Curriculum Vitae

Educational background:


  • 2018/03-2020/03 and since 2021/03: Postdoctoral Research, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics
  • 2014/10-2018/02: Doctorate of Science in Biodiversity and Ecology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics
  • 2011/10-2014/06: Master of Science in Quaternary Geology, University of Geosciences (Beijing)

  • Research areas:

    Palaeoceanographic reconstruction: investigate the dynamics of ocean environmental changes, ocean currents circulation, past sea-level oscillation, and productivity of seawater by using sediment archives from marine deposits.
    Palaeoenvironmental changes: reconstruct past vegetation, climate, past environmental changes, fire regime by using sediment archives from lakes, swamps, wetlands, coastal regions, etc.
    Human impacts: detect human-introduced eutrophication to the ocean, human-introduced fire, the impact of human activities such as settlements, agriculture, cattle grazing, and landform transformation from the natural ecosystem.
    Research methods: palynological analysis (pollen, spores, algae, photolysis, dinoflagellate cysts, diatom), geochemistry, granulometry, loss on ignition, and macro-charcoal analysis, etc.
    Research area: South Atlantic, South America, southeast Caspian Sea, northern Iran, southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, southeast and northeast Asia.
    Interested topics: land-ocean interactions, vegetation dynamics, and biodiversity changes, long-term climate changes, the impact of human activities, sea-level changes, coastal dynamics, environmental management, explorations of driving mechanisms controlling the global/regional climate.

    Publications:

  • Gu, F., Alizadeh, K., Behling, H. (2021): Late Holocene Vegetation and Environmental Changes of Coastal Lowlands in Northern Iran: Possible Role of Climate, Human Impact and Caspian Sea Level Fluctuations. Wetlands. In review. DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-157366/v1

  • Gu, F.; Ramezani, E.; Alizadeh, K.; Behling, H. (2021): Vegetation Dynamics, Environmental Changes, and Anthropogenic Impacts on the Coastal Hyrcanian Forests in Northern Iran. Journal of Coastal Research 37 (3). DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-20-00033.1

  • Gu, F.; Pätzold, J.; Behling, H. (2020): Evidence of cooling in the tropical South Atlantic off southeastern Brazil during the last 50 kyr. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 272, online DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104128

  • Gu, F.; Chiessi, C. M.; Zonneveld, K. A.F.; Behling, H. (2019): Shifts of the Brazil-Falklands/Malvinas Confluence in the western South Atlantic during the latest Pleistocene–Holocene inferred from dinoflagellate cysts. Palynology Vol. 43, 483-493. DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2018.1470116

  • Gu, F.; Chiessi, C. M.; Zonneveld, K. A.F.; Behling, H. (2018): Late Quaternary environmental dynamics inferred from marine sediment core GeoB6211-2 off southern Brazil. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 496, pp. 48–61. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.01.015

  • Gu, F., Zonneveld, K. A., Chiessi, C. M., Arz, H. W., Pätzold, J., Behling, H. (2017). Long-term vegetation, climate and ocean dynamics inferred from a 73,500 years old marine sediment core (GeoB2107-3) off southern Brazil. Quaternary Science Reviews, 172, 55–71.

  • Thesis:

  • Gu. F., 2018. Late Quaternary vegetation, climate and ocean dynamics inferred from marine sediment cores off southeastern South America. University of Göttingen, PhD thesis, 1-156.
  • Gu. F, 2014. Pollen assemblages and paleoenvironment reconstruction since Pleistocene of Changzhou area, Jiangsu Province. China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Master thesis, 1-41 (in Chinese).

  • Foundation, Scholarships, Grants and Awards:

    Foundation:
    • 2021/06-2021/11 Postdoc (stand-in) in the BMBF project: We only borrowed the earth from our children." Environmental changes and way of life in Central Oman during the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC.: sub-project palynology
    • 2018/03-2021/05 Postdoc in the DFG project: Long-term vegetation dynamics along altitudinal and longitudinal gradients in the Hyrcanian forest region (northern Iran) and the role of climate, sea-level change, fire, and anthropogenic impacts during the late Quaternary
    Scholarships:
    • 2017/10-2018/02 University Scholarship
    • 2014/10-2017/09 CSC Scholarship
    Grants:
    • Conference Grant, by University of Göttingen International Office, to attend the INQUA International Congress, Nagoya, Japan (26th, June -2th, July 2015)
    Awards:
    • Excellent oral presentation for Ph.D. and master research

    Teaching, Student supervision and Computer skills

    Teaching:
    Lecture “Past vegetation, climate and ocean dynamics inferred from marine sediment cores” (2018).
    Lecture assistant for “pollen analysis and environmental reconstruction” (2016/2017).
    Student supervision: Ph.D. student, lab work, micro-fossils identification, and scientific writing
    Computer skills: Illustrator, Photoshop, Tilia, Canoco, CharAnalysis, Core draw, statistic analysis with R/R-studio (age-depth model, ordination, biodiversity analysis), MAT reconstruction.

    International scientific congresses:

    Scientific short talks:
    • Methods in Palaeoecology Seminar, University of Göttingen (online 2021) “The dynamics of wetland ecosystems in northern Iran since the late Holocene”.
    • The 3rd International Spring Pollen Seminar (online 2020) “Evidence of cooling in the tropical South Atlantic during the last 50 kyr”.
    • Academic exchange at Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019) “Long-term ocean environmental changes in southwestern South Atlantic”.
    • The 12th National Congress and the 29th Academic Conference of Palaeontological Society of China, Zhengzhou (2018) “Long-term vegetation, climate and ocean dynamics in southeastern South America”.
    • GeoBremen International Conference, Bremen, Germany (2017) “Long-term vegetation, climate and ocean dynamics inferred from a 73,500 years old marine sediment core off southern Brazil”.
    • Dino11 International Conference, Bordeaux, France (2017) “Long-term vegetation, ocean environment reconstruction based on pollen and organic walled dinoflagellate cysts in western South Atlantic Ocean during the last 73.000”.
    • European Conference of Tropical Ecology, Belgium (2017) “Late Quaternary environmental reconstruction based on pollen and organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst”.
    • XIV International Palynological Congress & X International Organization of Paleobotany Conference, Salvador, Brazil (2016) “Late Quaternary environment reconstruction based on pollen and organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts of marine sediments in southeastern South America”.
    Scientific posters:
    • European Conference of Tropical Ecology, Belgium (2017) “Late Quaternary environmental reconstruction inferred from pollen and organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst”.
    • European Conference of Tropical Ecology (GTÖ) International Congress, Göttingen, Germany (2016) “The sea level change reconstructions inferred from marine sediment cores in southern Brazil”.
    • Clivar Open Science International Conference, Qingdao, China (2016) “Late Quaternary environment reconstruction based on organic–walled dinoflagellate cysts in marine deposits”.
    • XIX INQUA International Congress, Nagoya, Japan (2015) “Late Quaternary vegetation and climate evolution in southeast China”.
    Courses and Workshops:
    • X-ray Fluorescence analysis and data interpretation, University of Bremen, Germany (2019)
    • Workshop: Introduction to thermodynamic modeling with Theriak-Domino software, University of Bremen, Germany (2017)
    • Methods in Paleoecology (macro-charcoal analysis, diatom, non-pollen palynomorphs)
    • Workshop: TILIA and Ocean Data View program (2016)
    • Multivariate analysis of data with R (2014/2016)

    Language skills:

    English (speaking and scientific writing), German (intermediate level), French (2nd foreign language), Chinese (mother tongue)