Function and Responsibilities:

Scientist within the GEOZeit project

Research Interests:

subsurface storage - geothermal energy - carbon sequestration -

Career:

2023- recent: Scientist, Helmholtz-Center Potsdam, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany
2022: Research Specialist, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, University of Iceland
2021 – 2022 :Director, Research Centre Breiðdalsvík, University of Iceland
2014 – 2021: Geochemist, Iceland GeoSurvey (ÌSOR), Reykjavík, Iceland
2013 – 2014: Director International Master Program “Economic Geology”, Department of Geosciences, University of Oulu/Finland
2012 – 2014: Lecturer, Department of Geosciences, University of Oulu, Finland
2010 – 2012: Postdoctoral fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
2006 – 2008: Research and teaching assistant, Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany
2002 – 2005: Scientific student assistant, Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany
2001 – 2003: Geological field assistant, Engineering company “Klipfel-Lenhardt-Consult“, Endingen, Germany

Education:

2009: Graduation Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany: Dr rer. nat. (magna cum laude). Title of PhD thesis: "Zeolites in fissures of crystalline basement rocks”

2009: Hermann-Staudinger-Graduate School, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany: 78.22 credit points (>20 credit points: above average participation)

2006 – 2009: Ph.D. study at the Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Freiburg, Germany

2005: Graduation Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany: Diploma (overall grade good). Title of diploma thesis: "Zeolite facies mineralisation in the Hvalfjördur area, Iceland"

2000 – 2005: Geosciences study at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany