Research Interests:

• Analysing and interpreting satellite observations of the global water cycle with a focus on extreme events
• Improvement of gridded time-variable Terrestrial Water Storage (TWS) data measured by GRACE and GRACE-FO
• Modelling of TWS uncertainties
• Satellite altimetry over inland waters
  

Career:

• May 2014 - January 2019: Research Associate at DGFI-TUM (German Geodetic Research Institut, Technical University Munich), Working group "Satellite Altimetry"

Education:

• May 2014 - July 2018: PhD student at DGFI-TUM, member of International Graduate School of Science and Engineering
• PhD thesis Water Level Modelling of the Mekong River with Multi-Mission Altimetry
• October 2016 - December 2016: Stay abroad DTU-Space, Denmark
  
• October 2011 - March 2014: Master of Science "Geodäsie und Geoinformation", Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• October 2011 - June 2012: Stay abroad Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
• October 2008 - September 2011: Bachelor of Science "Geodäsie und Geoinformation", Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Projects:

2020-2023: Global Gravity-based Groundwater Product (G3P), European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

Research Boards and Committees:

• Since 2024: Chair of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) Working Group "Global Terrestrial Water Storage Product: Error Assessment and Improvements"
  
• Since 2024: Chair of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) Working Group "Spatial Leakage Mitigation in Satellite Gravimetry"
• Since 2023: Member of the Internal Scientific Council of GFZ
• 2020-2023: Member of the postdoc representatives at GFZ
  

Awards:

GFZ Wissenstranferpreis 2023 as part of the project group „GRACE-Informationsseite für Global Water Storage“ with three other colleagues from sections 1.2, 1.3, and 4.4.