Function and Responsibilities:

• Senior scientist/geologist
• Member of staff council

Research Interests:

• petroleum system modeling
• modeling of mass and heat transport
  
• modeling of reactive transport and fluid rock interaction
  
• modeling of geological processes
  

Career:

• since 2001 Senior scientist in Sektion 3.2 Organic Geochemistry - petroleum system modeling
  
• 1997 - 2001 Member of North German Basin Group
  
• 1994 - 1997 Scientist in Section 3.4 Modelling of Geologic Processes - modelling reactive transport processes, geothermics
• 1992 - 1994 Postdoc GFZ Potsdam Section 3.4 Modelling of Geologic Processes

Education:

• 1993 Dr. rer. nat. RWTH Aachen/KFA Jülich (Germany)
• 1989 Diplom Geologe RWTH Aachen (Germany)

Projects:

• Modeling biogenic gas generation in the northern sector of the Dutch Northsea
• Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the intermontane Salta basin and Chaco-Paraná foreland basin, Argentina: characterization and evolution of petroleum potential
• Modeling the burial and maturation history of the Haynesville Fm. in East Texas and Northwest Louisiana, USA
• Effect of overpressure on vitrinite reflectance

Research Boards and Committees:

• since 2013 Assoc. Editor for Marine and Petroleum Geology
  
• Member of the library commision Wissenschaftparks Albert Einstein