Jérôme Kaiser obtained his PhD degree in natural sciences at the University of Bremen in 2006. His PhD focused on using lipid biomarkers to estimate sea surface temperature variability in the southeast Pacific over the last glacial/interglacial cycle. As a PhD student and postdoc, he visited renowned scientific institutes including the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the Pierre and Marie Curie University (LOCEAN, Paris VI). In 2010, Kaiser joined the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW) in Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany, where he installed a laboratory for the analysis of molecular biomarkers. As a sedimentologist and paleoclimatologist, he specializes in the development of molecular organic proxies and their application in sediment cores from lake, fjord, and marine systems for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. He has worked at locations including the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the South Pacific, as well as in lakes in Turkey, Germany and Poland.