Higher Education

2022
Dissertation in the field of geophysics at the University of Bremen on the subject of “Ultraslow Spreading Processes”, Germany

2015 – 2018
MSc, Marine Geosciences, University of Bremen, Germany

2012 – 2015
BSc, Geosciences, University of Bremen, Germany

Berufliche Tätigkeiten

Seit 2023
Curator for Raw Materials and Mining at the Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany

2022 – 2023
Research Associate and Project Manager (from 08/2022) in the project coordination of the joint research project “Geothermal Alliance Bavaria” at the Technical University of Munich, Germany

2018 – 2022
Research Associate in the Geophysics Section of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, in the project “KNIPAS – Knipovich Ridge Passive Seismic Experiment”, Germany

• Special Exhibition Mine Rescue (under construction)
• Accompanying the clearance of the Mine exhibition during Museum modernisation phase 2, Deutsches Museum (2023)

• Meier, M. (2022). Ultraslow spreading processes - a microseismicity study of the Knipovich Ridge. PhD thesis, Universität Bremen.
• Meier, M., Schlindwein, V., & Schmid, F. (2022). Magmatic activity and dynamics of melt supply of volcanic centers of ultraslow spreading ridges: Hints from local earthquake tomography at the Knipovich Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23, e2021GC010210.
• Meier, M., Schlindwein, V., Scholz, J.R., Geils, J., Schmidt-Aursch, M. C., Krüger, F., et al. (2021). Segment-scale seismicity of the ultraslow spreading Knipovich Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2020GC009375.
• Meier, M., & Schlindwein, V. (2018). First in situ seismic record of spreading events at the ultraslow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 10,360– 10,368.