Function and Responsibilities:

Manager PoF IV-program "Changing Earth - Sustaining our Future"

Coordinator Directors' Meeting

Career:

• since 2009 GFZ:
  • since 2020: Coordinator of the Direcors' Meeting
  • since 2019: Manager of PoF IV program
  • 2012-2018: Manager of Department 4 "Geomaterials" and section 4.1
  • 2009-2016: Department- and Section Assistant
    
• 2007-2009: IFOK GmbH, Berlin (consultancy): Director's PA and Office Manager at the Berlin branch office
• 2004-2005: FAMAB e.V., Rheda-Wiedenbrück (association for exhibition constructions and events): Project Manager and Deputy to the Executive Officer
• 2002-2004: Dr. Heuser AG, Colone (consultancy): Executive Consultant (regional development)
• 1997-1998: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam: foreign language correspondent

Education:

• 2016: Management audit by personnel consulting firm Egon Zehnder
• 2016: Helmholtz Leadership Academy (program "lateral guidance")
• 2015:Helmholtz Leadership Academy (programm "take the lead")
• 2005-2007: Maternity leave
  
• 1998-2002: Business studies degree (diploma) with a focus on tourism, marketing and service management
• 2000: Semester abroad in Australia (supported with CDG and DAAD scholarships)
• 1997: Two-month internship in Barcelona, Spain
• 1995-1997: Certified Foreign Language Correspondent for English and Spanish
• 1991-1992: Exchange year in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (with a scholarship of the German Bundestag and the American Congress)
  

Awards:

• 2023: GFZ-Price for Science Management
• 2002: Honorary Award from Univ. of Applied Sciences FH Westküste