Function and Responsibilities:

• Project manager and scientist in the Helmholtz-IVF-funded science transfer and validation project "RIM2D".
• Scientist in the project "QuantGRAV - Quanten-Gravimetrie für künftige Erdbeobachtung aus dem Weltraum" funded by DLR.
• Project manager and scientist in the project "Global Gravity-based Groundwater Product (G3P)" based at section "Hydrology" (4.4.).

Research Interests:

• Computer modeling of environmental fluxes
• Model development (e.g. in R and Python)
• Big Data Analyses
• Satellite gravimetry
• Science communication

Career:

• Since 2020: Project manager and scientist at GFZ.
• 2010-2018: PhD-student at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg at the Chair of Soil Ecology. Project title: "Rain Erosivity and Climate Change: Soil Erosion Potential of Mechanized Logging in Steep Terrain"
• 2010-2014: Research and teaching assistant at the Chair of Soil Ecology
• 2006-2008: Research assistant at Forstliche Versuchs- und Forschungsanstalt (FVA), Freiburg
• 2003-2009: Studies in "Hydrology" at ALU Freiburg, thesis for Diploma: "Concepts for Network Structures on Hillslopes"

International activities:

• Coordination of a project in the German-Brazilian program PROBRAL in cooperation with the Universidade Estadual Paulista, SP, Brazil. Project title: „Bodenerosionspotentiale forstlicher Nutzungssysteme unter sich ändernden Klima- und Wirtschaftsbedingungen in Deutschland und Brasilien“. Focus: Soil erosion in forestry and agriculture on tropical soils. Four long-term stays as guest scientist at UNESP between 2011 and 2014.
• Long-term scientific internship at Estación Cientifica San Francisco, Loja, Ecuador, in 2006.

Projects:

• RIM2D
• QuantGRAV -  Quanten-Gravimetrie für künftige Erdbeobachtung aus dem Weltraum
• "Global Gravity-based Groundwater Product (G3P)" based at section "Hydrology" (4.4.).

Research Boards and Committees:

• Member of the advisory board for the project "WADKlim - Auswirkung des Klimawandels auf die Wasserverfügbarkeit: Status quo, zukünftige Entwicklung und Handlungsoptionen"

Awards:

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