Function and Responsibilities:

PhD student

Head of sub-project "Multiscale and -temporal detection of landscape indicators for monitoring transformation processes" in LauMon

Coordinator of AgroHyd-X

Research Interests:

• Characteristics of deposits (mineralogy and geochemistry)
• Metals of economic interest
• Iron mineralogy
• Weathering processes
• Mining (extraction and processing)
• Imaging spectroscopy for the characterization of rocks and minerals
• Mineral distribution on tailings using drone/satellite based data acquisition
  

Career:

• since 05/2025: Coordinator AgroHyd-X
• since 01/2023: Research assistant in m4mining
• since 01/2023: Head of the sub-project "Multiscale and -temporal detection of landscape indicators for monitoring transformation processes" in LauMon
• 01/2021-12/2021: Head of the German sub-project "Hyperspectral Lithium Exploration" in LIGHTS
• 08/2018-10/2022: Project management ReMon
  
• since 04/2018: PhD student (University of Postdam, German Research Centre of Geosciences Potsdam), working title of PhD thesis: Spaceborn monitoring of mining activities
• 02/2018-05/2018: Research assistant, German Research Centre of Geosciences Potsdam
• 03/2015-01/2018: Research assistant/Graduate research assistant, University of Potsdam, Project: REEMAP
• 2016 Dipl.-Geol., University of Potsdam, title of diploma thesis: Weathering profiles of the Fen complex, Southern Norway -The behaviour of rare earth elements under moderate weathering conditions-
  

Projects:

AgroHyd-X

The objective of the AgroHyd-X initiative is twofold: first, to optimize the use of water resources in agriculture within two districts in Brandenburg; and second, to improve agricultural production as a whole. To this end, two high-resolution FURUNO weather radars are to be installed in southern Brandenburg, with the objective of improving precipitation measurements and forecasts.

https://www.gfz.de/en/section/remote-sensing-and-geoinformatics/projects/agrohyd-x-optimizing-water-use-in-agriculture

LauMon

In LauMon, an area-wide, remote sensing-based monitoring system at the level of the cultural landscape of Lausitz will be developed. It is building an area-wide data basis for the optimization and stabilization of innovative technologies and adapted land management practice that is developed by the Land-Innovation-Lausitz alliance.

https://www.gfz.de/en/section/remote-sensing-and-geoinformatics/projects/laumon

m4mining

The objective of the project is to develop multi-scale and multi-temporal remote sensing technologies and methods that allow the acquisition, processing and analysis of data from mining and tailing sites to help improving the mining value chain and mitigate the environmental impact of commercial mining activities.

https://www.gfz.de/en/section/remote-sensing-and-geoinformatics/projects/m4mining

ReMon (closed)

Within the ReMon project a prototype monitoring system for mining waste dumps is to be created, which combines software and hardware. Different sensors from space to drone are integrated. The monitoring system is primarily intended for mining applications.

https://www.gfz.de/en/section/remote-sensing-and-geoinformatics/projects/remon/

Lights (closed)

LIGHTS (Lightweight Integrated Ground and Airborne Hyperspectral Topological Solution) is designed to explore new exploration processes at the target scale. A single field survey is sufficient to collect airborne and ground-based data and to identify the exploration target. LIGHTS combines drone based hyperspectral imaging with innovative detection software.

https://www.gfz.de/en/section/remote-sensing-and-geoinformatics/projects/lights/

REEMAP (closed)

Within the REEMAP project, a modular multi-sensor process chain for modern imaging spectrometers shall be created, which enables direct (via absorption characteristics) or indirect (via mineral associations) detection and semi-quantification very fast, reliable and on a large scale, also by technical staff, in order to fulfill the current requirements for cost-effective, fast and reliable exploration and potential assessment.

https://www.gfz.de/en/section/remote-sensing-and-geoinformatics/projects/closed-projects/reemap/