Staff

Function and Responsibilities:

• Work group leader Integrated Sensing
• OPS Manager for UAV specific flight operations in section 1.4

Research Interests:

• Vegetation characterisation (e.g. leaf area, biomass) based on proximal sensing, in particular terrestrial and UAV-based Lidar
• Novel monitoring concepts for vegetation: monitoring lidar, GNSS-T VOD (global navigation satellite system - Transmissometry vegetation optical depth)
• Upscaling of in situ/proximal observations to satellite scale for calibration/validation

Career:

2026 - present: Work group leader Integrated Sensing, GFZ Potsdam

2022 - 2026: Postdoc, GFZ Potsdam

2019 - 2022: Postdoc, Wageningen University & Research

Education:

2019: PhD in vegetation remote sensing, Wageningen University & Research

2015: MSc in Geo-information Science, Wageningen University & Research

2012: BSc in Geography, University of Marburg

Projects:

Current

• 2025 - 2026 DLR VeggieH Phase 0, role: member
• 2024 - 2029 HE NextGenCarbon, role: member
• 2024 - 2025 ESA Forest Digital Twin Component, role: task lead
• 2024 - 2025 ESA QA4EO-2, role: WP lead
  
• 2024 - 2028 HE RemoTrees, role: WP lead
  
• 2022 - 2029 HE FORWARDS, role: member
  

Past

• 2021 - 2025 COST 3DForEcoTech, role: task co-lead
• 2019 - 2024 ESA IDEAS-QA4EO, role: WP lead
• 2019 - 2023 ESA FORESTSCAN, role: WP co-lead
  
• 2021 - 2022 ESA TomoSense, role: WP lead
• 2018 - 2022 COST SENSECO (Optical synergies for spatiotemporal SENsing of Scalable ECOphysiological traits), role: member
• 2015 - 2019 ESA IDEAS+, role: WP lead

Research Boards and Committees:

• StrucNet: continuous monitoring of vegetation structure through autonomous ground based laser scanning, role: Steering Committee