Since 2024	Laboratory Manager for Physical Geography
Since 2012	Researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Geographical Sciences, Physical Geography
2021 - 2024	Deputy head of the laboratory for Physical Geography
2017 - 2024	Postdoc in the DFG-project "Die prähistorischen Gesellschaften Obermesopotamiens und ihre Subsistenz"
2013 - 2017	PhD-student in the doctoral program "Landscape Archaeology and Architecture (LAA)" at the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies
2012 - 2017	PhD-student at the Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Earth Sciences. Doctoral thesis: Human–environment interactions in the environs of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania
2009-2012	M.Sc. studies in Geography (Terrestrial Systems) at the Freie Universität Berlin. Masters thesis: Geoarchaeological Terrain and Sediment Analyses in the Lower Kaïkos (Bakırçay) Valley, Western Turkey
2009-2011	Student Assistant in the AI-8 project "Ancient Landscapes in the Environs of Pergamon" in the Cluster of Excellence TOPOI
2005-2009	B.Sc. studies in Geographical Sciences at the Frei Universität Berlin. Bachelors thesis: High-Resolution Terrain Modelling in the Vicinity of the Settlement Felix Romuliana (written in germen)
2004-2005	Community Service
2004	A-levels at the Ratsgymnasium Wolfburg

 

B.Sc.-Teaching

Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (Laborpraktikum)

WiSe 2012/13; 2013/14; 2014/15; 2016/17; 2020/21; 2021/22; 2022/23; 2023/24; 2024/25; 2025/26

Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (Geländepraktikum)

SoSe 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016; 2018; 2023

Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (Vorlesung: Vermessungstechniken)

SoSe 2014; 2015; 2016

Projektbezogenes Arbeiten I – Physische Geographie: Geländearbeit (Lehr-Forschungs-Projekt)

SoSe 2017; 2022

Projektbezogenes Arbeiten II – Physische Geographie: Projektauswertung (Seminar)

SoSe 2017; 2022

Einführung in die Geomorphologie und Bodengeographie (Seminar im Gelände)

SoSe 2016

Einführung in die Klima- und Hydrogeographie (Einführungsseminar)

WiSe 2015/16

Einführung in geographisches und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (Einführungsseminar)

WiSe 2017/18

 

M.Sc.-Teaching

Projekt I – Physische Geographie: Projektvorbereitung (Hauptseminar)

SoSe 2013; 2019; 2024; 2025

Projekt I – Physische Geographie: Geländearbeit (Lehr-Forschungs-Projekt)

SoSe 2013; 2016; 2019; 2021; 2024; 2025

Projekt I – Physische Geographie: Laborpraktikum (Praxisseminar)

SoSe 2025

Projekt II – Physische Geographie: Projektauswertung (Hauptseminar)

WiSe 2013/14; 2019/20; 2024/25; 2025/26

Lektürekurs zur Landschaftsarchäologie (Hauptseminar)

WiSe 2018/19

Peer-review

20. Tarasov, P.E., Kobe, F., Leipe, C., Shchetnikov, A.A., Bezrukova, E.V., Habermann, L.-H., Hoelzmann, P., Nykamp, M., Gliwa, J., Krikunova, A.I., Kostrova, S.S., Long, T., Wagner, M., 2026. Environmental and cultural transformations in the Lake Baikal Region reflect hemispheric-scale changes in temperature and atmospheric circulation over the past 8800 years. Global and Planetary Change 256, 105157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.105157

19. Starke, J., Doğan, M., Ludwig, B., Nykamp, M., Schütt B., Becker, F., 2025. Alluvial fan development mirrors settlement dynamics in the peri-urban surroundings of ancient Pergamon, western Türkiye. Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews 7, 827–853. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-025-00180-8

18. Wogau, K.H., Cordova, C.E., Morett-Alatorre, L., Acosta-Ochoa, G., Nykamp, M., Hoelzmann, P., 2025. Sediment geochemistry and facies analysis as tools to interpret the paleolandscape evolution and pre-hispanic settlement dynamics on the eastern shore of Lake Texcoco (Mexico). Quaternary International 735, 109840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109840

17. Hardt, J., Nykamp, M., Schatte, T., Schimmel, L., Meyer, M., Geschwinde, M., Lönne, P., Hoelzmann, P., 2025. Integrating Geomorphology, Geology, and Geochemical Parameters to Understand the Preservation Status and Spatial Distribution of Archaeological Iron Objects Related to the 235 CE Roman–Germanic Harzhorn Conflict (Lower Saxony, Germany). Geoarchaeology 40, e70012. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.70012

16. Nykamp, M., Becker, F., Hoelzmann, P., 2024. Total organic carbon quantification in soils and sediments: Performance test of a modified sample preparation method. MethodsX 13, 102934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2024.102934

15. Yang, X., Becker, F., Nykamp, M., Ludwig, B., Doğan, M., Schütt B., 2023. Holocene geomorphodynamics of a rural catchment in the Pergamon micro-region (eastern Mediterranean). The Holocene 33 (11), 1407–1421. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231185837

14. Yang, X., Becker, F., Nykamp, M., Ludwig, B., Doğan, M., Doğan, T., Knitter, D., Schütt B., 2023. Mid- to Late Holocene geomorphodynamics in a long-term settled mountain catchment in the Pergamon micro-region, western Turkey. Quaternary Research 114, 69–92. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2022.73

13. Nykamp, M., Hauschulz, S., Hardt, J., Knitter, D., May, J., Hoelzmann, P., 2022. The landscape of the Late Bronze Age royal tomb of Seddin (NE Germany): linking geomorphology, archaeology, and historic evidence. Journal of Maps 18 (4), 619–629. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2021.2020178

12. Nykamp, M., Becker, F., Braun, R., Pöllath, N., Knitter, D., Peters, J., Schütt, B., 2021. Sediment cascades and the entangled relationship between human impact and natural dynamics at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe, Anatolia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 46, 430–442. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5035

11. Nykamp, M., Hardt, J., Hoelzmann, P., May, J., Reimann, T., 2021. Towards timing and stratigraphy of the Bronze Age burial mound royal tomb (Königsgrab) of Seddin (Brandenburg, northeastern Germany). E&G Quaternary Science Journal 70, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-1-2021

10. Becker, F., Knitter, D., Nykamp, M., Schütt, B., 2020. Meta-Analysis of Geomorphodynamics in the Western Lower Bakırçay Plain (Aegean Region, Turkey). Land 9, 338. https://doi.org/10.3390/land9090338

9. Nykamp, M., Knitter, D., Schütt, B., 2020. Sediment descriptions and geochemical analyses of radiocarbon-dated deposits from the vicinity of Göbekli Tepe—A dataset. Data in Brief 31, 106012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.106012

8. Haburaj, V., Nykamp, M., May, J., Hoelzmann, P., Schütt, B., 2020. On-Site VIS-NIR Spectral Reflectance and Colour Measurements—A Fast and Inexpensive Alternative for Delineating Sediment Layers Quantitatively? A Case Study from a Monumental Bronze Age Burial Mound (Seddin, Germany). Heritage 3, 528–548. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage3020031

7. Nykamp, M., Knitter, D., Schütt B., 2020. Late Holocene geomorphodynamics in the vicinity of Göbekli Tepe, SE Turkey. Catena 195, 104759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2020.10475

6. Knitter, D., Braun, R., Clare, L., Nykamp, M., Schütt, B., 2019. Göbekli Tepe: A Brief Description of the Environmental Development in the Surroundings of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Land 8 (4), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/land8040072

5. Nykamp, M., Knitter, D., Timár, G., Krause, J., Heeb, B.S., Szentmiklosi, A., Schütt, B., 2017. Estimation of wind-driven soil erosion of a loess-like sediment and its implications for the occurrence of archaeological surface and subsurface finds – An example from the environs of Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 12, 601-612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.03.030

4. Nykamp, M., Knitter, D., Heeb, B.S., Szentmiklosi, A., Krause, R., Schütt, B., 2017. A landscape archaeological approach to link human activities to past landscape change in the built-up area of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. eTopoi. Journal for Ancient Studies 6, 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/FUDOCS_document_000000026266

3. Nykamp, M., Hoelzmann, P., Heeb, B.S., Szentmiklosi, A., Schütt B., 2016. Holocene sediment dynamics in the environs of the fortification enclosure of Corneşti-Iarcuri in the Romanian Banat. Quaternary International 415, 190-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.118

2. Nykamp, M., Heeb, B.S., Knitter, D., Krause, J., Krause, R., Szentmiklosi, A., Schütt, B., 2015. Linking hydrological anomalies to archaeological evidences – identification of Late Bronze Age pathways at the fortification enclosure Iarcuri in western Romania. eTopoi. Journal for Ancient Studies, Special Volume 4, 77-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-44451

1. Schneider, S., Nykamp, M., Matthaei, A., Bebermeier, W., Schütt B., 2013. Alluvial geoarchaeology of a small drainage basin in western Anatolia: Late Holocene landscape development and the question of the mouth of the Paleo-Bakırçay. Quaternary International 312, 84-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.043

 

Other

7. Becker, F., Busch, R., Nykamp, M., Doğan, M., Schütt, B., 2024. Die Arbeiten der Physischen Geographie – Sedimente des Bergama-Schwemmfächers und Ton-Provenienz der Keramikproduktion an den Ausläufern des Yunt Dağları. In: Pirson, F. (Ed.), Pergamon – Die Arbeiten in der Kampagne 2022. Archäologischer Anzeiger, 2023/2, 257–264. https://doi.org/10.34780/dcx6-x50b

6. Becker, F., Yang, X., Doğan, M., Nykamp, M., Schütt, B., 2023. Arbeiten der Physischen Geographie. In: Pirson, F. (Ed.), Pergamon – Die Arbeiten in der Kampagne 2021. Archäologischer Anzeiger, 2022/2, 354–361. https://doi.org/10.34780/gb88-g9bh

5. Becker, F., Yang, X., Nykamp, M., Doğan, M., Schütt, B., 2022. Sedimentologische Arbeiten der Physischen Geographie. In: Pirson, F. (Ed.), Pergamon – Die Arbeiten in der Kampagne 2020. Archäologischer Anzeiger, 2021/2, 278–287. https://doi.org/10.34780/ayd6-y4fa

4. Nakoinz, O., Knitter, D., Faupel, F., Nykamp, M., 2020. Modelling Interactions in Landscapes. In: Łuczkiewicz, P. (Ed.), Landschaft und Siedlungen, Wydawnictwo UMCS, 12-45.

3. Nykamp, M., 2017. Human–environment interactions in the environs of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Doktorarbeit am Institut für Geographische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin. http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-9743

2. Nykamp, M., Heeb, B.S., Hoelzmann, P., Knitter, D., Krause, J., Krause, R., Szentmiklosi, A., Schütt, B., 2016. Identification of ancient paths within the Late Bronze Age enclosure Cornesti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Geophysical Research Abstracts (abstracts volume).

1. Nykamp, M., Heeb, B.S., Hoelzmann, P., Schütt, B., Szentmiklosi, A., 2014. Preliminary results on sediment and settlement dynamics in the environs of the fortification enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. GeoReview Journal (abstracts volume).

 

Conference contributions

Nykamp, M., Becker, F., Schütt, B., 2024. Paleoenvironmental research in the hinterland of Göbekli Tepe, SE Türkiye. World Neolithic Congress, Şanlıurfa.

Nykamp, M., Becker, F., Schütt, B., 2024. Paleoenvironmental research in the hinterland of Göbekli Tepe, SE Türkiye. Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2024, Madrid.

Starke, J., Becker., Busch, R., Ludwig, B., Nykamp, M., Schütt, B., 2024. (Late) Holocene landscape development of the lower Bakırçay plain (Pergamon Micro-Region, western Türkiye) and its modern alteration. Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2024, Madrid.

Becker, F., Nykamp, M., Yang, X., Schütt, B., 2023. The (dis)entanglement of urban development and sediment dynamics – perspectives from the Pergamon micro-region. Jahrestagung Arbeitskreis Geoarchäologie, Würzburg.

Jouaux, J., Becker, F., Pagels, J., Nykamp, M., Hadler, H., Bebermeier, W., 2023. Identification of sedimentary units based on statistical analysis of geochemical data (p-ED-XRF)—comparing cluster analysis and linear discriminant analysis. Jahrestagung Arbeitskreis Geoarchäologie, Würzburg.

Nykamp, M., Becker, F., 2022. Geoarchaeology: Approaches, Methods, and Examples. Highway to Science! Scientific Archaeology in Turkey with a Special Focus on Basic Research Methods. Online workshop.

Yang, X., Becker, F., Nykamp, M., Doğan, M., Knitter, D., Schütt, B., 2021. Mid–late Holocene alluvial dynamics and the interactions with settlement history: insights from two case studies in the Bakırçay plain around the ancient city Pergamon (Aegean Turkey). Mid‐European Geomorphology Meeting Munich (MGM 2021).

Braun, R., Öğüt, B., Lange, M., Nykamp, M., Knitter, D., Schütt, B., 2021. What happened after Göbekli Tepe? Human-Environmental Interactions in the Urfa Region from a Historico-cultural and Natural Science Perspective. 27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Kiel (online).

Nykamp, M., Becker, F., Braun, R., Knitter, D., Schütt, B., 2021. Holocene sediment cascades and the entangled relationship between human impact and natural dynamics: A case study from the environs of Göbekli Tepe, SE Anatolia. 6th Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2020+1, Madrid (online).

Nykamp, M., Becker, F., Braun, R., Knitter, D., Schütt, B., 2021. A Holocene sediment cascade from the environs of Göbekli Tepe, SE Turkey. 6th Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2020+1, Madrid (online).

Becker, F., Doğan, M., Knitter, D., Nykamp, M., Yang, X., Schütt, B., 2021. Satellite imagery, new sediment profiles and old maps geoarchaeological research on the alluvial settings around Pergamon (2019–2020). 40th International Mediterranean Survey Conference Programme, Istanbul (online).

Braun, R., Clare, L., Knitter, D., Nykamp, M., Schütt, B., 2019. Göbekli Tepe in a landscape context. A work-in-progress report about the manifestation of a turning point in the history of humankind. Society for Near Eastern Landscape Archaeology (SNELA) International Symposium 2019, Istanbul.

Nykamp, M., Knitter, D., Heeb, B.S., Szentmiklosi, A., Schütt, B., 2018. The path network of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, Romania. 5th Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2018, Newcastle & Durham.

Nykamp, M., Knitter, D., Heeb, B.S., Szentmiklosi, A., Schütt, B., 2018. Identification of ancient pathways in the loess landscape of W Romania. 5th Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2018, Newcastle & Durham.

Hoelzmann, P., May, J., Hauschulz, S., Knitter, D., Nykamp, M., 2018. A geomorphological – archaeological map of a ritual landscape in N-Germany. 5th Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2018, Newcastle & Durham.

Nykamp, M., 2017. Human–environment interactions in the environs of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Physisch-Geographisches Kolloquium der Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main. (Auf Einladung von Prof. Dr. Thiemeier)

Knitter, D., Nykamp, M., Nakoinz, O., Faupel, F., 2017. Modelling interaction in landscapes. Humboldt-Kolleg: Landscape Archaeology, Lublin.

Nykamp, M., Knitter, D., Heeb, B.S., Szentmiklosi, A., Schütt, B., 2016. The ancient path network of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, W Romania. International Summer School: Opening the Landscape - Methods in Landscape Archaeology, Berlin.

Nykamp, M., 2016. Landscape development and human-environment interactions in the environs of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Landscape Archaeology and Architecture Lecture Series Spring/Summer 2016, Berlin.

Nykamp, M., Knitter, D., Timár, G., Krause, J., Heeb, B.S., Szentmiklosi, A., Schütt, B., 2016. Quantification of wind-driven soil erosion in a loess-like sediment and its implications on the occurrence of archaeological surface and sub-surface finds. 10th International Workshop of Young Geomorphologists, Werbellinsee.

Nykamp, M., Heeb, B.S., Hoelzmann, P., Knitter, D., Krause, J., Krause, R., Szentmiklosi, A., Schütt, B., 2016. Identification of ancient paths within the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. EGU, Vienna.

Nykamp, M., Heeb, B.S., Hoelzmann, P., Knitter, D., Krause, J., Krause, R., Szentmiklosi, A., Schütt, B., 2015. Identification of ancient paths within the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri. Fortifications: Rise and Fall of Defended Sites in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of South-Eastern Europe, Timişoara.

Nykamp, M., Heeb, B.S., Hoelzmann, P., Schütt, B., Szentmiklosi, A., 2014. Preliminary results on sediment and settlement dynamics in the environs of the fortification enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Late Pleistocene and Holocene climatic variability in the Carpathian-Balkan region (CBW2014), Cluj-Napoca.

Nykamp, M., Heeb, B.S., Hoelzmann, P., Schütt, B., Szentmiklosi, A., 2014. First results on late Quaternary sediment dynamics in the environs of the fortification enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Arbeitskreis Geomorphologie 2014, Kiel.

Nykamp, M., Heeb, B.S., Hoelzmann, P., Röpke, A., Schütt, B., Stobbe, A., Szentmiklosi, A., 2014. Past sediment and vegetation dynamics in the hinterland of the Late Bronze Age fortification enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania – first results. 3rd Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2014, Rom.

Nykamp, M., Schneider, S., Schütt, B., 2012. Geomorphological and Sedimentological Investigations in the Surroundings of the Ancient City of Atarneus. 2nd Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2012, Berlin.