GFZ Friends honours Ebuka Canisius Nwosu with the Friedrich Robert Helmert Prize 2022/2023
The Friedrich Robert Helmert Prize 2022/2023 goes to Ebuka Canisius Nwosu.
Ebuka Canisius Nwosu, who very successfully completed his PhD in Section 3.7 “Geomicrobiology” in October 2022, was awarded the Friedrich Robert Helmert Prize for the best PhD thesis of the year 2022/23.
Ebuka Canisius Nwosu receives the prize for his doctoral thesis on “Sedimentary DNA-based reconstruction of cyanobacteria communities from Lake Tiefer See, NE Germany, for the last 11,000 years”. In his dissertation, Nwosu uses genomic information from very old lake sediments to reconstruct for the first time the dynamics of cyanobacteria in a lake in North-Eastern Germany (“Tiefer See”) for the entire Holocene period. The Tiefer See represents an established climate and environmental archive for the Holocene with a high-resolution age model for the last ~6,000 years. The work was carried out within the framework of the Tereno Northeast German Lowland Observatory.
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