Function and Responsibilities:

Liaison Officer International Continental Scientific Drilling Program

- Carbon emission assessment and management of the ICDP

- Legal organization of the ICDP

- Strategic ICDP program development

- Interim Secretary ICDP Science Advisory Group

Career:

Since 2025   ICDP Liaison officer

2009 - 2024  Head of Working Group “Scientific Drilling” at the German Research Centre for Geosciences and of the ICDP Operational Support Group

2004 - 2024  Executive Secretary of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, ICDP

Since 1995  Senior Research Associate at German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam

1991 - 1994  Research Associate at the Geological Survey of Lower Saxony, Hannover

1988 - 1991  PostDoc and Reader at the Technical University of Berlin

Education:

PostDoctoral researcher at TU Berlin and British Geological Survey, London from 1988 - 1990    

PhD in geochemistry and geochronology at Technical University of Berlin in 1988

PhD student at Technical University of Berlin from 1984 - 1988 

Diploma (MSc) in Mineralogy (Geochemistry) in 1983           

Studies of Mineralogy, Geology, Geophysics at Kiel University, Germany from 1976 - 1983

Projects:

2023 - 2025  Carbon emission assessment and mitigation in scientific drilling

2008 - 2023  Chairman and Founder of the German Scientific Earth Probing Consortium (GESEP)

2005 - 2024  Founder and Editor-in-chief of the Journal 'Scientific Drilling'

1995 - 2025  Development, organization, and operation of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, ICDP

1991 - 1995  KTB, Continental Deep Drilling Project of Germany, Geochemistry and Petrology of SE Germany

1989 - 1992  Ophiolites and Tectonism in NE Africa

1984 - 1991  Precambrian Evolution of the Northeast African Crust