Function and Responsibilities:

Senior scientist

PI of the IPOC Creepmeter Observatory and Erna Creep monitoring of the unstable flank

Research Interests:

I am an Earth Scientist driven by a deep curiosity about the processes that shape the landscape of the earth, provide resources and trigger geohazards. With a background in structural geology, I am dedicated to active tectonics and fault monitoring.  Using a field-based approach, I focus on fault zone mapping, 3D fault evolution and interaction, fault structure and composition and displacement monitoring. I bring over two decades of expertise when it comes to tectonic faulting from micro- to orogen scale, from millions of years to seconds and in various tectonic settings.

On the long-term time scale, I work on the effects of faults on landscape evolution, with a particular interest in drainage rerouting. On the short-term time scale, I work on monitoring faults to obtain time series that allow us to understand the mechanisms that can set faults in motion and trigger slow slip or earthquakes.  

Career:

2023 - present      Senior scientist (50%), GFZ Potsdam, Germany

2005  –  2022        Senior scientist and science management, GFZ Potsdam, Germany

2001 -    2005       Assistant Professor (C1) in Structural Geology at Leibnitz Universität Hannover, Germany

2000 -    2001       Postdoctoral position at Institut Français du Pétrole, France

1997 -    2000       Research assistant, GFZ Potsdam, Germany

Two children *2003,*2007

Education:

 2000    PhD in Geoscience at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

1996     Diploma in Geology at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany       

Projects:

CRC 1211 "Earth: Evolution at the dry limit"

     Project C05: Tectonic geomorphology: Adaptation of drainage to tectonic forcing.  (DFG 2024-2028)

IPOC: Integrated Plate Boundary Observatory Chile

    IPOC Creep: Monitoring seismic and silent faulting along the Atacama Fault System, N-Chile (2009-ongoing)

Etna CREEP - onshore Creepmeter monitoring of the unstable SE flank (2021-2026)

FAST: Investigating mechanisms of aseismic and seismic FAult Slip Triggering as a proxy to measure fault strength 

        (DFG 2025-2028)