• geomagnetic secular variations
• reduction diagenesis of magnetic minerals
• rock magnetic characterization of magnetic minerals
• rock magnetism and climate

• Characterization of magnetic minerals by rock magnetic methods
• Erlongwan maar lake, NE China
• Dead Sea sediments
• Birkat Ram
• Kinneret, Magnetostratigraphie spätglazialer Sedimente
• The last interglacial in Monticchio
• Magnetostratigraphy of Quaternary marine Sediments

• 1999 Dr. rer. nat, Universität Potsdam, “Reconstruction of the secular variations of the earth magnetic field during the last 100,000 years - Investigations of sediments from Lago di Mezzano and Lago Grande di Monticchio, Italy”
• 1996 Diplom in Geology, Freie Universität Berlin : “Structural geology studies in order to determine the relative deformation age of the triassic-jurassic sediments at Posada de los Hidalgos, 25°48 S, coastal cordillera of northern Chile”.

• 2003 – 2008 Research Associate, GFZ Potsdam, Project “Magnetic remanence of laminated sediments” (funded by the German Research Foundation DFG)
• 2000 - 2002 Post-doctoral Research Associate, GFZ Potsdam, Project “Geomagnetic secular variations, 0 - 100 ka” (funded by the German Research Foundation DFG)
• 1996 – 1999 Ph.D. Student, GFZ Potsdam

Publications U. Brandt

• Allen, J.R.M., Brandt , U., Brauer, A., Hubberten, H-W., Huntley, B., Keller, J., Kraml, M., Mackensen, A., Mingram, J., Negendank, J.F.W., Nowaczyk, N.R., Oberhänsli, H., Watts, W.A., Wulf, S. & Zolitschka, B. (1999): Rapid environmental changes in southern Europe during the last glacial period. Nature, 400, 740-743, 1999.
• Brandt, U ., Nowaczyk, N.R., Ramrath, A., Brauer, A., Mingram, J., Wulf, S. & Negendank, J.F.W. (1999): Palaeomagnetism of Holocene and Late Pleistocene sediments from Lago di Mezzano and Lago Grande di Monticchio (Italy) - Initial results. Quat. Sci. Rev., 18, 961-976.
• Frank, U., Nowaczyk, N.R., Negendank, J.F.W. & Melles, M. (2002): A paleomagnetic record from Lama Lake, northern Central Siberia, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 133, 3-20.
• Frank, U., Schwab, M.J. & Negendank, J.F.W. (2002): A lacustrine record of paleomagnetic secularvariation from Birkat Ram, Golan Heigths (Near East) for the last 4400 years. Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 133, 21-34.
• Frank, U., Schwab, M.J.& Negendank, J.F.W. (2003): Results of rock magnetic investigations and relative paleointensity determinations on lacustrine sediments from Birkat Ram, Golan Heights (Israel)., J. Geophys. Res., 108, 2379.
• Frank, U., 2007a. Paleomagnetic investigations on lake sediments from NE-China: a new record of geomagnetic secular variation for the last 37 ka. Geophys. J. Int., 169: 29-40.
• Frank, U., Nowaczyk, N.R. and Negendank, J.F.W., 2007b. Rock magnetism of greigite bearing sediments from the Dead Sea, Israel. Geophys. J. Int., 168: 921-934.