Staff

Function and Responsibilities:

• Senior Scientist in Terrestrial Gravimetry
• Head of the Gravimetric Observatories including superconducting gravimeters at Zugspitze, Helgoland and Eifel (previously Sutherland)
• Member of the IGETS Directing Board and Contact for the IGETS Data Base

Research Interests:

• Monitoring of temporal gravity field variations with focus on superconducting gravimetry
• Modelling of geophysical, oceanic and (cryo-)hydrological mass variations
• Improved process understanding by gravimetric monitoring and modelling

Career:

2015 -              Scientist at GFZ Section 1.2

2013 - 2015    Postdoc and Lecturer at the Institut für Erdmessung, Leibniz Universität Hannover

2006 - 2013    Research Associate at the Institut für Erdmessung, Leibniz Universität Hannover   

1999 - 2006    Studies of Geodesy at the Technische Universität Berlin

1996 - 1999    Training as a Surveying Technician at the land registry Itzehoe

Education:

2013    Dr.-Ing. at the Leibniz Universität Hannover (with distinction)

2005    Dipl.-Ing. at the Technische Universität Berlin (with distinction)

Projects:

2026 - 2032    Partner in ERC-2025-SyG project SnowShifts

2023 - 2027    Co-Pi in FWF-DFG Weave project G-MONARCH

2021 - 2025    Member of DFG CRC 1464 TerraQ

2013 - 2015    Researcher Excellence Grantee in EMRP project ITOC

2012               Scientist in DFG Cluster of Excellence QUEST

2009 - 2012    Doctoral Researcher in BMBF joint project REAL GOCE

2006 - 2009    Doctoral Researcher in BMBF joint project GOCE-GRAND II

Research Boards and Committees:

2020 -             Member of the IGETS Directing Board

Topical Editor of scientific journals

2018 - 2022    Earth System Science Data

2019 - 2026    Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica