2024–2025
Late Pleistocene to Holocene climate variations and anthropogenic changes in the North German Plain inferred from lake and peat sediments from Schweriner See
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher | Funded by: German Research Foundation (DFG) | Type: Grant | Head: Prof. Dr. Torsten Haberzettl
2021–2022
High-resolution dating of the Eemian marine deposits at the Sverdlov Factory section
Role: PhD Student | Funded by: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Saint Petersburg University | Type: Scholarship | Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Vladislav Kuznetsov and Prof. Dr. Tony Reimann
Publications:
Ruchkin, M. V., Nosevich, E. S., Sheetov, M. V., & Brill, D. (2024). Stratigraphy and OSL chronology of the Middle–Upper Pleistocene sedimentary sequence and vegetation history during Late MIS6 – MIS5e in the Neva Lowland (St. Petersburg Region, Russia). Journal of Quaternary Science, 39, 745–764. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3618
Ruchkin, M. V., Sheetov, M. V., Taldenkova, Е. E., Pushina, Z. V., Dudanova, V. I., Ovsepyan, Ya. S., Konstantinov, E. A., Nosevich, E. S., & Mustafin, M. A. (2025). Paleohydrological changes in the eastern Baltic Sea during the Middle/Late Pleistocene transition and the Last Interglacial. Quaternary Science Reviews, 360, 109244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109244
2020–2021
Late Quaternary history of the Siberian Arctic and adjacent areas
Role: PhD Student | Funded by: Danish Government | Type: Scholarship | Supervisors: Dr. Dmitry Nazarov and Prof. Dr. Andrew Murray
Publications:
Nazarov, D. V., Nikolskaia, O. A., Gladysheva, A. S., Zhigmanovskiy, I. V., Ruchkin, M. V., Merkuljev, A. V., & Thomsen, K. J. (2022). Evidence for the intrusion of marine Atlantic waters into the West Siberian Arctic during the Middle Pleistocene. Boreas, 51, 402–425. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12558