PhD Student

Moritz Hallmaier

Research Division 2: Marine Biogeochemistry
RU Marine Geosystems

Office:
Room: 8E-102
Phone: +49 431 600 2109
E-Mail: mhallmaier(at)geomar.de

Address:
ºÚÁÏÊÓÆµ | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Wischhofstraße 1-3
D-24148 Kiel

Research interests

  • Paleoclimate and Paleoceanography
  • Marine Isotope Geochemistry
  • The response and influence of the Southern Ocean to changes in Earth´s climate

Resume

  • Since 2023: PhD Student, ºÚÁÏÊÓÆµ Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
    DFG Project as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP): Climatically controlled sedimentation dynamics and export productivity at IODP Site U1537 in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean) over the past four glacial cycles 
     
  • 04/2025 - 06/2025: Visiting PhD Researcher at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA
     
  • 03/2022: Research Stay at Géosciences Paris Sud (GEOPS), Université Paris Saclay
     
  • 2020 – 2022: M.Sc. Physics, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
    M. Sc. Thesis: The Uranium and Neodymium Isotopic Composition of Seawater in the North East Atlantic at the Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg
     
  • 2016 – 2020: B.Sc. Physics, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
    B. Sc. Thesis: Expansion of Pacific sourced deep water in the South Atlantic during past climate changes at the Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg
     

Publications

  • Hallmaier, M., Gutjahr, M., Lippold, J., Hemming, S. R., Gerber, L., Weber, M. E., & Eisenhauer, A. (2025). Authigenic uranium preservation and bottom water oxygenation in the Scotia Sea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26, e2025GC012415.
     

  • Hallmaier, M., Rückert, E.M., Chen, Y. et al. Glacial Southern Ocean deep water Nd isotopic composition dominated by benthic modification. Sci Rep 15, 2586 (2025).