Dr. Andrea Seim

Woodland/forest history: management history, wood utilization, felling dates
Climate-environmental-human interactions: multi-proxy studies
Historical food security: climate and grain prices, yield history, medieval and early modern times
Paleoclimatology: long-term reconstructions, regional- to large-scale networks, natural and documentary proxy archives
Dendroarchaeology: Dendrochronological dating, reconstruction of settlement development, woodworking techniques, construction types
Cultural heritage: artworks, old masters
Timber trade: dendroprovenancing, timber transport
Settlement history: construction timber, felling dates, dendroarchaeology, human history
Spatio-temporal dynamics: GIS-based analyses, e.g. historical market integration (grain prices), Christianisation process in Scandinavia (runestones)

Grain at any price: Geographical patterns of food security in pre-industrial Europe (Swedish Research Council; 2024 – 2026)
Wood as a historical archive: First insides into wood utilization and burial traditions of the late Scythians in Kyrgyzstan (Fritz Thyssen Stiftung; 2024)
Disentangling socio-political and climatic factors for food insecurity in early modern northern Europe (c. AD 1500–1800) (Swedish Research Council) (2020 – 2023)
Long-term trends in European tree growth over the past 1000 years – an interspecies comparison (DFG; 2018 – 2019)
Jordaens Van Dyck Panel Project (Artois-Baillet Latour Foundation; 2016 – 2022)

Environmental History (B.Sc. Environmental Sciences & Forest Sciences)
Forest Management in Social Change (M.Sc. in Environmental and Forest Sciences)
Forest and wood utilisation in the Black Forest (B. Sc. Environmental Sciences & Forest Sciences
Contributions in Analysis of Forest Policy (B.Sc.), Professional Approaches and Research Skills (M.Sc.)