Function and Responsibilities:

• Engineer for the GFZ Section 1.4 Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics
  
  
• Technical responsibility for the UAV Pool of Section 1.4
  
  
• Development and operation of UAV for remote sensing applications
  
  
• Further development and operation of an UAV borne sensor system for
  greenhouse gas flux measurements
  

Research Interests:

• Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, drones) in geoscience
  
  
• Airborne sensors and remote sensing
  
  
• Geosphere-atmosphere interactions (carbon, water, heat)
  
  
• Trace gas and turbulence measurements
  
  

Career:

• 2017-pres: Engineer (UAV borne sensor systems) at the GFZ
  
  
• 2012-2017: Field geophysicist and technical staff member of a marine seismic crew for the geophysical exploration company Polarcus, Dubai, U.A.E.
  
  
• 2007-2010: Research scientist and overwintering staff member at Neumayer III station
  Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany and Antarctica
  
  
• 2004-2006: Research scientist and overwintering staff member at Neumayer (II) station
  Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany and Antarctica
  
  
• 2001-2004: Research scientist
  Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
  
  

Education:

• 2010-2011: Helicopter flight training (FAA Private Pilot Rotorcraft - Helicopter)
  Bristow Academy, Titusville, Florida
  
  
• 2008: PhD Atmospheric Chemistry
  Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
  
  
• 2001: Dipl.-Ing. Applied Physics (Engineer)
  Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
  
  
• 1999: Exchange student
  National University of Singapore
  
  
• 1998: Dipl.-Met. (M. Sc. Meteorology)
  Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  

Projects:

• EMERGE "Measuring and Modelling Tectonic CO₂ Emissions Through Time"
  
  
• MOSES: Modular Observation Solutions for Earth Systems
  
  
• TEAM: Trace gas exchange in the Earth-Atmosphere system on Multiple scales
  
  
• AIRMETH: Airborne Measurements of Methane Flux
  
  

Research Boards and Committees:

• GFZ representative at the UAV DACH e.V. - Unmanned Aviation Association