Function and Responsibilities:

• Research Scientist 
• Head of the X-ray laboratory (XRD/XRF) 
• Managing the clay mineralogy laboratory 

Research Interests:

• Fluid-rock interaction, deformation and alteration processes of rocks from the upper crust
• Influence of clay minerals to the seismic behavior of a fault  
• Diagenesis and low grade metamorphism in different geological settings 
• Dating fault zones
• The role of clay minerals in nuclear waste repositories

Projects:

• Relating physical properties from geophysical downhole logging data with clay mineralogy from drill core samples of the ICDP lake Junin drilling project (DFG SPP1006)
• Integrity of nuclear waste repository systems -cross-scale system understanding and analysis (proposal Zukunftsthemen 2017)