Steffen Wolters is a senior researcher at the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research in Wilhelmshaven (NIhK), Germany, and head of the unit for vegetation history for more than 20 years. Being a graduate of the University of Galway, Ireland, and the University of Potsdam, Germany, he specializes in pollen and macro fossil analysis towards the reconstruction of Late-glacial and Holocene landscape evolution under natural and anthropogenic conditions with a particular focus on the northwest German lowlands and its coastal environment.