• Evolution and structure of the biosphere
• Earth and life history (lecture and practical course)
• Palaeozoic and phanerozoic life and habitats (Seminar)
• Evolution and Phylogeny
• Palaeoecology
• Geobiology (lecture and practical course)
• Geomicrobiology (lecture and practical course)
• Biomineralization processes (lecture)
• Limnology (Practical Course)
• Palaeobiology (practical course)
• Clastic sedimentology (practical course)
• Carbonate sedimentology (lecture)

Excursions / field courses

• Introductory field course on sedimentology/palaeontology (Bergisches Land)
• Carbonate sedimentology: Devonian reef evolution (Hönnetal) and terrestrial carbonates (Nordeifel)
• Recent and fossil coast environments (Bretagne, France)

Current BSc-/MSc Projects

• Microbial Mineralisation processes in Subsurface environments and related biomarker
• Spatial and temporal distribution of nutrients in creeks and lakes
• Reconstruction of palaeoenvironmental conditions of the „untere Plattenkalk“ formation Rhenish Massif (Germany)