Function and Responsibilities:

Head of the Gas Hydrate Research Group

Research Interests:

• Permafrost gas hydrates in climate change: challenges and chances
  
• Thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of natural gas hydrates
• Development of processes for storing hydrogen in gas hydrates
  
• Interactions between gas hydrates and microorganism
• Analytics: Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and calorimetry

Projects:

• ECO: Efficient CO₂ capture from exhaust gases and combined treatment of industrial wastewater using gas hydrate technology (2025-2028)
  
• NABUCCO 4 H₂ (2024-2025)
• SUGAR I-III (2008-2018)
• Helmholtz-CAS Joint Research Group (2014-2017)
• COST Action Migrate (since 2014)