Function and Responsibilities:

Scientific interests

• Palaeoclimatology and palaeoecology of the Holocene
• Ecophysiology of trees
• Multiple tree-ring parameters as palaeo-archives
• Quantitative and qualitative wood anatomy of trees
• Stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in tree rings

 

Projects

• TERENO

• ICLEA

• ClimCell

  Completed Projects

• Adaptability of Norway spruce in Saxonia

• MILLENNIUM - European Climate of the Last Millennium

• Wood Anatomy and Geomorphology (2003 - 2006), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

  Career

• 2017 Habilitation in Geography, Humboldt-University Berlin, "The usefulness of stable isotopes and wood anatomy in dendrochronology", Chair: Christoph Schneider

• 2005 PhD in Resource Management and Environmental Science, School of Resources, Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Doctoral-thesis: "Dendroclimatology of Toona ciliata", Chair: John C.G. Banks

• 1998 Diploma (MSc) in Geography, Department of Geography, University of Bonn Diploma-thesis: "Biogeographical studies within the ecotone between rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest in tropical NE-Queensland, Australia", Chair: Winfried Golte

• 1990-1998 Study of Geography, with minor subjects Biology, Geodesy, Cartography and Photogrammetry at the University of Bonn, Germany

 

Experience

• Since 2009 research scientist/postdoc at GFZ Potsdam

• 2006-2008 research scientist/postdoc, Institute of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere, Research Centre Jülich, Germany, (EU-project MILLENNIUM)

• 2003-2006 research scientist/postdoc, Department of Geography, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (SNSF project “Geomorphology and Wood Anatomy”)

• 2000-2003 PhD Student, School of Resources, Environment & Society, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia; Coordinator of the ANU Forestry Graduate Seminar and Discussion Series

• 1998-1999 DAAD postgraduate research, School of Tropical Environment Studies and Geography, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia; Project on dendropyro-chronological analysis of Eucalypts in Queensland, Australia - Reconstruction of fire history using nutrient signals in tree-rings, funded by the DAAD

• 1996-1998 part-time employee with ecoTech Bonn, Germany

• 1996 student research assistant, Department of Geohydrology, University of Bonn, Germany;

• 1995 student research assistant, CSIRO Tropical Forest Research Centre, Atherton, Australia; Biogeographical survey within the wet sclerophyll forest of Queensland

• 1994 student research assistant, School of Tropical Environment Studies and Geography, James Cook University & CRC TREM, Cairns, Australia; development of a high-resolution digital elevation model for a forested area of the Australian Wet Tropics

 

Selected publications

• Balanzategui, D., Knorr, A., Heußner, K.-U., Wazny, T., Beck, W., Słowiński, M., Helle, G., Buras, A., Wilmking, M., van der Maaten, E., Scharnweber, T., Dorado Liñán, I., Heinrich, I. (2017): An 810-year history of cold season temperature variability for northern Poland. BOREAS. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12274. ISSN 0300-9483.

• Pritzkow, C., Wazny, T., Heußner, K.U., Słowiński, M., Bieber, A.,Dorado Liñán, I., Helle, G., Heinrich, I. (2016): Minimum winter temperature reconstruction from average earlywood vessel area of European oak (Quercus robur) in N-Poland. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology 449, 520-530.

• Heinrich, I., Allen, K. (2013): Current Issues and Recent Advances in Australian Dendrochronology: Where to Next? - Geographical Research, 51, 2, 180-191.

• Creutzfeldt, B., Heinrich, I., Merz, B. (2015): Total water storage dynamics derived from tree-ring records and terrestrial gravity observations. Journal of Hydrology 529, 640-649.

• Liang, W., Heinrich, I., Helle, G., Dorado Liñán, I., Heinken, T. (2013): Applying CLSM to increment core surfaces for histometric analyses: a novel advance in quantitative wood anatomy. Dendrochronologia 31, 140-145.

• Dorado Liñán I, Büntgen U, González-Rouco F, Zorita E, Montavez, J.P., Gomez-Navarro, J.J., Brunet, M., Heinrich, I., Helle, G., Gutierrez, E. (2012): Estimating 750 years of temperature variations and uncertainties in the Pyrenees by tree-ring reconstructions and climate simulations. Climate of the Past 8: 919-933.

• Heinrich, I., Weidner, K., Helle, G., Vos, H., Lindesay, J. and J.C.G. Banks (2009): Interdecadal modulation of the relationship between ENSO, IPO and precipitation: insights from tree rings in Australia. Climate Dynamics 33, 63-73.

• Heinrich, I., Gärtner, H. (2008): Variations in tension wood of two broadleaved tree species in response to different mechanical treatments. International Journal of Plant Science 169, 928-936.

 

Professional Affiliations

• 2006-2012 Board Member of the Association for Tree-Ring Research (ATR)

• Since 2005 Member of the International Association of Wood Anatomists (IAWA)

• Since 2004 Member of the Association for Tree-Ring Research (ATR)

• 2002-2006 Member of the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting, Canberra, Australia (CRC GA)

• 1994-2006 Member of the CRC for Tropical Rainforest Ecology & Management, Cairns, Australia (CRC TREM)

 

Research grants and awards

• 2014       Climate dynamics of the last Millennium derived from cell structures, DFG

• 2005       EU SYNTHESYS Project Research Grant

• 2003       Swiss National Research Grant, SNSF

• 2002       Postgraduate Research Grant, CRC for Greenhouse Accounting

• 2000       International PhD Scholarship, Australian National University

• 2000       International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Australia

• 2000       Postgraduate Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service DAAD

• 1998       Postgraduate Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service DAAD