M.Sc. Polar and Marine Sciences (Marine Geology)

B. Sc. Geography (Geomorphology)

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Winter semester

“Planetary Exploration: Methods and Instrumentation” (Lectures and Seminars)

Summer semester

“Planetary Exploration: Space Missions” (Seminars)

PhD Project "History of water in Jezero crater on Mars"

Research Interests:

Planetary Geology and Geomorphology, Astrobiology, Mars, Imaging, Remote Sensing, GIS

Peer-reviewed Papers:

• Ovchinnikova, A., Jaumann, R., Walter, S., Gross, C., Zuschneid, W., Postberg, F. (2025). A modeling approach for water and sediment transport in Jezero crater on Mars based on new geomorphological evidence. Icarus. 426. 116349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116349    

• Ovchinnikova, A., Jaumann, R., Walter, S., Gross, C., Zuschneid, W., Postberg, F. (2026). Influence of the western inlet on the northern delta in Jezero crater, Mars: Topographic-compositional analysis and sediment transport modeling. Icarus. 445. 116840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116840  

Conference Abstracts

• Ovchinnikova, A., Jaumann, R., Walter, S. H. G., Gross, C., Zuschneid, W., Postberg, F.(2025) Exploring the connection of the Northern and the Western Deltas in Jezero Crater on Mars, EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025, Helsinki, Finland, 7–12 Sep 2025, EPSC-DPS2025-795, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc-dps2025-795

• Ovchinnikova, A., Jaumann, R., Walter, S. H. G., Gross, C., Zuschneid, W., and Postberg, F. (2024) Water and Sediment Transport Processes in Jezero Crater, Europlanet Science Congress 2024, Berlin, Germany, 8–13 Sep 2024, EPSC2024-748, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2024-748

• Ovchinnikova, A., Jaumann, R., Walter, S. H. G., and Postberg, F. (2024) Modelling the history of water in the Jezero crater, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-4701, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-4701  

• Ovchinnikova A., Jaumann R., Walter S. H. G., Postberg F. (2024) Minimum Timescales of Water-Related Processes in the Jezero Crater. 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 11–15, 2024 in The Woodlands, Texas/Virtual. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2024/pdf/1437.pdf  

• Ovchinnikova, A., Walter, S. H. G., Neesemann, A., Jaumann, R., Postberg, F. (2023) Remove Presumable Spacecraft Jitter of the Context Imager (CTX) Instrument Using "jitter_solve" from the NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline Software to Create a CTX DEM for a Crater in Tyrrhena Terra. 6th Planetary Data Workshop, 26-28 June, 2023 in Flagstaff, Arizona/Virtual. LPI Contribution No. 2991, 2023, id. 7014. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023LPICo2991.7014O/abstract  

Other Publications

• Ovchinnikova, A., Jaumann, R. (2024) Valleys and deltas in Jezero crater, Mars [Dataset]. Refubium. https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/45321  

• Ovchinnikova, A., Walter, S. H.G. (2023) Example script for application of Ames Stereo Pipeline jitter_solve program. Refubium. https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/38921