Funktion und Aufgaben:
        
        
 - Leiter des geomagnetischen Observatoriums Niemegk
- Arbeitsgruppenleiter „Geomagnetische Observatorien“
            Wissenschaftliche Interessen:
        
        
 - Geomagnetismus und Weltraumwetter
 
- Geomagnetische Observatorien
- Wissenschafltiche Infrastruktur und Daten
 
            Karriere:
        
        seit 2014        Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, GFZ Potsdam 
2010 – 2014   Seniorwissenschaftler, DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark 
2007 – 2009   Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Danish Meteorological Institute 
2001 – 2006   Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 
    
                
    
        
            Werdegang / Ausbildung:
        
        2001   Dr. rer. nat., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
1997   DAAD-Stipendiat, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Großbritannien
1997   Dipl.-Geophys., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    
                
    
        
            Projekte:
        
        
 2018 – 2021   CAPES, Brazil, TODAY: Understanding the day-to-day variability of the equatorial electrojet and its longitudinal dependence  (externer Teilnehmer und Mitbetreuer für G. B.Soares) 
 2017 – 2020   The Research Council of Norway, The mesospheric sodium layer as a remotely, optically pumped magnetometer for investigation of Birkeland currents (Mitantragsteller)
2015  – 2019   DFG, Ma 2578/4-1. 
  Quantifying solar flux and geomagnetic main field influence on the equatorial thermosphere-ionosphere system for timescales complementary to satellite 
  missions 
   2013  – 2014   NSF, Award# Matzka/DTU. Magnetometer on Summit for the DTU Greenland Magnetometer Array 
2013 – 2014   The Danish Council for Independent Research. ABZ-Mag: The Automatic aBsolute Z-Magnetometer 
  2013 – 2014   The Danish Council for Independent Research. GreenT: Greenland MagnetoTellurics 
2012 – 2014   The Research Council of Norway. A combined global and local geomagnetic reference model for improving wellbore surveying accuracy (Mitantragsteller) 
2008 – 2012   The Danish Council for Independent Research. SAADAN: South Atlantic Anomaly Danish Magnetic Field Project 
2005 – 2006   DFG, Ma 2578/3-1. Construction and geophysical interpretation of a Central European geomagnetic time series from historic sources 
2004 – 2005   DFG, Ma 2578/2-1. Geomagnetic field variations and persistent non-dipole field contributions recorded by an approximately 130.000 years old lava sequence on Tristan da Cunha 
2003 – 2005   DFG, Ma 2578/1-1. Microstructure of titanomagnetite in ocean basalt and consequences for its natural remanent magnetisation 
    
                
    
        
            Wissenschaftliche Gremien:
        
        
 seit   2024      Chair, INTERMAGNET Operations Committee
 seit   2024      Mitglied, INTERMAGNET Executive Council 
 
 seit   2023      Co-chair, IAGA Working Group V-OBS: Geomagnetic Observations 
 2019 - 2023   Chair, IAGA Working Group V-OBS: Geomagnetic Observations 
 
 2018 - 2022   Chair, SuperMAG Steering Committee, http://supermag.jhuapl.edu/
 seit   2018      Mitglied, SuperMAG Steering Committee, http://supermag.jhuapl.edu/
 seit   2018      Mitglied, IMAGE Science Council, IMAGE magnetometer network, space.fmi.fi/image/
 seit   2016      Mitglied, Ultra Large Terrestrial International Magnetometer Array 
 
 2016 - 2020   Mitglied, Editorial Board of Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group 
 
 2015 - 2019   Co-chair, IAGA Working Group V-OBS: Geomagnetic Observations 
 seit   2010      Mitglied, INTERMAGNET Operations Committee 
Gutachter für Acta Geophysica, Annales Geophysicae, Annals of Geophysics, Data Science Journal, Earth Planets Space, Elements, Environmental Pollution, EOS, Geophysical Journal International, Geophysical Research Letters, Geoscientific Instrumentation Methods and Data Systems, History of Geo- and Space Sciences, Journal of Applied Geophysics, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Marine Geology, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Remote Sensing, Science, Scientific Reports, Space Science Reviews, Space Weather