1977
Ph.D.: Thermal diffusion enrichment and radiocarbon dating beyond 50,000 years BP. State University Groningen.

1970
Doctoraal: Experimental Physics with Biochemistry, State University Groningen.

1964
Kandidaats: Physics and Chemistry, State University Groningen.

Contracts and functions:
1994 - 2009
Professor of Physics and Director Leibniz Laboratory.

1995 - 1996
Affiliate Professor Geological Sciences, University of Washington.

1993 - 1994
Res. Professor, Geol. Sci. & Phys., U. Washington, same.

1991 - 1993
Res. Associate Professor, Geol. Sci. & Physics, U. Wash., 18O mass spectrometry and 14C-AMS, GISP2 & Taylor Dome ice core projects, paleoclimatology.

1984 - 1991
Senior Res. Associate, U. Wash., same, CO2 cycling under forest canopy, glaciology.

1978 - 1984
Res. Assist. Professor, U. Wash. , 18O mass spectrometry, ice core analysis, 14C AMS.

1977 - 1978
Res. Associate, U. Washington, Seattle, 14C enrichment, K/Ar dating.

1970 - 1976
Res. Associate, U. Groningen, 14C enrichment, 14C dating, paleoclimate.

Projects:
2009-2011
Early monumentality and social differentiation (DFG, Priority Programm 1400), TP Spatial and temporal differentiation of funnel beaker chronologies

2009-2011
Early monumentality and social differentiation (DFG, Priority Programm 1400), TP Improving chronologies based on radiocarbon dating of bones

2008-2011
Biogeochemistry of paddy soil evolution, TP6 14C AMS as a tracer and dating tool in the study of paddy soil carbon dynamics. DFG Forschergruppe

2003 - 2006
APAME: ‘Archeoseismology and Paleoseismology for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Archeological Sites in the Middle East. (EU, FP5 INCO-MED).

2000 - 2006
Soils as source and sink for anthropogenic CO2 (DFG, Priority Program 1090).

2011
Sarnthein, M., P.M.Grootes, A.Holbourn, W.Kuhnt, A.Kühn: Tropical warming in the Timor Sea led deglacial antarctic warming and atmospheric CO2 rise by more than 500 yr. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 302, 337-348.

2010
Grootes, P.M. and Nadeau, M.-J.: The radiocarbon dates from Emar: The Analyses. In: Finkbeiner, U. and Sakal, F. (Eds): Emar after the closure of the Tabqa Dam. The Syrian-German Excavations 1996-2002. Subartu 25, Brepols Publ. Turnhout, 245-256.

2009
Ramirez Rossi, F. V., d´Errico, F., Vanhaeren M., Grootes, P.M., Kerautret, B., Dujardin, V.: Cutmarked human remains bearing Neandertal features and modern human remains associated with the Aurignacian at Les Rois. J. Anthropological Sciences, 87, 153-185

2009
Reimer, P.J., Baillie, M.G.L., Bard, E., Bayliss, A., Beck, J.W., Blackwell, P.G., Bronk Ramsey, C., Buck, C.E., Burr, G.S., Edwards, R.L., Friedrich, M., Grootes, P.M., Guilderson, T.P., Hajdas, I. Heaton, T.J., Hogg, A.G., Hughen, K.A., Kaiser, K.F., Kromer, B., McCormac, F.G., Manning, S.W., Reimer, R.W., Richards, D.A., Southon, J.R., Talamo, S., Turney, C.S.M., van der Plicht, J., Wyhenmeyer, C.E.: IntCal09 and Marine09 radiocarbon age calibration curves, 0-50,000 years cal BP. Radiocarbon, 51: 1111-1150.

2008
Marschner, B., Brodowski, S., Dreves, A., Gleixner, G., Gude, A., Grootes, P.M., Hamer, U., Heim, A., Jandl, G., Ji, R., Kaiser, K., Kalbitz, K., Kramer, C., Leinweber, P., Rethemeyer, J., Schäffer, A., Schmidt, M.W.I., Schwark, L. and G.L.B. Wiesenberg: How relevant is recalcitrance for the stabilization of organic matter in soils? Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 171: 91-110. doi: 10.1002/jpln.200700049.91.

2008
Flessa, H., Amelung, W., Helfrich, M., Wiesenberg, G.L.B., Gleixner, G., Brodowski, S., Rethemeyer, J., Kramer, C., Grootes, P. M.: Storage and stability of organic matter and fossil carbon in a Luvisol and Phaeozem with continuous maize cropping: A synthesis. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 171: 36-51. doi: 10.1002/jpln.200700050.

2007
Naysmith, P., Scott, E. M., Cook, G. T., Heinemeier, J., van der Plicht, J., van Strydonck, M., Bronk Ramsey, C., Grootes, P. M., Freeman, S. P. H. T.: A cremated bone intercomparison study, Radiocarbon, 49/2: 403-408.

2007
Sarnthein, M., Grootes, P. M., Kennett, J. P., Nadeau, M.-J.: 14C Reservoir ages show deglacial changes in ocean currents and carbon cycle. In: Schmittner, A., Chiang, J.C.H., and S.R. Hemming (eds.). Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts - Past and Future Changes of Meridional Overturning. Geophys. Mon. 173, AGU. Wash. DC 10.1029/173GM13: 175-196.

2006
Beets, C. J., Troelstra, S.R., Grootes, P. M., Nadeau, M.-J., van der Borg, K., de Jong, A. F. M., Hofman, C. L., Hoogland, M.L. P.: Climate and Pre-Columbian Settlement at Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe, Northeastern Caribbean, Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 21/3: 271-280, doi:10.1002/gea.20096.

2006
Sarnthein, M., Kiefer T., Grootes, P. M., Elderfield, H., Erlenkeuser, H.: Warmings in the far north-western Pacific promoted pre-Clovis immigration to America during Heinrich event 1, Geology, 34/3: 141-144, doi: 10.1130/ G22200.1.

2006
Zenin, V. N., Leshchinskiy, S. V., Zolotarev, K. V., Grootes, P. M., Nadeau, M.-J., Lugovskoe: Geoarchaeology and Culture of a Paleolithic Site, Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia, 1(25), 41-53.

2004
Conard, N. J., P. M. Grootes and F. H. Smith: Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd. Nature 430, 198–201.

2001
Grootes, P. M., E. J. Steig, M. Stuiver, E. D. Waddington, D. L. Morse and M.-J. Nadeau: The Taylor Dome Antarctic 18O record and globally synchronous changes in climate. Quat. Res. 56, 289–298.

2000
Hanebuth, T., K. Stattegger and P. M. Grootes: Rapid flooding of the Sunda Shelf: A late-glacial sea-level record. Science 288, 1033–1035.

1997
Nadeau, M.-J., M. Schleicher, P. M. Grootes, H. Erlenkeuser, A. Gottdang, D. J. W. Mous, J. M. Sarnthein and H. Willkomm: The Leibniz-Labor AMS facility at the Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany. Nucl. Instrum. Methods, Sect. B123, 22–30.

1997
Grootes, P. M. and M. Stuiver: Oxygen 18/16 variability in Greenland snow and ice with 10-3 to 105-year time resolution. J. Geophys. Res. (Oceans and Atmospheres special issue) 102 (Vol C12) 26455–26470.

1993
Taylor K. C., G. W. Lamorey, G. A. Doyle, R. B. Alley, P. M. Grootes, P. A. Mayewski, J. W. C. White and L. K. Barlow: The ‘flickering switch’ of late Pleistocene climatic change. Nature 361, 432–436.

1993
Grootes, P. M., M. Stuiver, J. W. C. White, S. Johnsen and J. Jouzel: Comparison of oxygen isotope records from the GISP2 and GRIP Greenland ice cores. Nature 366, 552–554.

1978
Grootes, P. M.: Carbon-14 time scale extended: comparison of chronologies. Science 200, 11-15.

In progress
Fernandes, Ricardo: Improving chronologies based on radiocarbon dating of bones: Isotopic indications of reservoir age and diet.

In progress
Bergemann, Stefanie: Neolithic Changes in the Central Elbe-Saale-Region - The Site Zauschwitz, Lkr. Leipzig.

In progress
Bräuer, Tino: 14C AMS as tracer and dating tool in the study of paddy soil carbon dynamics.

In progress
Pokrandt, Jana: The palaeocology of oasis origin of the Arabian Peninsula (4th Mill. B.C.).

In progress
Iwe, Karina: A Study of the Animal Style of Scythian nomadic horse-riders in Central Asia.

2008
Dreves, A.: C-Dynamik in Böden unter forst- und landwirtschaftlicher Nutzung – Untersuchungen mittels Radiokohlenstoff (14C-AMS)

2004
Rethemeyer, J.: Organic carbon transformation in agricultural soils: Radiocarbon analysis of organic matter fractions and biomarker compounds; sehr gut+

1996
Steig, E. J. (1996): Beryllium-10 in the Taylor Dome ice core: applications to Antarctic glaciology and paleoclimatology. Univ. Wash. Seattle, USA.