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Doctoral student Annegret Kranz gets international support

Annegret Kranz, doctoral student at the Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes”, is no longer alone with her charcoal analysis work. Nicole Bilsley from the University of California in San Diego has come to Kiel to support her. The two were brought together via a programme by the DAAD called RISE (Research internships in Science and Engineering). It offers internships of 1.5 to 3 months to undergraduate students from the USA, Canada and the UK. While the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology pays for the scholarships, the Graduate School provides housing for the students from abroad.
When Nicole arrived in Germany in July, the first thing was to assist Annegret, who acts as her mentor, in the field. For three weeks they worked day and night in the Spessart mountains, taking samples of soil from a hole no less than 3.4 metres deep. The next step is to extract charcoal from these samples to use it for reconstructing the vegetation that sprawled over the site some 120 to 500 years ago. Annegret Kranz is very glad about the international assistance: “I could not have followed this aspect of my work so closely without the help of Nicole.” She calls it “a project in the project” – a sideline of her PhD project, but an interesting one.
Nicole, who is going to finish her Bachelor thesis in Environmental Science and Geology next year, always wanted to come to Germany. “The work I do here is exactly matching with my fields of study”, she says. And obviously, she likes it: After the end of her internship, she plans to stay in Kiel and help Annegret for another three months. Her motivation is very clear: “I want to see the results of my work.”

Doctoral students who want to benefit from the RISE program in the future can obtain more information about how to apply for an international assistant visiting the DAAD website (http://www.daad.de/rise).

by Jirka Niklas Menke

rise Nicole Bisley (right) and her mentor, doctoral student Annegret Kranz, extracting charcoal from a soil sample at the Ecology Centre, CAU, Kiel. Photo: by Jirka Niklas Menke.


General Information News Calendar of Events People Johanna Mestorf Academy Ausstellung (Exhibition) Contact & Location Grants & Vacancies Internal Exchange International Workshop 2013		NEWS back to news Doctoral student Annegret Kranz gets international support Annegret Kranz, doctoral student at the Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes”, is no longer alone with her charcoal analysis work. Nicole Bilsley from the University of California in San Diego has come to Kiel to support her. The two were brought together via a programme by the DAAD called RISE (Research internships in Science and Engineering). It offers internships of 1.5 to 3 months to undergraduate students from the USA, Canada and the UK. While the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology pays for the scholarships, the Graduate School provides housing for the students from abroad. When Nicole arrived in Germany in July, the first thing was to assist Annegret, who acts as her mentor, in the field. For three weeks they worked day and night in the Spessart mountains, taking samples of soil from a hole no less than 3.4 metres deep. The next step is to extract charcoal from these samples to use it for reconstructing the vegetation that sprawled over the site some 120 to 500 years ago. Annegret Kranz is very glad about the international assistance: “I could not have followed this aspect of my work so closely without the help of Nicole.” She calls it “a project in the project” – a sideline of her PhD project, but an interesting one. Nicole, who is going to finish her Bachelor thesis in Environmental Science and Geology next year, always wanted to come to Germany. “The work I do here is exactly matching with my fields of study”, she says. And obviously, she likes it: After the end of her internship, she plans to stay in Kiel and help Annegret for another three months. Her motivation is very clear: “I want to see the results of my work.” Doctoral students who want to benefit from the RISE program in the future can obtain more information about how to apply for an international assistant visiting the DAAD website (http://www.daad.de/rise). by Jirka Niklas Menke Nicole Bisley (right) and her mentor, doctoral student Annegret Kranz, extracting charcoal from a soil sample at the Ecology Centre, CAU, Kiel. Photo: by Jirka Niklas Menke.