Function and Responsibilities:

- Head of section 3.5 "Interface Geochemistry"

Career:

2014/2016: Section 3.5 Lead and Professor in Interface Geochemistry at the GFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

2007– 2020: Professor in Experimental Biogeochemistry, School of Earth and Environment, Univ. Leeds, UK

2005-2007: Reader in Geobiology, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK

2004-2005: University Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, UK

1999-2004: University Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, UK

1996-1999: Postdoctoral Research fellow, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Education:

1995 PhD: Aqueous Geochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

Projects:

European Research Council Synergy Grant "Deep Purple " Darkening the Greenland Ice Sheet" 2020 -2026

European Union HORIZON 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network "ICEBIO: Center for Glacial Biome Doctoral Network"  2023-2027see also ICEBIO website

European Union Horizon 2020 Research Infrastructure grant EXCITE²: Electron and X-ray microscopy Community for structural and chemical Imaging Techniques for Earth materials. This offers transnational access to the PISA facility

Individual  Fellowships hosted / co-hosted in the section: 

1. Marie Sklodowska Marie Curie Fellow: Dr Christoph Keuschnig:  MICOL-FUNTRANS: Microbial soil colonization and structure formation by fungal hyphae mediated transport  (2024-2026)
2. GFZ Discovery Fellow (co-host): Dr Jeffrey P Perez: Coupled dynamics of iron and carbon (bio)geochemistry in (sub)Arctic peatlands in a future warming climate  (2022-2025)

Diamond Ltd (awards of beam time for our projects at the UK synchrotron radiation facility)

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility  (awards of beam time for our projects at the ESRF)

Research Boards and Committees:

Member of the German Science and Humanities Council