Function and Responsibilities:

• Group leader "Fossil carbon & resources"
  

Research Interests:

Organic-inorganic rock-fluid-gas-microbial interactions

• Unravelling by imaging techniques on different scales
  
• Characterisation by applying org./inorg. chemical methods
  
• Quantification by applying chemical thermodynamics
• Cooperation with microbiologists
  

Career:

• since 2022 Member of Akademie für Geowissenschaften und Geotechnologien e.V. (geoakademie.de)
• since 2021 Visiting professor at Changsha University (China)
• 2014-2021 Co-founder and CEO of WiPS.consulting GmbH (spin-off from GFZ)
• since 2007 Senior scientist at GFZ Potsdam, Section 3.2 Organic Geochemistry
• 2004-2007 Scientific employee for CO2-Storage, BGR Hannover
• 1997 -2004 Ass. Prof. in Dep. for Petroleum Geology at TU Clausthal
• 1995-1997 PostDoc at Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde - IOW

Education:

• 2003 Habilitation for Geology, TU Clausthal
  
• 1994 Dissertation, RWTH Aachen
• 1990 Diplom Geology and Paleontology, RWTH Aachen
• 1986 Vordiplom Geology and Paleontology, University Bonn

Projects:

• Processes at oil-water contacts
  
• Influence of uranium on organic matter degradation
• Influence of deglaciation on black shale formation
  
• Organic-inorganic interactions during metal accumulation in black shale