Function and Responsibilities:

Post-Doc   

Research Interests:

Paleogenomics

Education:

• 01/2019 - 10/2022 Doctoral researcher at GFZ Potsdam

        Doctoral thesis: Sedimentary DNA-based reconstruction of cyanobacterial communities from Lake Tiefer See, NE Germany, for the last 11,000 years

• 10/2016 - 11/2018 M.Sc. Biochemistry and molecular biology, University of Potsdam

Master thesis at the German Research Centre for Geosciences, Geomicrobiology Section with the title "Deducing human impact on the environment via sedimentary DNA information from Lake Tiefer See (NE Germany)"  

• 02/2008 - 11/2012 B.Sc. Microbiology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Nigeria.

Bachelor thesis at the Microbiology department with the title "Isolation and characterization of coagulase negative staphylococci from anterior nares of apparently healthy students of Obafemi Awolowo University" 

Projects:

• TERENO: Northeastern German Lowland Observatory
  
  "Molecular reconstruction of cyanobacterial population from lake sediments of Tiefer See (NE Germany)" 

https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/scientific-infrastructure/research-infrastructures/regional-observatories/northeastern-german-lowland-observatory-tereno-ne/

Awards:

Doctoral research fellowship of the German Federal Environmental Foundation