Tasks:

• Support staff to the Helmholtz Vice-President for Earth & Environment, since 2011
• IOC/NEAMTWS - Co-Chair of Task Team "Communication Test and Tsunami Exercise, since 2011
• ILP - International Lithosphere Program, Executive Secretary and Head of ILP Office at GFZ, since 2007

• Earthquake and Tsunami research
• Subduction zone processes, e.g. Euro-Mediterranean, Sumatra, South America

• Guest editor to Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
• Referee for Natural hazards and Tectonophysics

since 8/2007 - Staff Member of the Scienctific Executive Board at GFZ

8/2005 until 7/2007
Member of Project Management of the GITEWS-Project;
„German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System“, GFZ Potsdam

1/1998 - Dr. rer. nat (Ph.D. ) in Geosciences at Free University of Berlin

4/1986 until 7/1993 - Studies of Geophysics, Geology and Minerology at Free University of Berlin, Degree: Diplome Geophysicist

7/1984 - Abitur (A-levels) at Freie Waldorfschule Frankfurt/Main