the history of forest diversity for the past 1.36 million years.

Podcast and newspaper article about our Lake Ohrid Work (NRC-Handelsblad)

Press release on our work on the Lake Ohrid, published in Nature

Code rood; a Dutch time series on climate change with our contribution on the realtion betyween climate and pollen allergy

See our El Nino video on the Ecuador fieldwork

Media coverage on PLOSone publication on pollen and climate (dutch)