• CO₂ storage in geological formations
• Numerische simulation
• Environmental site assessment
• Hydrogeology

• CO₂MAN (Project Manager)
• CO₂CARE

Since 2009
Principal Research Scientist, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

2006 to 2009
Project Manager, Environmental Site Assessment, Golder Associates GmbH, Celle

2001 to 2006
Research Associate, Hamburg University of Technology, Water Resources and Water Supply

Martens, S., Kempka, T. , Liebscher, A., Lüth, S. und Möller, F., et al. (2012): Europe's longest-operating on-shore CO₂ storage site at Ketzin, Germany: a progress report after three years of injection. Environmental Earth Sciences, 67, 2, 323-334, doi:10.1007/s12665-012-1672-5.

Invited presentations

• Humboldt 5th Sino-German Frontiers of Science Symposium 2012, Nanking/China, 26.-29. April 2012, The Ketzin project - Europe’s longest-operating on-shore CO₂ storage site
• GESEP School 2012 (Deutsche Forschungsbohrkonsortium GESEP e.V.), GEOMAR, Kiel, 6./7. March 2012,  Ketzin - Europe’s  longest-operating on-shore CO₂ storage site
• CCS Summer Course - Technical University of Madrid. La Granja/Spain. 7 July 2011, The Ketzin project - Europe’s  longest-operating on-shore CO₂ storage site
• CCS Day of the Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute, Warsaw, 14 June 2010, The First European On-Shore CO₂ Storage Project at Ketzin (Germany)
• Humboldt 2nd Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Potsdam, 24 -27 June 2010, CO₂ Storage: The First European On-Shore Project at Ketzin
• Academic Research Strategy Meeting for UK Geologic Storage and Monitoring of CO2, Edinburgh, 7 July 2010, The First European On-Shore CO₂ Storage Project at Ketzin (Germany) - Status and Perspective