Function and Responsibilities:

• COSUMY Project: Study the lithospheric structure and seismicity in Myanmar where the Burma microplate is the hanging wall of the Burma-Andaman subduction zone, bounded in the east by the plate-bounding dextral Sagaing transform fault zone along the margin of the Asian plate. Distribution of earthquakes at the Sagaing fault system and associated transform structures in the hanging Asian plate.

• 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"

Career:

• since 2018  Research Scientist at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Section 2.2 Geophysical Deep Sounding
• since 2002 Research Scientist at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Section 2.4 Seismology
• 1997-2001 Scientific Research at the Free University of Berlin. Member of SFB 267, "Deformation Processes in the Andes"

Awards:

"Science Management Award 2018" from Section 2.2 Geophysical Deep Probing / 2.4 Seismology for his role as coordinator of the GFZ Dense Array SWATH D within the scope of the SPP 4D-MB (4D Mountain Building - SPP 2017) and the international AlpArray consortium.