Function and Responsibilities:

• Research Scientist (Postdoc)

Research Interests:

• Energy storage options for the energy transition in former opencast mines
• Techno-economic modelling of prospective Hybrid Pumped Hydropower Storage (HPHS) installations
• Safe and permanent storage of carbon dioxide in geological formations (CCS)
  
• Numerical simulations
• Thermo-hydro-mechanical simulations
• Hydrogeology

Career:

Since 2018, I have worked as a Research Scientist (Postdoc) in the Fluid Systems Modelling Section at the GFZ in several international EU-RFCS projects.

Education:

• since June 2018: Research Fellow (Postdoc) at the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences Potsdam - Section 3.4: Fluid Systems Modelling
• 2014 - 2017: Research Fellow (PhD student) at the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences Potsdam - Section 3.4: Fluid Systems Modelling
• November - December 2013: Research Fellow at the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences Potsdam - Centre for Geological Storage
• 2013 - 2014: Research Assistant at the IASS - Institut for Advanced Sustainability Studies - Global Soil Forum
  
• 2013: Diploma in Geology, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam, Diploma thesis: Hydraulic characterisation of the of the Stuttgart formation by analysing crosshole pumping tests and inverse modeling
• 2009 - 2013: Research Assistant at the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences Potsdam - Centre for Geological Storage
  
• 2009 - 2013: Study of Geology at the University of Potsdam
  
• 2005 - 2009: Study of Earth Sciences at the University of Potsdam

Projects:

Projects:

TOPS - Technology Options for Coupled Underground Coal Gasification and CO2 Capture and Storage

MEGAPlus - Unconventional MEthane Production from Deep European Coal Seams through combined Coal Bed Methane (CBM) and Underground Coal GAsification (UCG) technologies

ODYSSEUS - Coal-to-liquids supply chain integration in view of operational, economic and environmental risk assessments under unfavourable geological settings

ROCCS - Establishing a Research Observatory to unlock European Coal seams for Carbon dioxide Storage

ATLANTIS - An interdisciplinary feasibility study on hybrid pumped-hydro power storage of excess energy in open-pit coal mines

HydroMine - Development of hydrogen-oriented municipal waste refinery based on a novel borehole gasification process combined with advanced gas separation techniques

Awards:

EGU Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award 2015