Function and Responsibilities:

Group leader Seismics with focus on geological storage.

Research Interests:

• Acquisition of seismic data
• Imaging and inversion of seismic data
• Geophysical surveying in civil engineering and underground construction
• Conformity of observed and predicted reservoir behaviour
  

Career:

1993   Internship at Thor Geophysical Exploration, Kiel, Germany
1996 - 2000   PhD student at Free University of Berlin
2000 - 2005   Post-Doc at Free University of Berlin
2005 - 2009   Post-Doc at GFZ (project coordinator)
2009 - present  Senior scientist and group leader at GFZ

Education:

1996  Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent) in Geophysics at TU Clausthal
2000  PhD in Geophysics at Free University of Berlin

Projects:

Finished:
SFB 267: Deformationsprozesse in den Anden
WIT: Wave Inversion Technology Konsortium
OnSITE: On-line Seismic Imaging for Tunnel Excavation
SOUND: Seismic Observations for Underground Development
TOAST: Toolbox for Applied Seismic Tomography
CO2Sink
3DRep1
CO2MAN
CO2CARE
Helmholtz Alberta Initiative
COMPLETE (BMBF)
Pre-ACT (ERA-ACT)

Research Boards and Committees:

Commision on Application of Geophysics in Rock Mechanics (ISRM)