Function and Responsibilities:

• Research Scientist
• Working group leader
  
• Head of Geophysical Instrument Pool Potsdam (GIPP)
• Ombudsperson for Good Scientific Practice
  

Research Interests:

Career:

• Oct. - Dec. 2020 Head of section 2.2 "Geophysical Deep Sounding" (interim)
  
• since Sept. 2007 Head of Geophysical Instrument Pool (GIPP) at GFZ; Research Scientist
• 2003 - 2007 Research Scientist at University of Potsdam, SFB 267 "Deformation processes in the Andes", Project TIPTEQ; lecturer;
• 1998 - 2003 Research Scientist at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Section 2.2; lecturer at the University of Greifswald (2000, 2001) and University of Potsdam (2002/2003)
• 1993 - 1998 Scientific Researcher at the Free University of Berlin, FG Geophysics. Member of SFB 267, "Deformation Processes in the Andes"
• 1993 Scientific Researcher at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), SFB 267 "Deformation Processes in the Andes"

Education:

• 1999 PhD (Dr. rer. nat., Free University of Berlin), Title: "Distribution of the Attenuation of Seismic Waves in the Western Central Andes" (in German)
• 1993 Diploma in Geophysics (Free University of Berlin), Title: "Transversalisotropie lamellierter Krustenbereiche bei refraktionsseismischen Untersuchungen"
• 1986 - 1993 Free University of Berlin & University of Hamburg - Geophysics

Projects:

• 4D-MB - "Mountain Building in Four Dimensions" (1) PI of sub-project "Linking surface kinematics to deep structure of the Adriatic indenter near a potential subduction-polarity switch, the Giudicarie Belt (Southern Alps)" dealing with local earthquake tomography in the AlpArray/4D-MB context; 2) PI of sub-project "Activity Field D – SWATH D: Providing seismological data for the SPP 4D-MB, A dense seismological station network in the Central and Eastern Alps"; 3) PI of sub-project "A comprehensive high resolution 3D P- and S-wave velocity model for the Alpine mountain chain using local earthquake data: Constraining crustal structure, lithologies and mountain-building processes"; DFG-funded; SPP 4D-MB 2017)
• SEIZE -"SEismic imaging of the Ivrea ZonE" (Co-PI; DFG-funded)
• "Follow the CO2 (ICDP Eifel): Pre-site survey by large-N passive seismology", part of volcano-seismological experiment in the Eifel (Co-PI, DFG funded)
  
• VECTOR - Project investigating social attitudes, environmental and technical challenges to mining in Europe (Co-PI of geophysical imaging part; EU-funded)
  
• MOSMIN - "Multiscale Observation Services for Mining-related Deposits"; research project to monitor and secure mining-related deposits (Co-PI of geophysical imaging part; EU-funded)
• EPOS-ON - PI of sub-task "Coordinated inventory of mobile instrument pools" (EU-funded)
• MOSES - "Modular Observation Solutions for Earth Systems" (member of the Permafrost Thaw group; involved in development of (seismological) sensor platform; funded by Helmholtz Association)

Research Boards and Committees: