Funktion und Aufgaben:

Scientist within the GEOZeit project

Wissenschaftliche Interessen:

• Subsurface storage
• Geothermal energy
• Carbon sequestration
• Mineral deposits
• Fluid-rock interaction
• Metamorphic Geology
• Zeolites
• Volcanology
  

Karriere:

• 2023- recent: Scientist, Helmholtz-Center Potsdam, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany
• 2022: Research Specialist, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, University of Iceland
• 2021 – 2022 :Director, Research Centre Breiðdalsvík, University of Iceland
• 2014 – 2021: Geochemist, Iceland GeoSurvey (ÌSOR), Reykjavík, Iceland
  
• 2013 – 2014: Director International Master Program “Economic Geology”, Department of Geosciences, University of Oulu/Finland
• 2012 – 2014: Lecturer, Department of Geosciences, University of Oulu, Finland
• 2010 – 2012: Postdoctoral fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
• 2006 – 2008: Research and teaching assistant, Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany
• 2002 – 2005: Scientific student assistant, Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany
• 2001 – 2003: Geological field assistant, Engineering company “Klipfel-Lenhardt-Consult“, Endingen, Germany

Werdegang / Ausbildung:

• 2009: Graduation Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany: Dr rer. nat. (magna cum laude). Title of PhD thesis: "Zeolites in fissures of crystalline basement rocks”
• 2009: Hermann-Staudinger-Graduate School, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany: 78.22 credit points (>20 credit points: above average participation)
• 2006 – 2009: Ph.D. study at the Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Freiburg, Germany
• 2005: Graduation Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany: Diploma (overall grade good). Title of diploma thesis: "Zeolite facies mineralisation in the Hvalfjördur area, Iceland"
• 2000 – 2005: Geosciences study at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany