Anja Terbrüggen

Anja Terbrüggen is a researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), specializing in proxy-based environmental studies. Her work focuses on marine geochemistry, paleoceanography, and climate dynamics using advanced analytical techniques. She contributes to interdisciplinary projects involving sediment core analysis, lipid biomarkers, and isotope geochemistry to reconstruct past environmental conditions.

Her research leverages datasets archived at PANGAEA, emphasizing open science practices. Key areas include Arabian Sea oxygen dynamics, Central Asian aridification, Mediterranean paleoproductivity, and Holocene climate reconstructions in Taiwan and East Africa. She collaborates on international initiatives like the ODP/IODP programs.

Publications highlight expertise in foraminiferal proxies, GDGT applications, and sediment geochemistry. She maintains active involvement in data management and contributes to Arctic and tropical environmental studies through collaborative fieldwork and lab-based analyses.