Function and Responsibilities:

Career:

since April 2016: Professor in Interface Geochemistry, FU Berlin and GFZ Potsdam

since Oct 1st 2014: Head of  Interface Geochemistry group, German Research Centre for Geosciences, GFZ Potsdam, Germany

2007– 2020: Professor in Experimental Biogeochemistry, School of Earth and Environment, Univ. Leeds, UK

2005-2007: Reader in Geobiology, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK

2004-2005: University Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, UK

1999-2004: University Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, UK

1996-1999: Postdoctoral Research fellow, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Education:

1995 PhD: Aqueous Geochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

Projects:

European Research Council Synergy Grant "Deep Purple " Darkening the Greenland Ice Sheet" 2020 -2026

European Union HORIZON 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network "ICEBIO: Center for Glacial Biome Doctoral Network"

1. Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers: Dr. Runa Antony: Storage, dynamics and fate or organic carbon on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet (2021-2023)
2. Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers: Dr. Elizaveta Kovaleva Understanding impact cratering processes (2021-2023)
3. Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers: Dr. Anke Neumann Jenal Characterizing reactive mineral intermediatesformed during interfacial electron transfer (2022-2023)
4. NAWA Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange Fellowship: Dr. Lukasz Stachnik Association between aluminum species and glacier derived nutrients (Fe, P, Si) in suspended sediment from Greenland and Svalbard (2022-2023)

Diamond Ltd (+- every 6 months beam time allocation at the UK synchrotron radiation facility)

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (+- every beam time allocation at the ESRF)