Function and Responsibilities:

• Senior scientist

Research Interests:

• Lithosphere-scale configuration of sedimentary basins
• Integration of geological and geophysical observations into 3D basin models  
• Gravity and isostasy of basins
• Thermal field
• Stress field and tectonics  
• Reconstruction of basin history

Career:

• 2017-present Senior scientist at the Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
• 2016-2017 6-months stay as guest research fellow at the University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences
  
• 2009-2016 Researcher at the Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
• 2005-2009 PhD student the Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

Education:

• 2005-2009 Promotion in Geosciences, Freie Universität Berlin and GFZ Potsdam. Doctoral thesis: „The Paleostress History of the Central European Basin System”
• 2001-2005 Studies of Geosciences at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Diploma thesis (in German): „Brandschäden an ausgewählten Naturwerksteinen“ in Kooperation mit der Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung, Diploma mapping thesis (in German): „Lithologische und strukturgeologische Diplom-Kartierung in der Sierra de San Luis, Argentinien“
• 1999-2001 Studies of Geology at the Philipps-Universität Marburg

Projects:

• "Integrated 3D structural, thermal, gravity and rheological modeling of the Alps and their forelands – INTEGRATE" as part of the DFG-SPP 2017 "MB4D Mountain-Building Processes in 4-Dimensions"
  
• "Subproject III: Subsurface temperature models of Hesse and reassessment of the deep and moderately deep geothermal potentials of Hesse“ as part of the BMWi-funded project "Hessen 3D 2.0"
  
• "3D lithosphere-scale density and thermal structure of the Central Andean foreland basins"as part of the DFG-IRTG IGK2018 StRATEGy
  
• "Thermal modelling for the Upper Rhine Graben" as part of the EU project IMAGE (grant agreement No: 608553)
  
• "3D structural and thermal models of the Sydney Basin" 
  
• "Kenya 3D: Rift structure and evolution" 
  
• “Exploration of geothermal reservoirs in the city of Berlin” 
  

Completed projects:

• “Lithospheric-scale 3D-structural and thermal models of the Barents Sea and Kara Sea region”
• “Basin Analysis and Petroleum System Characterisation of the Western Bredasdorp Basin (South Africa) - Insights from a 3D Crust-Scale Model” as part of the programme INKABA ye'AFRICA
• “Crustal-scale geological and thermal models of the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Arctic Canada” as part of the programme MOM (Methane On the Move)
• “3D lithosphere-scale modelling of the South Atlantic passive continental margins with focus on the South African and Argentine segments” as part of the DFG priority programme 1375 SAMPLE
  
• “Palaeostress analysis in the Central European Basin System” as part of the DFG priority programme 1135