Function and Responsibilities:

• Senior Scientist - - working group leader 4D coupled process modelling
• Lecturer at the Technical University in Berlin (TUB)

Research Interests:

• Basin-applied hydro-thermal-mechanical simulations
  

• Geothermal potential of sedimentary basins

• Fluid-rock matrix interaction in fractured systems

• Stress, deformation and Rheology
• Induced and natural seismicity
  

Career:

• 2014 - 2016  Research associate / Postdoctoral position GFZ Potsdam
  
• 2012 - 2014  Research associate / Postdoctoral position GFZ Potsdam
  
• 2011 - 2012  Project Leader - Internationale Zusammenarbeit in Bildung und Forschung mit Neuseeland.
•  2011 - 2012  Visiting academic scientist at Industrial Research Limited (IRL), Wellington NZ
  
•  2009 - 2012  Research associate at the University of Potsdam
•  2008 - 2009  Research associate at the GFZ Potsdam
•  2007 - 2008  Visiting academic scientist at CSIRO Exploration & Mining Division, Perth WA
  
•  2005 - 2008  PhD student at the Free University Berlin    

Academic experience - Teaching

• 2017 - 2017 - today Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin) - rocks & reservoir machanics
• 2016 - 2017 Universität Potsdam  “Geodynamik von sedimentären Becken”
• 2015 - 2016  Potsdam University  “Geodynamik von sedimentären Becken”
• 2014 - 2015  Potsdam University  “Geologie der Kohlwasserstoffe”
• 2013 - 2014  Potsdam University  “Geodynamik von sedimentären Becken”
• 2012 - 2013  Potsdam University  “Geodynamik von sedimentären Becken”
  
• 2012            GeoEn Summer School – geothermal technologies and modelling
  
• 2011            GeoEn Summer School – geothermal technologies and modelling
  
• 2007 - 2009  Free University Berlin „Grundlagen Beckenanalyse und Beckenmodellierung “
  

Education:

• 2008 Freie Universität Berlin: Dr. rer. nat. (mit Auszeichnung)
• 2005 Universität Mailand (Italien):  Diplom Physiker
  

Projects:

Ongoing projects

• Control of geological structures on the coupled fluid and heat transport (Groß Schönebeck & Brandenburg, NE-German Basin)
• 3D modelling of fractured geothermal reservoirs
• Exploration of geothermal potential for the city of Berlin
  
• ESM - Earth System Modelling
  

Completed projects

• GeoEn - Joint Research Project on GeoEnergy Research. BMBF grant 03G0671A/B/C
• Environmantal effects of Hot and Saline Spring Behaviour in the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) and the Northeast German Basin (NEGB).BMBF grant: Kooperation international (01DR12042)
• Regional models of coupled transport of fluid and heat
• 3D structural modelling of brandenburg (NE German Basin) and evaluation of the dominat control mechanisms for the present-day thermal field
• Stress and strain modelling of the Cebs DFG SPP 1135 projekt "Dynamik sedimntär Systeme unter wechselden Spannungsregimen am Beispiel des zentraleuropäischen Beckens"
• High performance computing in geology - Two phase (NaCl-H20) convective flow in sedimentary basins and the influence of salt tectonic.
  

Research Boards and Committees:

- Editorial Board member of the journal  Geoscientific Model Development  (GMD)

Awards:

• 2011 - 2012 BMBF grant: Kooperation international (nr: 01DR12042): “Environmental effects on Hot and Saline Spring Behaviour in the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) and the Northeast German Basin (NEGB)”.
• 2007 - 2008 Visiting grant (MDU DISCOVERY OUTREACH PROGRAM-pmd*CRC/iVEC) at CSIRO Exploration & Mining Division, Perth Western Australia. 
• 2008 Best Doctoral thesis at the Free University – faculty of Earth Sciences – and nomination for the Ernst Reuter Prize award.
  
• 2008 Dr. rer. nat. Summa cum Laude (mit Auszeichnung) - Free University Berlin, Germany.

Invited Talks:

• 2019 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
  
• 2017 Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
• 2016 University of Padua, Faculty of Geosciences, Padua Italy
  
• 2015 Weierstrass Institute for Applied and Stochastic (WIAS) Berlin, Germany.
• 2012 34th International Geological Congress IGC, Brisbane, Australia. 
• 2012 Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung UFZ Leipzig, Germany. 
• 2010 Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
• 2010 Weierstrass Institute for Applied and Stochastic (WIAS) Berlin, Germany.