Function and Responsibilities:

• Postdoctoral researcher: Evaluating renaturalising measures for peatlands using laser-based greenhouse gases measurements and modelling (MoReNat-Q)
  

Research Interests:

The main focus of my current research is on using UAV-mounted measurement devices to measure greenhouse gases (with a focus on methane) at peatland sites. By observing the spatial distribution and patterns of the greenhouse gas emissions the environmental response to different peatland renaturalisation measures can be studied.  

For the previous 5 years my main area of research was the study of the urban climate using large eddy simulation (LES) model PALM-4U. Specific topics included the validation of model derived temperature distributions using crowd sourced data from citizen weather stations and the study of nighttime katabatic cold air flows in the urban environment.

From 2012 - 2020 I studied at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management at the Vienna University of Technology as a research assistant, using the results of this work to write my doctoral thesis. My primary focus was on measuring and analysing the spatial patterns of evaporation using a network of 3 eddy covariance stations at an agricultural research catchment located in Lower Austria, the Hydrological Open Air Laboratory. During this time I also carried out a research campaign in cooperation with the IAEA to partition the eddy covariacne dervied evaporation flux into it's vegetation and soil components using stable isotope measurements and inverse Lagrangian dispersion modelling.

Career:

• 2025 - ongoing - PPost-Doctoral Researcher, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam German

• 2020 - 2025 - Meteorological consultant at Lohmeyer GmbH, Bochum Germany

• 2012 - 2020 - Research Assistant at the Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna Austria 

Education:

• 2012 - 2022 - Doctorate in Hydrology, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna Austria

• M. Sc. In Meteorology, University College Dublin, Dublin Ireland

• B.Sc. in Physics with Astrophysics, Maynooth University, Maynooth Ireland