• Project I (seminar & field course) (MSc Geographical Environmental Research) summer term 2023 – „Above- and below-ground storage of organic carbon in an erosional landscape (High Fläming, Brandenburg” (in cooperation with Prof. Fabian Fassnacht, remote sensing FU Berlin, and Dr. Albrecht Bauriegel/Dr. Judith Walter from LBGR Brandenburg)

• Seminar “Current topics of environmental research” (MSc Geographical Environmental Research) winter terms 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2024/2025 – „Environmental research in the Mediterranean area“, “Traditional land use system”

• Student Project (seminar & field course) (BSc Geographical Sciences) summer term 2021 – Creation of a soil nature trail in the forest area of Wüstemark, Brandenburg (in cooperation with Dr. Philipp Hoelzmann, Physical Geography FU Berlin, and Dr. Albrecht Bauriegel, LBGR Brandenburg)

• Lecture “Introduction to Geomorphology and Soil Geography” (BSc Geographical Sciences) summer terms 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 – “Fluvial Geomorphology” and “Soil geography”

• Lecture “Theory and practice of methods in Physical Geography” (BSc Geographical Sciences) summer terms 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 – “Study design & sampling methods”, “Soil erosion and soil conservation”

• Field course “Theory and practice of methods in Physical Geography” (BSc Geographical Sciences) summer terms 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 – Landscape description and Geomorphological mapping, description and sampling of soil profiles

• Lab course “Theory and practice of methods in Physical Geography” (BSc Geographical Sciences) winter terms 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025

• Seminar (including field trips) “Integrated study of geographical topics” (BSc Geographical Sciences) summer terms 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 – “Post-mining landscapes in Eastern Germany”

• Age, genesis and distribution patterns as well as soil formation in sandy loess deposits of the Hoher Fläming (Brandenburg, Germany) - in cooperation with Dr. A. Bauriegel (LBGR Brandenburg) and Prof. C. Lüthgens (BOKU Wien)
• Spatial and temporal patterns of dust inputs in the eastern Mediterranean region (focus: Crete) and their composition and impact on recent soil formation processes

• The Varamin Plain from the late 5th to the early 3rd mill. BCE

Magazine articles

• Kirsten, F., Starke, J., Bauriegel, A., Müller, R., Jouaux, J., Lüthgens, C., Sinapius, R., and Hardt, J. (2024): Age, composition and spatial distribution of sandy loess in north‐eastern Germany (Fläming, Brandenburg), Earth Surf Processes Landf, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5885.
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/esp.5885
• Busch, R., Bernbeck, R., Hessari, M., Kirsten F., Lüthgenns, C.. Pollock, S., Rol, N., Schütt, B., (2024): Linking archaeology and paleoenvironment: Mid-Holocene occupational sequences in the Varamin Plain (Iran). https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21995

• Kirsten, F., Dallmeyer, A., Bernbeck, R., Böhmer, T., Busch, R., Hessari, M., Pollock, S., Schütt, B., (2023): Were climatic forcings the main driver for mid-holocene changes in settlement dynamics on the Varamin Plain (Central Iranian Plateau)? PloS one 18 (10), e0290181. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290181

• Kirsten, F., Heinrich, J. (2022): Soil-sediment-configurations on slopes of Central and Western Crete (Greece) and their implications for late Holocene morphodynamics and pedogenesis – A conceptual approach. Catena Volume 214, ScienceDirect. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106238

• Kirsten, F., Fülling, A., Heinrich, B., Schneider, B., Heinrich, J. (2021): Early Holocene aeolian sediments in southwestern Crete - preliminary results. Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews volume 3, pages 269–287. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-021-00061-w
• Meyer, B., Kirsten, F., Sattler, D. & J. Heinrich (2020): The land use – land degradation nexus in mediterranean landscapes – drivers of change and key processes at selected Natura 2000 sites of Crete, Greece. Journal of Environmental Geography 13 (1-2): 13-24. https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/jengeo/13/1-2/article-p13.xml

• Scholz, M., Riedel, J., Seele, C., Engelmann, R., A., Heinrich, J., Henle, K., Herkelrath, A., Kasperidus, H.D., Kirsten, F., Löffler, F., Masurowski, F., Vieweg, M., Wirth, C. & Sahlbach, T. (2019): Das Projekt Lebendige Luppe – ausgewählte wasserwirtschaftliche Aspekte der Leipziger Nordwestaue. DWA Jahrbuch 2019 Gewässer-Nachbarschaften. DWA-Landesverband Sachsen/Thüringen: 162-175.

• Scholz, M., Seele, C., Engelmann, R., Hartmann, T., Heinrich, J., Henle, K, Herkelrath, A., Kasperidus, H.D., Kirsten, F., Löffler, F., Masurowski, F., Sahlbach, T., Wirth, C. & J. Riedel (2018): Das Projekt Lebendige Luppe – Ein Beitrag zur Renaturierung der Leipziger Nordwestaue. Auenmagazin 14: 14-21.

Doctoral thesis
“Der Humushaushalt mittelsächsischer Ackerböden vor dem Hintergrund unterschiedlicher Grundbodenbearbeitungsstrategien – Unsicherheitsfaktoren bei der Ermittlungflächenrepräsentativer Stoffvorräte und deren Dynamik”  (267 S.)
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-159147

Report

• Kirsten, F., Herkelrath-Bleyl, A., Krüger, A. & J. Heinrich (2022): Entstehung und Eigenschaften der Böden und Sedimente in der Elster-Luppe-Aue. In: Scholz, M., Seele-Dilbat, C., Engelmann, R. Kasperidus, H.D., Kirsten, F., Herkelrath-Bleyl, A. & M. Vieweg (Hrsg.): Die Elster-Luppe-Aue – eine wertvolle Auenlandschaft. Ergebnisse der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung aus dem Projekt Lebendige Luppe. UFZ-Bericht 2/2022: 43-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.57699/RXX9-ZH02

• Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie (LfULG) [Hrsg.] (2018): Kohlenstoff im pfluglosen Ackerbau. Schriftenreihe, Heft 06/2018. https://publikationen.sachsen.de/bdb/artikel/31557