Academic and professional background Since 2022 Research Assistent at CEZA 2019-2020 Laboratory Manager at Saxony Minerals & Exploration AG Halsbrücke 2019 Training as radiation safety officer 2019 Research Assistent at Czech Geological Survey in Prague 2015-2018 PhD at the Institute for Mineralogy of the Westfälischen Wilhelms-University Münster: Titel of the PhD thesis: “Transport and Recrystallization Processes in Marine Deep-Sea Sediments by using Ca Isotope Fractionation” 2011-2014 MSc. Geoscience at the Institute for Geology und Mineralogy of the University Cologne. Titel of the Master thesis: “Rekonstruktion der Migration spätpleistozäner Pferde und Hirsche des Neuwieder Beckens mittels der Analyse stabiler Isotope (C, O, Sr) des Zahnschmelzes”. (Provenance analysis of late pleistocene horses and red deer from the Neuwied Basin using stable isotopes (C, O, Sr) of the tooth enamel). 2008-2011 BSc. Geoscience at the Institute for Geology und Mineralogy of the University Cologne. Titel of the Bachelor thesis: “Die Lu-Hf Systematik von fossilem biogenem Apatit – ein geochronologischer Ansatz”. (The Lu-Hf systematic of fossil biogenic apatite – a geochronological approach). Memberships Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft (DMG) Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft – Geologische Vereinigung (DGGV) Berufsverband Deutscher Geowissenschaftler (BDG) Publications Berger, D. et al.: The rise of bronze in Central Asia: new evidence for the origin of Bronze Age tin and copper from multi-analytical research Berger, D., Kaniuth, K., Boroffka, N., Brügmann, G., Kraus, S., Lutz., J, Teufer, M., Wittke, A. and Pernicka, E., 2023, The rise of bronze in Central Asia: new evidence for the origin of Bronze Age tin and copper from multi-analytical research, Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023, 0. 03.08.2023