My background is in geology and geophysics. Specifically, my interests and expertise are in exploration geology at borehole and regional scale for the utilization of geothermal energy and for the subsurface storage of energy. Present research also focuses on the determination of heat flow from borehole temperature logs and of petrophysical (rock thermal) properties both from laboratory measurements and well logs.

• Thermal conductivity of sedimentary and crystalline rocks
• Thermal rock properties and temperature prognosis of potential geothermal target areas in the state of Saxony (Germany)
• Heat flow and thermal rock properties of the North German Basin
• The geothermal potential of Luxembourg
• Alteration of a saline sandstone aquifer after 4-year-exposure to carbon dioxide (CO2MAN, BMBF)
• Thermal history, exhumation, uplift, and long-term landscape evolution of the western South Atlantic passive continental margin, Brazil (SAMPLE, DFG)