Professional career

• 2016 Appointment as “außerplanmäßiger Professor” (extraordinary professor)
• 2011 Habilitation at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Habilitation Thesis " Biofilm calcification and microbialite formation in context of their depositional environments"
venia legendi in Geology and Palaeontology
• 2005 Deputy Coordinator DFG Research Group "Geobiology of Bio- and Organofilms" (FOR 571)
• 1999: Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
Doctoral Thesis "Calcification of non-marine cyanobacterial biofilms (USA, PR China, Indonesia, Germany) - Implications for the interpretation of fossil microbialites"
• 1992-1997: Fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
• 1995 - 1999: Promotion
• 1994: Diploma at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen
Diploma Thesis "Algenflora und Fazies der miozänen Karbonate am Nordrand des Kratersees im Nördlinger Ries (Süddeutschland)"
• 1989 - 1994: Study of geology and palaeontology at the University of Erlangen

Research Topics

Geomicrobiology:
Biofilm Calcification & Stromatolites
• salt lakes
• karstic streams
• ocean chemistry

Sedimentology:
Nördlinger Ries Crater Lake
(DFG-Project AR 335/9)
• microbial carbonates
• lacustrine sediments
• chemical lake evolution

Palaeontology:
Lower Jurassic Schwarzjura Group
• stratigraphy
• ammonites & bivalves
• seawater currents

Funded Projects: Gepris

Teaching

Modul M.Geo.112: Geomicrobiology
Modul B.Geo.209: Biosedimentology
Modul B.Geo.102, GÜ Va: Regional Geology of Göttingen
Modul B.Geo.107: Geological Mapping

Selected Publications

Arp, G., Dunkl, I., Jung, D., Karius, V., Lukács, R., Zeng, L, Reimer, A. & Head, J.W. III (2021): A volcanic ash layer in the Nördlinger Ries impact structure (Miocene, Germany): Indication of crater fill geometry and origins of long-term crater floor sagging. - Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, 126 (4): e2020JE006764. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006764 (open access)

Arp, G., Gropengießer, S., Schulbert, C., Jung, D., Reimer, A. (2021): Biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the Toarcian Ludwigskanal section (Franconian Alb, Southern Germany). - Zitteliana 95: 57–94. https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.95.56222 (open access)

Arp, G., Helms, G., Karlinska, K., Schumann, G., Reimer, A., Reitner, J. & Trichet, J. (2012): Photosynthesis versus exopolymer degradation in the formation of microbialites on the atoll of Kiritimati, Republic of Kiribati, Central Pacific. - Geomicrobiology Journal 29: 29-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2010.521436

Arp, G., Bissett, A., Brinkmann, N., Cousin, S., de Beer, D., Friedl, T., Mohr, K.I., Neu, T.R., Reimer, A., Shiraishi, F., Stackebrandt, E. & Zippel, B. (2010): Tufa-forming biofilms of German karstwater streams: Microorganisms, exopolymers, hydrochemistry and calcification. - Geological Society Special Publication 336: 83-118, London. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP336.6

Arp, G., Reimer, A. & Reitner, J. (2001): Photosynthesis-induced biofilm calcification and calcium concentrations in Phanerozoic oceans. - Science, 292: 1701-1704, Washington. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1057204

Publications (GöttingenResearchOnline)