Function and Responsibilities:

Senior Scientist at GFZ, German Research Centre for Geosciences, officially retired

Research Interests:

• Cluster's Electron Drift Instrument (EDI) data analysis and interpretation
  
• Electric fields in magnetosphere and ionosphere
  
• High-latitude thermospheric wind circulation and its relation to solar wind drivers
• Auroral Electrodynamics, using radar as, e.g., EISCAT and satellite data
• Pulsations and Waves in the magnetosphere
  
• Numerical modelling of thermosphere-ionosphere-plasmasphere-magnetosphere coupling processes
  
• Geospheric Storms and Space Weather ascpects
  

Career:

1975 – 1983  Research Scientist, Central Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ZISTP) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Potsdam
1977             Visiting Scientist, Sibirian Institute for Earth Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Science (IZMIRAN) in Irkutsk
1983 – 1991  Research Scientist, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP)
1992 – 1996  Research Scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, branch office Berlin (MPE-A)
1997 – 1999  Research Scientist, GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam, preparing satellite project CHAMP
2000 – 2005  Research Scientist, Max-Planck-Institut for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching near Munich, working in the Cluster Electron Drift Instrument (EDI) team
since 2005   Research Scientist, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam

since 2016   Additionally part-time Research Scientist at Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Göttingen

May 2018    officially retired, (virtual) guest at GFZ

Education:

1971      Abitur at the Thomasschule Leipzig
1975      Diploma in Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Dresden
1987      Dr. rer. nat. in Magnetospheric Physics, Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin

Projects:

Research Boards and Committees:

1988 - 1991   Secretary of the National U.R.S.I. (International Union of Radio Science) Committee of the GDR
1993 - 2018   National Representative of Commission G (Ionospheric Physics) of the German National U.R.S.I. (International Union of Radio Science) Committee
2001 - 2005   German member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the EISCAT (European Incoherent Scatter) Scientific Association
since 2002    Co-Editor of the journal Advances in Radio Science (ARS)
since 2003    CoI of the Electron Drift Instrument (EDI) of the Cluster satellites