Dr rer. nat. Alexandra Raab
Researcher
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg
Chair of Geopedology and Landscape Development
D-03046 Cottbus
LG 4A, room 3.16
orcid.org/0000-0002-5521-7069
ResearcherID: O-6998-2018
Professional activities
- July 1995 - December 1996
Research assistant with Prof. Dr Jörg Völkel in the research projects Radioecology and Palaeoecosystem Research on Late Latène Earthworks at the University of Regensburg
- January 1997 - December 1999
Research assistant and doctoral student with Prof. Dr H.-W. Hubberten at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam
- September 1999 - January 2001
Maternity/parental leave
- January 2001 - February 2001
Freelance work as a palynologist
- March 2001 - February 2003
Postdoctoral researcher in the DFG Graduate College 462 Palaeoecosystem Research and History at the University of Regensburg
- March 2003 - September 2005
Maternity leave/parental leave
- October 2005 - July 2007
Research assistant and head of the laboratory for sedimentology and palynology with Prof. Dr Jörg Völkel at the University of Regensburg
- August 2007 - March 2010
Research assistant at the Weihenstephan Science Centre at the University of Technology Munich; own position in the DFG project Peat, Colluvium and Soils as Archives for the Reconstruction of the Palaeoenvironment in the Old Lowlands of Regensburg (Burgweinting, City of Regensburg) (DFG Ref. RA 1129/2-1)
- April 2010 - December 2013
Academic assistant at the Research Centre Landscape Development and Mining Landscapes at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg; head of the junior research group Anthropogenic Landscape Change and Palaeoenvironmental Research
- January 2014 - March 2018
Academic assistant at the Research Centre Landscape Development and Mining Landscapes at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg; PI Project Virtual Institute for Integrated Climate and Landscape Evolution Analysis ICLEA - Work Package (WP) 5, funded by the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Initiative Initiative Initiative Initiative and Networking Fund
- Since April 2018
Academic assistant at the Chair of Economics, in particular Environmental Economics at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, c/o Chair of Geopedology and Landscape Development; Central project coordination and processing of the project funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) Recording and evaluation of pre-industrial mine sites in Brandenburg - A contribution to the preservation, protection and sustainable use of a historical cultural landscape (Az 34082/01)
Special research interests
- Soil science
- geomorphology
- geoarchaeology
- geoecology
- Quaternary geology
Selected publications
Hirsch, F., Schneider, A., Bauriegel, A., Raab, A., Raab, T. (2018): Formation, Classification, and Properties of Soils at Two Relict Charcoal Hearth Sites in Brandenburg, Germany. - Frontiers in Environmental Sciences 6:94. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2018.00094
Raab, A., Bonhage, A., Schneider, A., Raab, T., Rösler, H., Heußner, K.-U., Hirsch, F. (2017): Spatial distribution of relict charcoal hearths in the former royal forest district Tauer (SE Brandenburg, Germany). Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.07.022
Raab, A., Takla, M., Raab, T., Nicolay, A., Schneider, A., Rösler, H., Heußner, K.-U., Bönisch, E. (2015): Pre-industrial charcoal production in Lower Lusatia (Brandenburg, Germany): Detection and evaluation of a large charcoal-burning field by combining archaeological studies, GIS-based analyses of shaded-relief maps and dendrochronological age determination. Quaternary International 367, 111-122, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.09.041
Rösler, H., Bönisch, E., Schopper, F., Raab, T., Raab, A. (2012): Pre-industrial charcoal production in southern Brandenburg and its impact on the environment. In: Kluiving, S., Guttmann-Bond, E. (Eds.), Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, pp. 167-178.
Raab, A., Brützke, W., Christophel, D., Völkel, J., Raab, T. (2011): Reconstruction of the fire history in the Siedlungskammer Burgweinting (Bavaria, Germany) in relation to settlement and environmental history. In: Wilson, L. (Ed.), Human Interactions with the Geosphere: The Geoarchaeologcial Perspective. Vol. 352, The Geological Society, London, pp. 137-161.
Raab, A., Völkel, J. (2011): Chapter 6: Holocene soil development and pedogenic clay mineral transformation in Luvisols with different development ages at the Viereckschanze of Poign (Central Bavaria, Germany). In: Fechner, K., Devos, Y., Leopold, M., Völkel, J. (Eds.), Archaeology, Soil- and Life-Sciences Applied to Enclosures and Fields Proceedings of the Session 'From microprobe to spatial analysis - Enclosed and buried surfaces as key sources in Archaeology and Pedology', pp. 121-131.
Raab, A., Leopold, M., Völkel, J. (2005): Vegetation and land-use history in the surroundings of the Kirchenmoos (Central Bavaria, Germany) since the late Neolithic Period to the early Middle Ages. Journal of Geomorphology, Suppl. Vol. 139, 35-61.
Raab, A. (2003): Sediments of Changeable Lake, October Revolution Island (Severnaya Zemlya) as archives of the palaeoenvironment of central Siberia since the Early Weichselian. Reports on Polar and Marine Research 435, 115. https://doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0435_2003
Raab, A., Melles, M., Berger, G., Hagedorn, B., Hubberten, H.-W. (2003): Non-glacial palaeoenvironments and the extent of Weichselian ice sheets on Severnaya Zemlya, Russian High Arctic. Quaternary Science Reviews 22, 2267-2283. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00139-2