Dr. Sebastian Viehmann

2022-today: Associate researcher (senior postdoc), Institute of Mineralogy, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

2017-2022: Postdoc, Department of Geology (EU Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship) and Department of Lithospheric Research (FWF stand-alone projekt), University of Vienna, Austria

2011-2016: PhD student, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

2011: Student apprentice, Natural History Museum London, UK

2007-2010: Student research assistant, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany

2016

Ph.D. in Geosciences (summa cum laude), Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

Topic: The evolution of Precambrian environments and their impact on the trace element and Hf-Nd isotopic compositions of ancient seawater

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Bau

2011

Diploma (German MSc. Equivalent) in Geology/ Palaeontology (A-level), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, Germany

Topic: Seawater-derived REY, trace element and HFSE systematics of Archean Banded Iron Formations (BIFs).

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Carsten Münker and Dr. J. Elis Hoffmann

2004-2011

Diploma study in Geology/ Palaeontology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, Germany

• FWF stand-alone project ”The evolution of the earliest marine habitats” (grant no. P-34238)
• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (EU Horizon 2020 Programme) for project ELEMIN (grant no. 746033)
• PhD fellowship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) for scientific research at the Institute of Geochronology, University of Brasília, Brazil (D/11/44150)
• PhD scholarship of the Jacobs University for the duration of the PhD program

Since 2011:

Member of the scientific societies: European Association of Geochemistry (EAG), Austrian Geological Society (ÖGG), German Geological Society (GV), and German Mineralogical Society (DMG)