Curriculum vitae PD Dr. Barbara Mohr

Education and degrees

1972
Graduation from Gymnasium (Highschool) Hohenbaden, Baden-Baden.

1973-78
Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn in the subjects Geology/Palaeontology.

1978
Completed Masters Thesis: "Geology of the Montagne Noire northeast of Laurens, France" (in German) at Bonn University.

1982
Completed Ph.D. Thesis "The Microflora of the sediments overlying the Rhenanian browncoal measures (late Miocene - early Pliocene)" (in German) at Bonn University/Free University Berlin.

1989
Participation in an ETH-course on "Ecology of lacustrine environments", Zurich, Switzerland.

2000
Habilitation at the Humboldt University Berlin in the field of palaeobotany.


Employment and Research Activities


1979-1980
Graduate assistent, Palaeontological Institute, Bonn.

1981-1985
Post-doctoral scientist at the Palaeontological Institute, FU Berlin.

1983-1985
Participation in several scientific projects at the FU Berlin: "Early mammals in the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula" and "Mobility of active continental margins" with field work in Spain, Portugal and Morocco.

1986-1989
Junior Scientist at the Geological Institute of the ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

1987
Member, ODP-Cruise Leg 113 to the Weddell Sea.

1987-1996
Head researcher of three scientific projects concerning palynology, vegetation history and climate change during the Mesozoic and Tertiary of Antarctica.

1990 - 1995
Assistent professor at the Geological Institute of the ETH-Zürich.

1991-1996
Projects: Floristic-ecologic, climatologic and geologic studies on Neogene sediments of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Since 1995
Scientist and Curator at the Palaeontological Institute of the Museum of Natural History, Humboldt University, Berlin.

1996-1999
Cooperation with the AWI Potsdam, Lake Baikal Project.

Since 1997
Work on Mesozoic floras from low latitudes in close cooperation with Brazilian, Swedish, British and French colleagues.

2000-2004
Participation in various research projects, sponsored by the DFG, including the Berlin Graduate College “Evolutive Transformationen" and ODP related projects (Legs 183 and189)

Since 2005
Woman’s representative of the MfN.

2007-2010
Participation in the Antarctic Drilling Program (ANDRILL)