Funktion und Aufgaben:

• Coordination of Swath-D research within the "4D-MB Mountain Building in Four Dimensions program, Providing seismological data for the SPP 4D-MB, A dense seismological station network in the Central and Eastern Alps"
• European Plate Observing System - Sustainability Phase: Within the EPOS SP task "Test and further develop the best practices for field work and data management of temporary deployments and tailor made QC for dense temporary networks"
  

Karriere:

• Since 2020 Research Scientist at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Section 2.4 Seismology
• Since 2018 Research Scientist at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Section 2.2 Geophysical Deep Sounding and Section 2.4 Seismology
• Since 2002 Research Scientist at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Section 2.4 Seismology
• 1997 - 2001 Scientific Researcher at the Free University of Berlin, SFB-267 "Deformation Processes in the Andes" for scientific activities in South America (Argentina, Bolivia and Chile)

Auszeichnungen:

GFZ-Preis „Wissenschaftsmanagement 2018“ ging an Ben Heit aus der Sektion 2.2 Geophysikalische Tiefensondierung/2.4 Seismologie für seine Rolle als Koordinator des GFZ Dense Arrays SWATH D im Rahmen des SPP 4D-MB (4D-Mountain Building – SPP 2017) und des internationalen AlpArrayKonsortiums.