Function and Responsibilities:

Leader of working group Geochemistry of nuclear waste disposal

Research Interests:

Reactive transport simulations

Hydrogeochemical modelling

Hydrogeology

Nuclear waste disposal

Career:

Since 2024: Working group leader, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam

2022 - 2024: Research fellow (Postdoc), GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam

2018 - 2022: Research fellow (PhD student), GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam

2014 - 2018: Student assistant, Notus energy Plan

2014: Research Assistant (HiWi), University of Potsdam

Education:

2018 - 2022: Doctorate in Hydrogeology from University of Potsdam. Dissertation: "Uranium migration in the Opalinus Clay quantified on the host rock scale with reactive transport simulations"

2010 - 2018: Study of Geoecology (B.Sc. and M.Sc.), University of Potsdam. Master thesis: "Hydromechanical simulations to assess chimney formation in the Viking Graben". Bachelor thesis: "Die Reaktion tropischer Böden auf Wiederbewaldung”

Projects:

iCross - Integrity of nuclear waste repository systems – Cross-scale system understanding and analysis

Research Boards and Committees:

2023 - 2025 Member of GFZ's Internal Scientific Council

Awards:

2025 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2024 Poster prize in the category "Early Career Researchers" at the 9^th Clay Conference in Hannover

2023 Dissertation Award of the Universitätsgesellschaft Potsdam

2022 Friedrich-Robert-Helmert-Award of the Association of Friends and Supporters of the GFZ