Function and Responsibilities:

• Senior Scientist - - working group leader 4D coupled process modelling
• Lecturer at the Technical University in Berlin (TUB)
• Editorial board member (topic editor solid earth) for the Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)

Research Interests:

• Basin/reservoir hydro-thermal-mechanical-chemical simulations
• Geothermal potential of sedimentary basins
• Fluid-rock matrix interaction in fractured systems
• Stress, Deformation and Rheology
• Induced and natural seismicity
• Open-source HPC software development
• GOLEM - a massive scalable modelling platform for thermal-hydraulic-mechanical and (non)reactive chemical processes (THMC) in fractured and faulted porous media
• LYNX (Lithosphere dYnamics Numerical toolboX) - a novel scalable numerical simulator for modelling thermo-poromechanical coupled processes driving the deformation dynamics of the lithosphere
• MESHIT - quality tetrahedral mesh generator based on structural geological information

Career:

• 2014 - 2016  Research associate / Postdoctoral position GFZ Potsdam (working group leader)
• 2012 - 2014  Research associate / Postdoctoral position GFZ Potsdam
  
• 2011 - 2012  Project Leader - Internationale Zusammenarbeit in Bildung und Forschung mit Neuseeland.
• 2011 - 2012  Visiting academic scientist at Industrial Research Limited (IRL), Wellington NZ
  
• 2009 - 2012  Research associate at the University of Potsdam
• 2008 - 2009  Research associate at the GFZ Potsdam
• 2007 - 2008  Visiting academic scientist at CSIRO Exploration & Mining Division, Perth WA
  
• 2005 - 2008  PhD student at the Free University Berlin    

Academic experience - Teaching

• 2017 - today Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin) - Rocks & Reservoir Mechanics
• 2016 - 2017  Potsdam University “Geodynamik von sedimentären Becken”
• 2015 - 2016  Potsdam University  “Geodynamik von sedimentären Becken”
• 2014 - 2015  Potsdam University  “Geologie der Kohlwasserstoffe”
• 2013 - 2014  Potsdam University  “Geodynamik von sedimentären Becken”
• 2012 - 2013  Potsdam University  “Geodynamik von sedimentären Becken”
  
• 2012             GeoEn Summer School – geothermal technologies and modelling
  
• 2011             GeoEn Summer School – geothermal technologies and modelling
  
• 2007 - 2009  Free University Berlin „Grundlagen Beckenanalyse und Beckenmodellierung “
  

Education:

• 2008 Free University Berlin (FUB): Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum Laude)
• 2005 University of Milan:  master's degree (laurea magistrale) in Physics
  

Projects:

Ongoing projects  

• Climate Tectonics Interactions I INITIATE
•  Fault networks in the Rhine Graben rift: Multi-scale modelling for the Energy Transition I TALENTS - collaborator
• Workbench for Digital Geosystem I WBGEo
• Physics-Based Machine Learning for Hierarchical Monitoring Systems I PBML-HM - collaborator
• Effects of Climate Change on Regional Groundwater Dynamics: An Example from Brandenburg
• Fully Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Chemical (THC) Modelling in Advanced Reservoir Engineering
• 3D Marmara
• Geothermal Heat for Urban Areas – Example of Berlin 
• Multidisciplinary approach to conceptual modelling of hydrothermal systems I HyTheC - collaborator
• Automated workflows for meshing of complex 3D geological models
• Thermal state of La Palma (Canary Islands) from a data-integrative approach
• Risk of seismicity due to cooling effects in geothermal systems
  
  

Completed projects

• GeoEn - Joint Research Project on GeoEnergy Research. BMBF grant 03G0671A/B/C
• 3D Modellierung zur Struktur und zum Temperaturfeld des Nordalpinen Vorlandbeckens
• 3D Reservoir Modellierung
• Basin-Scale Geothermal Models
• DEFORM – Deformationsmuster in der Lithosphäre der Alpen
• Digitale Untergrundmodelle – Geotechnologien für Wärmewende und Klimaschutz
• ESM - Advanced Earth System Modelling Capacity
  
• Environmental effects of Hot and Saline Spring Behaviour in the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) and the Northeast German Basin (NEGB).BMBF grant: Kooperation international (01DR12042)
• Erdwärme für urbane Räume am Beispiel Berlin
• Temperaturmodellierung Oberrheingraben
• Stress and strain modelling of the CEBS DFG SPP 1135 projekt "Dynamik sedimntär Systeme unter wechselden Spannungsregimen am Beispiel des zentraleuropäischen Beckens"
• High performance computing in geology - Two phase (NaCl-H20) convective flow in sedimentary basins and the influence of salt tectonic.
  

Research Boards and Committees:

• Editorial Board member of the journal  Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)
• Member of the National Earth System Modelling (NatESM)

Awards:

• 2011 - 2012 BMBF grant: Kooperation international (nr: 01DR12042): “Environmental effects on Hot and Saline Spring Behaviour in the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) and the Northeast German Basin (NEGB)”.
• 2007 - 2008 Visiting grant (MDU DISCOVERY OUTREACH PROGRAM-pmd*CRC/iVEC) at CSIRO Exploration & Mining Division, Perth Western Australia. 
• 2008 Best Doctoral thesis at the Free University – faculty of Earth Sciences – and nomination for the Ernst Reuter Prize award.
  
• 2008 Dr. rer. nat. Summa cum Laude (mit Auszeichnung) - Free University Berlin, Germany.