Scientific career Jan-Hendrik May
| Since 01/2015 | Senior Lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) - Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences - Geology, University of Freiburg, Germany |
| Since 01/2010 |
Visiting Lecturer ('Profesor Visitante') - Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Argentina |
| 2012 – 2014 | DECRA (Discovery Early Career Research Award) Fellow - School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia (Project DE120103033) |
| 2011 | Associate Research Fellow - School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia (financed by ARC Project DP0667182) |
| 2011 | Honorary Fellow - School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia (linked to ARC Project DP0667182) |
| 2010 – 2011 | Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (financed by NSFC fellowship for young researchers) |
| 2010 – 2011 |
Visiting Fellow at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia (linked to ARC Project DP0667182) |
| 2009 – 2010 |
Visiting Fellow at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia (financed by SNF fellowship for prospective researchers) |
| 2009 |
Head of Research Group for Paleoecology and landscape evolution at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern (in replacement of Prof. H. Veit) |
| 2008 – 2009 | Postdoctoral Research in the project „Geoarchaeology and pre-Columbian landscape evolution of the Llanos de Moxos, NE Bolivia“ (financed by University of Bern Research Foundation Grant) |
| 2007 – 2009 | Academic Assistant in the Group for Paleoecology and landscape evolution at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 2003 – 2007 | Dissertation (Ph.D.) at the University of Bern, Switzerland "Late Quaternary paleoenvironments of Eastern Bolivia deduced from geomorphological and paleopedological archives" |
| 2002 |
Degree (Diplom / M.Sc.) at the University of Würzburg, Germany Thesis "The Quebrada de Purmamarca, Jujuy, NW-Argentina: Landscape Evolution and Morphodynamics in the Semi-Arid Andes" |
| 1999 – 2000 | Internships at the Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Germany, and the Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina |
| 1998 – 1999 | Studies Abroad at the University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| 1995 – 2003 |
Studies of Geography with minors in Geology and Statistics at the University of Würzburg, Germany |