Function and Responsibilities:

Group Leader Geological Storage

Research Interests:

• CO₂ storage in saline aquifers
• Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) for geological storage
• Permanent sensors and monitoring techniques for surface and downhole geotechnical applications
• Multi-parameter monitoring concepts in combination with numerical modelling

Career:

2009-present  Senior Scientist, Section 6.3 Geological Storage (former Centre for CO2 Storage), GFZ Potsdam

2005-2009       Senior Scientist, Environmental Geotechnique, GFZ Potsdam

1998-2004       Researcher, Rock Mechanics & Tunnelling, GFZ Potsdam

1993-1997       PostDoc, Scientific Instrumentation (Fibre-optic Sensors), GFZ Potsdam

1992-1993       PostDoc, Institute of Optics and Solid State Physics/Photonics Group, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Education:

1992 PhD in Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany

1988 Diploma in Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany

Projects:

Active:
aCQurate (CLIMIT)
Pre-ACT (ERA-ACT)

Closed:
MiReCOL (FP7)
COMPLETE (BMBF/Industry)
DE-FE0012266 (NETL US-DOE)
CMC Project C394 (Carbon Management Canada)
Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative (IVF)
BRINE (BMBF)
CO ₂MAN (BMBF)
CO ₂ReMoVe (FP6)
CO ₂SINK (FP6)

Research Boards and Committees:

Member of the Executive Committee of CO ₂GeoNet - The European Network of Excellence on the Geological Storage of CO ₂

Awards:

2008:    Technology Transfer Award 2008 from the Technology Foundation Brandenburg (Dr. Rüdiger Giese &  Team)