Since 2022 AG paleoclimate dynamics, Postdoc, University of Potsdam

2019 – 2022 Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft scholarship, University of Tübingen: Geoscience PhD

2014 – 2018 Master of Science, University of Leipzig: Physical Geography

2010 – 2014 Bachelor of Science, University of Leipzig: Geography

Fischer, M. L., Munz, P. M., Asrat, A., Foerster, V., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Marwan, N., Schaebitz, F., Schwanghart, W. & Trauth, M. H. (2024). Spatio-temporal variations of climate along possible African-Arabian routes of H. sapiens expansion. Quaternary Science Advances, 100174. doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100174
Trauth, M. H., Asrat, A., Fischer, M. L., Foerster, V., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Lamb, H. F., ... & Schaebitz, F. (2024). Combining orbital tuning and direct dating approaches to age-depth model development for Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. Quaternary Science Advances, 100208.
Trauth, M. H., Asrat, A., Fischer, M. L., Hopcroft, P. O., Foerster, V., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Kindermann, K., Lamb, H. F., Marwan, N., Maslin, M. A., Schaebitz, F. & Valdes, P. J. (2024). Early warning signals of the termination of the African Humid Period(s). Nature Communications, 15(1), 3697. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47921-1
Scholz, S., Westermann, H., Hegemann, R., Popp, M., Richter, T., Fischer, M. L. & Zielhofer, C. (2023). An international stratigraphic dataset and geological map of the Ahr River catchment, Germany. Data in Brief, 51, 109677. doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109677
Suchodoletz, H. V., Kirkitadze, G., Koff, T., Fischer, M. L., Poch, R. M., Khosravichenar, A., Schneider, B., Glaser, B., Lindauer, S., Hoth, S., Skokan, A., Navrozashvili, L., Lobjanidze, M., Akhalaia, M., Losaberidze, L. & Elashvili, M. (2022). Human-environmental interactions and seismic activity in a Late Bronze to Early Iron Age settlement center in the southeastern Caucasus. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, 964188. doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.964188
Hildebrand, E., Grillo, K. M., Chritz, K. L., Fischer, M. L., Goldstein, S. T., Janzen, A., Junginger, A., Kinyanjui, R. N., Ndiema, E., Sawchuk, E., Beyin, A. & Pfeiffer, S. K. (2022). Buffering new risks? Environmental, social and economic changes in the Turkana Basin during and after the African Humid Period. The Holocene, 32(12), 1373–1392. doi.org/10.1177/09596836221121766
Markowska, M., Martin, A. N., Vonhof, H. B., Guinoiseau, D., Fischer, M. L., Zinaye, B., Galer, S. J. G., Asrat, A. & Junginger, A. (2022). A multi-isotope and modelling approach for constraining hydro-connectivity in the East African Rift System, southern Ethiopia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 279. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107387
Fischer, M. L., Bachofer, F., Yost, C. L., Bludau, I. J. E., Schepers, C., Foerster, V., Lamb, H., Schäbitz, F., Asrat, A., Trauth, M. H. & Junginger, A. (2021). A Phytolith Supported Biosphere-Hydrosphere Predictive Model for Southern Ethiopia: Insights into Paleoenvironmental Changes and Human Landscape Preferences since the Last Glacial Maximum. Geosciences, 11(10), 418. doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11100418
Fischer, M. L., Markowska, M., Bachofer, F., Foerster, V. E., Asrat, A., Zielhofer, C., Trauth, M. H. & Junginger, A. (2020). Determining the Pace and Magnitude of Lake Level Changes in Southern Ethiopia Over the Last 20,000 Years Using Lake Balance Modeling and SEBAL. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, 197. doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00197