Function and Responsibilities:

• Researcher
• Radiation protection officer

Research Interests:

• Variscan high-pressure continental rocks: provenance, evolution, plate tectonics
• Variscan mantle rocks and metaophiolites: evolution, exhumation, plate tectonics
• Variscan mid-/upper crust: provenance, stratigraphy, evolution, plate tectonics
• Variscan gravitational nappe units: geochemical signature, evolution, emplacement
• Syn- to post-Variscan sedimentation: detritus provenance and age, plate tectonics
• Variscan metamorphic magnetite deposits: origin and evolution
• Neoproterozoic and younger evolution in the Beaver terrane, Antarctic

Career:

• 1985-1989: Res. and Teaching Assistant, Inst. of Geol., Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
• 1989-1991: Researcher, Central Institute for Physics of the Earth, Potsdam, Germany
• 1989-1990: Guest Researcher, 35th Soviet Antarctic Expedition
• 1992-1994: Researcher, German Res. Centre for Geosciences, Dept. Geomaterials
• 1995        : Guest Researcher, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
• 1996-1998: Researcher, German Res. Centre for Geosciences, Dept. Geomaterials
• 2000-2002: Researcher, Inst. of Earth Sciences, University of Potsdam, Germany
• 2008-2009: Researcher, Inst. of Earth Sciences, University of Potsdam, Germany
• 2010-       : Researcher, German Res. Centre for Geosciences, Dept. Geochemistry

Education:

• 1985: Diploma Geology, Bergakademie Freiberg University of Technology, Germany
• 1989: Ph.D. Geology, Bergakademie Freiberg University of Technology, Germany

Projects:

• 1989: Crustal evolution in the northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica, co-workers N.D. Aleksashin, N.N. Krasnikov, A.A. Laiba, A.I. Melnikov
• 1994: Petrogenesis and geodynamics of the Frankenberg metamorphic nappe rocks, DFG grant, co-workers D.A. Carswell, H. Gerstenberger, G. Haase
• 1996: Microthermometry of ultrahigh- and high-temperature rocks of the Saxon Granulite Massif, DFG grant, co-workers S. Hoernes, B. Hagen
• 1997: Age and kinematics of crustal-scale shear zones: isothermal exhumation and crustal thinning in der area of the Saxon Granulite Massif, DFG grant, co-workers H. Kemnitz, R.L. Romer
• 2000: Isothermal exhumation and crustal thinning in der area of the Saxon Granulite Massif, with reference to the research drillholes at Tirschheim and Schweikershain, DFG grant, co-workers H. Budzinski, R. Oberhänsli, R.L. Romer
• 2005: Fe-oxidation state in minerals, DESY grant, co-worker M. Wilke
• 2011: U-Pb and Ar-Ar dating of minerals from metamorphic and syn-orogenic sedimentary rocks as a key to understanding architecture and evolution of collisional orogens, DFG grant, co-workers J. Bek, B. Gaitzsch, R. Oberhänsli, M.J. Timmerman
• 2018: Variscan geodynamics recorded in the Erzgebirge: a petrologic, micro-Raman-spectroscopic, and geochronologic study, co-workers M.J. Timmerman, R. Thomas

• 2021: Prismatine granulite from the Saxon Granulite Massif, Germany: A re-evaluation of the pressure-temperature evolution based on petrologic investigation and micro-Raman spectroscopy, co-workers E. Grew, S. Ferrero, A. Borghini, A. Meixner, M. Wilke, M.G. Yates

Research Boards and Committees:

• 1997-2000: Committee Member, Metamorphic Studies Group, Geol. and Mineral. Soc., UK