Function and Responsibilities:

Research Interests:

• Satellite Altimetry over the oceans and inland waters
• Implementation and analysis of correction models for satellite altimetry
• Analysis of tide gauge data
• Estimation sea level errors from altimetry
  
• Study of global and regional sea level rise and variability, including steric and mass contributions
• Coastal sea level
  
  

Career:

• since 2002: Scientist at GFZ
• 2000-2002: Postdoc at GKSS, Institute of Coastal Research
• 1995-2000: Research scientist at University of Hamburg, Institute for Oceanography
  
  

Education:

• 2001 PhD (Dr.rer.nat.) Geoscience and Climate Studies (Meereshöhen und ozeanische Zirkulation
  im Nordatlantik zwischen 1992 und 1998), University of Hamburg, Institute for Oceanography
• 1995 Diploma (HF-Radar measurements of surface currents in the Pommeranian Bight, Baltic Sea), University of Hamburg, Institute for Oceanography