Function and Responsibilities:

• Head of Department Geoinformation and CIO
• Chair of the Helmholtz Open Science Working Group
• Member of the Steering Board Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC)
• Member of the Steering Board Helmholtz Imaging (HIP)
• Member of the Steering Board of NFDI4Earth
• Member of the Steering Board of the DataHub of the Helmholtz Research Field Earth & Environment
• Member of the Administrative Board of Deutsches Forschungsnetz e.V.

Research Interests:

• data-driven Analysis of complex systems
• complex systems theory
• kernel-based methods in approximation, statistics and machine learning
• mathematical methods in imaging
• applied data science
• open science
• digitalization in scientific organizations

Career:

• since November 2021 Director Department Geoinformation at GFZ
• April 2021 -- October 2021 Head of Central Department Strategy & Digitalization at HMGU
• August 2019 -- March 2021 Head of Central Department ICT at HMGU
• February 2009 -- June 2009 and February 2016 -- May 2016 Visiting professor at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, N.Z.
• August 2008  -- July 2019 Head of Department Scientific Computing at HMGU
• August 2005 -- July 2008 Group Leader Computational Mathematics, Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry at HMGU
• August 2003 -- July 2005 Scientist at Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry, GSF Research Center for Environment and Health
• August 2002 -- July 2003 Visiting professor at Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia, U.S.A.
• January 2001 -- July 2002 Scientist at Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry, GSF Research Center for Environment and Health
• June 1999 -- December 2000 Assistent Professor at Mathematical Institute, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Awards:

• Erskine Fellow of the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, N.Z.
• Digital Science Award (Project "Digital Earth")
• PhD Grant of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg