Cecile Hilgen

Vening Meineszgebouw A
Princetonlaan 8a
Kamer 3.44
3584 CB Utrecht

2020 – 2023: Master Earth, life and Climate, Utrecht University

  • Master's thesis Utrecht University: 'Reconstructing Decadal-Scale Climate Variability in High-Arctic Lake Sediments using two different X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) scanners'. (Supervisor: Wim Hoek)
  • Arctic Circle Assembly October 2022 in Reykjavik.
    • Oral presentation: 'Dramatic climate and environmental change in the Arctic: what can we learn from lake deposits?'
  • Participant in the multidisciplinary Science Expedition Edgeøya Svalbard (SEES) 2022.
  • Dutch Earth Sciences Congress (NAC) September 2022 in Utrecht. 
    • Poster presentation: 'Decadal climate variability in high Arctic Lake sediment records in East-Svalbard obtained by X-ray fluorescence core scanning method'. (second prize)
    • Oral presentation: 'Decadal variability southern North Sea pH: ocean acidification in reverse?'
  • Research at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) on Texel: 'The influence of biogeochemical processes on the long-term trend of pH along the Dutch coastal zone'. (Supervisor: Matthew Humphreys)
  • Fieldwork Geochemistry. The objective was to develop a restoration strategy for a Dutch lake to achieve good water quality status by reducing nutrient loading (project: https://h2020-p-trap.eu/).
  • Master education committee of the Graduate school of geoscience.

2019 – 2020: Second grade geography teacher, Utrecht University.

  • Educational minor with subjects pedagogy, didactics and social geography and planning on (world) cities and environment.
  • Internship at Christelijk Lyceum Veenendaal.
  • Education committee of the Graduate school of teaching.

2016 – 2020: Bachelor's degree in Earth Sciences, Utrecht University

  • Bachelor thesis University of Utrecht: 'Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages at site 274, offshore Antarctica, during the Oligocene'. (Supervisor: Peter Bijl)
  • Geological fieldwork in Spain: Aliaga in 2017 and Pyrenees (Camarassa, Tremp and Zumaia) in 2018.

2015 – 2016: TEFL certificate (teaching English as a foreign language), online course

2009 –2015: VWO diploma R.S.G. Pantarijn, Wageningen.

  • Profiles: nature, health and technology.