since 01/2024: Member of the board of the VGDH – Association for Geography at German-speaking Universities and Research Institutions https://vgdh.de/ (assessor)

since 10/2021: Research Assistant – Institute of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2018-2021: Research Assistant – Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg “Working Group Geomorphology, Soil Geography and Geoarchaeology”

2014-2017: Research assistant – Institute of Geography, University of Cologne “Working Group Quaternary Research and Applied Geomorphology – Department of African Research”

2014-2019: PhD student in the Collaborative Research Center 806 “Our Way to Europe”, subproject A1

2014: M.Sc. “Quaternary Science & Geoarchaeology”, University of Cologne) Master thesis: Stratigraphy and micromorphological analysis of extremely dry cave sediments – The example of Sodmein Cave, Egypt

2012: B.Sc. “Geography” (University of Cologne) Bachelor thesis: The sediment fill of the Middle Paleolithic site Sima de las Palomas, Andalusia – attempt of a lithostratigraphic classification based on sediment color, grain size and magnetic susceptibility.

Geomorphology

Geoarchaeology

Human-environment interaction

Anthropogenic relief changes

Dry areas (Namibia, Egypt)

Germany: Upper Rhine Graben and Lower Rhine Bay

* peer-review

In Press

Fischer, P., Henselowsky, F., Georg, T., Hoffmann, T.: Middle Rhine Valley. In: Lehmkuhl, F., Böse, M., Krautblatter, M. (eds.): Landscapes and Landforms of Germany. Springer. (Aug 2025) Landscapes and Landforms of Germany | SpringerLink

2025

Schmidt, J., Rabiger-Völlmer, J., Henselowsky, F. (2025): Digital terrain models in floodplain research: analysis of natural dynamics and anthropogenic interventions, In: Schenk, G.J., Hillmus, N. (eds.): Flusslandschaften im Wandel. Kleine multidisziplinäre Quellenkunde der Fluvialen Anthroposphäre (Darmstädter Historische Studien 1), Darmstadt, pp. 159-168, DOI: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuprints-00030112.

2024

Henselowsky, F., Becker, T., Bubenzer, O., Mächtle, B., Schnek, G.J., Vött, A. Interrelationships between the Weschnitz river landscape and Lorsch Abbey. In: Recker, U (ed.). HessenArchaeology. Yearbook for Archaeology and Paleontology in Hesse. ISBN 978-89822-254-6. PP. 294-299.

*Richter, J., Kindermann, K., Vogelsang, R. Henselowsky, F. Cultural rhythms and pulses on MIS 5-3 migration episodes of Homo sapiens dispersal in Northeast Africa, Quaternary Science Advances, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100248.

*Appel, A., Becker, T., Wilken, D., Obrocki, L., Fischer, P., Willershäuser, T., Henselowsky, F., Vött, A. The Roman burgus at Trebur-Astheim and its relation to the Schwarzbach/Landgraben watercourse (Hessisches Ried, Germany) based on geophysical and geoarchaeological investigations. Journal of Geomorphology. https://doi.org/10.1127/zfg/2024/0791

von Reumont, F., Simon, M., Dieckmann, U., Vogelsang, R., Henselowsky, F., Budke, A., Schäbitz, F.: On the trail of people 80,000 years ago. An annotated graphic novel . Reimer Verlag. Berlin. ISBN 978-3-496-01702-8 OpenAcces PDF: Link

Kindermann, K., Henselowsky, F., Bubenzer, O. Lithics and landscapes – Middle Palaeolithic raw material resources in Wadi Qena/Egypt. In: Uthmeier, T. & Maier, A. (eds). Stone Age. Studying Technologies of Non-analogous Environments and Glacial Ecosystems. Papers in Honor of Jürgen Richter Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, Bonn. ISBN 978-3-7749-4427-5 (Print)

*Bradtmöller, M., Bubenzer, O., Hecht, S., Tschocke, D., Calvo, A., Jindriska Pérez Fernánde, A., Schmidt, C., Marreiros, J., Henselowsky, F., Hattermann, M., Bauer, L., El-Kassem, M., Living on the slope. The Middle and Upper Paleolithic occupation of Feldberg “Steinacker”. Quaternary Vol. 69. https://doi.org/10.7485/qu.2022.69.102371

2023

*Schmidt, I., Ossendorf, G., Bubenzer, O., Henselowsky, F., Luyt, J., Sealy,J., Hensel, E.: Pockenbank Namibia. In: Beyin, A., Wright, D.K., Wilkins, J., Olszewski, D.I. (eds) Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_57

Kindermann, K., Henselowsky, F., Bubenzer, O. Der Vorhang fällt – unüberwindbare Wüste? In: Archaeology in Germany, 02/2023: 26-29.

*Pastoors, A., Kehl, M., Prieto, A., Henselowsky, F., King, G., Peresani, M., Vaquero, M., Erich Claßen, E.: New light on the Middle Palaeolithic quartzite extraction site Troisdorf-Ravensberg (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). Bonner Jahrbücher 221. ISBN/EAN: 9783805353830. page 3-64.

Henselowsky, F., Willmes, C., Smith M. PaleoMaps: representations of quaternary paleoenvironments, human-environment interaction and human dispersal. Journal of Maps, https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2023.2165378

2022

*Henselowsky, F., Klasen, N., Timms, R., White, D., Lincoln, P., Blockley, S., Kindermann, K., Bubenzer, O. Rare Holocene sediment deposits from Sodmein Playa (Eastern Desert, Egypt) – Stratigraphic assessment and environmental setting. Geoarchaeology 38 (2). 186-198. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21946

*Angel, M., Henselowsky, F., Roth, F., Kadereit, A., Herzog, M., Hecht, S., Lindauer, S., Bubenzer, O., Schukraft, G.: Fluvial activity of the Lateglacial to Holocene “Bergstraßenneckar” in the Upper Rhine Graben near Heidelberg, Germany – first results. E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 71, 213-226, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-71-213-2022

Bauer, L., Bubenzer, O., Bradtmöller, M., El-Kassem, M., Hattermann, M., Hecht, S., Henselowsky, F. Palaeorelief and occupation of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic open-air site Feldberg “Steinacker” In: Archaeological excavations in Baden-Württemberg 2021. wbg Theiss. page 58-61.

*Henselowsky, F., Kindermann, K., Willmes, C., Lammerich-Long, D., Bareth, G., Bubenzer, O.: Palaeoenvironments and landscape diversity in Egypt during the Last Interglacial and its implications on the dispersal of Homo sapiens. Journal of Maps. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2022.2064779

Gerlach, R., Henselowsky, F., Mächtle, B.: Ausbildung von Geoarchäologen und berufliche Perspektive. In: Stolz, C. & Miller, C. (eds). Textbook Geoarchaeology, Springer.

Kadereit, A., Engel, M., Henselowsky, F., Herzog, M., Roth, F., Hecht, S., Bubenzer, O.: Physiogeographical field practicals in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. In: Growe, A., Zipf, A., Schmidt, S. (eds.) Climate change. Challenges for humanity (HGG Journal Vol. 35): Heidelberg Geographical Society

*Woestehoff, L., Kindermann, K., Amelung, W., Kappenberg, A., Henselowsky, F., Lehndorff, E. Anthropogenic fire fingerprints in Late Pleistocene and Holocene sediments of Sodmein Cave, Egypt. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 42, 103411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103411

2021

Kindermann, K., Kuper, J., Bubenzer, O., Henselowsky, F.: Ephemeral but not remote – Insights into the Late Pleistocene of Northeast Africa. In: Litt, T., Richter, J., Schäbitz, F. (eds). The Journey of Modern Humans from Africa to Europe. Schweizerbart Science Publishers. ISBN 978-3-510-65534-2. p. 31-41.

*Herzog, M., Henselowsky, F., Bubenzer, O. 2021. Geomorphology of the Tafilalt Basin, South-East Morocco – implications for fluvial-aeolian dynamics and wind regimes. Journal of Maps 17 (2), 813-820. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2021.1990805

El-Kassem, M., Bradtmöller, M., Hattermann, M., Henselowsky, F., Marreiros, J., Fernandez, A., Schmidt, C. Interdisciplinary research at the Palaeolithic field station Feldberg “Steinacker”. In: Archaeological excavations in Baden-Württemberg 2020. wbg Theiss. page 54-56.

*Henselowsky, F., Eichstädter, R., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Herwartz, D., Almoazamy, A., Frank, N., Kindermann, K., Bubenzer, O.: Speleothem growth phases in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt reveal enhanced humidity throughout MIS 5. Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.05.006

*Henselowsky, F., Rölkens, J., Kelterbaum, D., Bubenzer, O. Anthropogenic relief changes in a long-lasting lignite mining area (“Ville”, Germany) derived from historical maps and Digital Elevation Models. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5103

2020

*Henselowsky, F., Herzog, M., Bubenzer, O. New landscape and climate archives in the southern Namib Desert. In: Zipf, A., Growe, E., Schmidt, S., Klonner, C.: Future Earth. The world 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. HGG-Journal 34 “Heidelberger Geographische Gesellschaft” ISSN 0931-0061.

*Willmes, C., Niedzolka, K., Serbe, B., Grimm, S., Groß, D., Miebach, A., Märker, M., Henselowsky, F., Gamisch, A., Rostami, M., Mateos, A., Rodriguez, J., Limberg, H., Schmidt, I., Müller, M., Hölzchen, E., Holthausen, M., Klein, K., Wegener, C., Weninger, B., Kellberg Nielsen, T., Otto, T., Weniger, G.-C., Bubenzer, O., Bareth, G. (2020) State of the art in paleoenvironment mapping for modeling applications in archaeology – Summary, conclusions and future directions from the PaleoMaps Workshop. Quaternary, 3(2), 13; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat3020013

2019

*Henselowsky, F., Pflüger, O., Bubenzer O.: Impacts of extreme rainfalls in the year 2006 to the vegetation cover on different geomorphological units of the central Kaukausib catchment, southern Namib Desert (Namibia). (ZfG suppl. Volume 62, Number 1, June 2019, pp. 161-181(21), “Advances in Desert Research”) https://doi.org/10.1127/zfg_suppl/2019/0552

2018

Henselowsky, F., A., Almoazamy, A., Fawaz, S., Khairy, H., Kindermann, K., Eichstädter, R., Klahre, N., Schepers, C., Lammerich-Long, D., Klasen, N.,Kehl, M., Bubenzer, O.: Wadi Nakheil cave at the limestone hogback of Gebel Duwi: Interdisciplinary approaches to study palaeoenvironmental changes in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt, Annals of the Geological Survey of Egypt 35, 389-392

*Youssef, M., Henselowsky, F., Bubenzer, O.: Palaeohydrology and its impact on groundwater in arid environments: Gebel Duwi and its vicinities, Eastern Desert, Egypt. CATENA, 117, 29-42.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2018.06.028

*Kindermann, K., Van Peer, P., Henselowsky, F., (2018): At the lakeshore – An Early Nubian Complex site linked with lacustrine sediments (Eastern Desert, Egypt). Quaternary International, 485, 131-139.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.006

2017

Klahre, N., Henselowsky, F., Bubenzer, O. (2017): On the twelve acres, Hochdahl. In: Kehl, M., Bubenzer, O., Fischer, P., Frechen, M., Henselowsky, F., Kels, H., Klahre, N., Zens, J. (2017): Loess and paleosols on the Lower and Middle Rhine: Chronology, pedostratigraphy and references to Paleolithic research. Excursion guide to the 36th annual conference of the Paleopedology Working Group, 25-27.05.2017, Brühl, 59

2016

*Schmidt, I., Ossendorf, G., Hensel, E., Bubenzer, O., Eichhorn, B., Gessert, L., Gwasira, G., Henselowsky, F., Imalwa, E., Kehl, M., Rethemeyer, J., Röpke, A., Sealy, J., Stengel, I., Tusenius, M. (2016). ‘New investigations at the Middle Stone Age site of Pockenbank Rockshelter, Namibia’, Antiquity, 90(353). https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.165

Henselowsky, F., Kindermann, K., Kehl, M., Bubenzer, O. (2016). What influences the sediment composition of a rockshelter in a hyperarid environment? Insights from sedimentological and micromorphological analyses at the archaeological site Sodmein Cave, Egypt . Quaternary International 404, Part B. 207-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.198

*M. Kehl, C. Burow, P. Cantalejo, S. Domínguez-Bella, J.J. Durán, F. Henselowsky, N. Klasen, J. Linstädter, F.J. Medianero, A. Pastoors, J. Ramos, K. Reicherter, C. Schmidt, G.-C. Weniger, (2016). Site formation and chronology of the new Paleolithic site Sima de Las Palomas de Teba, southern Spain. Quaternary Research 85 (2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2016.01.007

2013

*M. Kehl, C. Burow, P. Cantalejo, S. Domínguez-Bella, J.J. Durán, F. Henselowsky, N. Klasen, F.J. Medianero, J. Ramos, K. Reicherter, C. Schmidt, G.-C. Weniger, (2013). The Palaeolithic Site Sima de las Palomas de Teba, Southern Spain- Site Formation Processes and Chronostratigraphy. VIII Reunión de Cuaternario Ibérico, La Rinconada – Sevilla

WiSe 2024/25 Seminar: Map and landscape interpretation; cartography exercise, advanced seminar and field practical “Special Physical Geography” (Hessisches Ried)

Summer semester 2024 Geomorphology exercise, incl. 1 field day, major excursion “Germany”, fortnightly

WiSe 2023/24 Seminar: Map and landscape interpretation; cartography exercises

Summer semester 2023: Lecture “Introduction to Physical Geography II (Geomorphology)”; Lecture “Geoarchaeology”; Advanced seminar and field course “Special Physical Geography” (Lower North Sea Coast)

WiSe 2022/23 Seminar: Map and landscape interpretation; cartography exercises

Summer semester 2022: Seminar: Map and landscape interpretation; advanced seminar and field practical “Special Physical Geography” (East Frisia); Geomorphology exercise, incl. 1 field day

Winter semester 2021/22: Cartography exercise; M12: Advanced seminar and field practical “Special Physical Geography” (Löllbach)

2018-2021: Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg

Summer semester 2021: Small research group “University excursion map Heidelberg and surroundings”, field course “Geoarchaeological investigations at Steinacker”, excursion southwest Germany (3 days), field course Neckarschleifen

Winter semester 2020/21: Proseminar “Selected topics in physical geography”, introductory exercise in physical geography, virtual/online excursion to southwest Germany (3 days), field practical course Bergstraßenneckar

Summer semester 2020: Proseminar “Selected Topics in Physical Geography”, virtual/online excursion Southwest Germany (3 days), field practical “Between Wind and Water – Geomorphology in the Upper Rhine Graben”

Winter semester 2019/20: Introductory exercise in physical geography, excursion to southwest Germany (3 days)

Summer semester 2019: Geomorphological-soil science field course (together with Prof. Dr. Olaf Bubenzer and Manuel Herzog) & excursion Göttingen-Harzvorland (4 days)

Winter semester 2018/19: Introductory exercise in physical geography & excursion to southwest Germany (3 days)

Summer semester 2018: Excursion Southwest Germany (3 days) & Excursion Göttingen-Harzvorland (4 days)

2015-2017: Institute of Geography, University of Cologne

Summer semester 2017: Proseminar “Relief and Soil”

Winter semester 2016/17: Geomorphological mapping Cologne-Bonn Bay (together with Prof. Dr. Olaf Bubenzer) Terrain methods of physical geography in the Cologne area (together with Prof. Dr. Olaf Bubenzer)

Summer semester 2016: Geomorphological mapping of Cologne-Bonn Bay (together with Prof. Dr. Olaf Bubenzer)

Winter semester 2015/16: Field methods of physical geography in the Cologne area
Summer semester 2015: Field practical course in physical geography in the Neanderthal (together with Prof. Dr. Olaf Bubenzer)

Various further training courses as part of the NRW certificate “Professional Teaching Competence for the University”, Center for University Didactics

Early Late Pleistocene environments in Northeast Africa and their relevance for Anatomically Modern Human dispersal. University of Cologne

Blog post on the KlarText Prize of the Klaus Tschira Foundation for Science Communication:

Searching for traces of man’s first journey around the world