• 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
• Palaeobiology (practical course)
• Exercises in sedimentary geology
• Limnology (Practical Course)

Excursions / field courses

• regional Geology and Palaeontology (Bergisches Land)
• Southern Germany
• Bretagne (France) recent and fossil coast environments

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)