CV
Personal facts
07/1978 born in Jena (Thuringia, Germany)
Employment contracts
since 10/2012 Geodesist/Research Scientist at Lantmäteriet, Sweden
07/2012 – 09/2012 Researcher at Department of Geosciences, Uppsala University, Sweden
01/2009 – 06/2012 Postdoc at Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Canada
01/2007 – 12/2008 Scientific staff (Postdoc) at Physical Geodesy Working Group, Institute of Geodesy, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
01/2006 – 12/2006 Scientific staff (Ph.D. candidate) at Dynamics of the Earth Working Group, Institute of Geological Sciences, Free University of Berlin, Germany
01/2004 – 12/2005 Scientific staff (Ph.D. candidate) at Geo- and Hydrodynamics Working Group, Institute of Geophysics, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
Education
01/2004 –12/2006 Ph.D. thesis Determination of a consistent viscosity distribution in the Earth's mantle beneath Northern and Central Europe , Free University of Berlin, Germany
12/2003 Diplom (MSc eq.) in geophysics
01/2003 – 09/2003 Diplom thesis "Numerical Modelings to Barometric Pressure Induced Seismic Noise at Black Forest Observatory (BFO)" (in German), FSU Jena, Germany
04/1999 – 12/2003 Study of geophysics at Institute of Geosciences, FSU Jena
10/1997 – 02/1998 Study of geophysics at Institute of Geosciences, FSU Jena
06/1997 Abitur (diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission or matriculation) Grade very good
08/1991 – 06/1997 German elite grammar school for mathematics, science, and technology, ”Carl Zeiss”, Jena, Germany
09/1985 – 07/1991 ”Clara Zetkin” secondary school Jena, German Democratic Republic
Internships and visits
03/2018 (10 days) Visitor (invited) at Department of Earth Sciences (Prof. Patrick Wu), Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
06/2012 (4 days) Visitor (invited) at Chinese Academy of Sciences (Prof. Hansheng Wang), Wuhan, China
04/2009 (2 days) Visitor at Institute of Geology, Mineralogy & Geophysics (Prof. Andrea Hampel), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
08/2005 – 10/2005 (8 weeks) Visitor at Department of Geology & Geophysics (Prof. Patrick Wu), University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
02/2002 – 04/2002 Internship at ERCOSPLAN Ingenieurgesellschaft Geotechnik und Bergbau mbH, Erfurt, Germany
Projects
since 2020 "BIFROST2020", NKG activity, PI
since 2017 "EPOS GNSS Strain Rate Product", EU Horizon 2020 R&I programme, EPOS-IP WP10 member
since 2013 "Development of a new reference GIA model for Fennoscandia", NKG activity, PI
since 2013 "Development of a new horizontal intraplate velocity model for Nordic and Baltic countries", NKG project, contributor
2013 – 2019 "Development of the new land uplift model NKG2016LU including uncertainties", NKG project, contributor
2016 – 2019 ”Numerical modelling of GIA on a laterally heterogeneous Earth for the filtering of data from GRACE and its follow-up mission”, Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Fund 2016/17, HK$816,340, Co-PI
2015 – 2017 "European Gravity Service for Improved Emergency Management (EGSIEM)", EU Horizon 2020, Service Level Agreement, subproject "Task 3.8 - GIA (correction) for hydrology " (Model EGSIEM GIA LM17.3 DDK5; see also LM17.3 for global vertical deformation pattern)
2010 – 2016 Contributed to four reports for Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) of Canada
2005 – 2013 "NORDSEE", Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), project partner in subproject ”Sea-level curves in Northwest Europe for proof of isostatic subsidence along the German North Sea coast”
Memberships
European Geosciences Union (lifetime member)
International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (lifetime member)
Selection of other activities:
since 2022 Proxy for the EPOS Sweden Steering Committee
since 2018 Member of the EPOS TCS GNSS Consortium Board
since 2018 NKG Presidium Member
since 2018 Chair of the NKG Working Group of Geodynamics and Earth Observation (WGGEO)
since 2018 Science Team Member of the Drilling Active Faults in Northern Europe (DAFNE) project of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)
Reviewer (more than 130 reviews) for e.g. Science, Science Advances, Nature, Nature Geosciences, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Earth Planetary Science Letters, Geology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Geophysical Journal International, Quaternary Science Reviews, Journal of Quaternary Sciences, Boreas, Journal of Geodesy, Journal of Geodynamics, Tectonophysics, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Earth, Planets and Space, Advances in Space Research, Science of the Total Environment, Remote Sensing of the Environment, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Solid Earth, Earth Surface Dynamics, Geoscientific Modelling Development, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Computers & Geosciences, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Norwegian Journal of Geosciences, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Acta Geodetica & Geophysica, Sensors, Geosciences, Current Climate Change Reports, arktos, Baltica, Journal of Geodetic Science, Geodesy & Cartography, Remote Sensing, Geophysica, Advances in Meteorology, Geosciences, Water, Springer IAG-Proceedings, FIG Proceedings, Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften, Earth Science Research Journal, International Journal of Geoinformation, Historical Biology, The Scientific World Journal
Reviewer (more than 30 reviews) for e.g. NASA (4 invitations to panels, 2x declined), German Science Foundation (DFG), French National Research Agency (ANR), Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong , Dutch Research Council (NWO), Netherlands Space Office, Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education, Polish National Science Council, Central Finance and Contracting Agency Latvia (CFCA), Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR), European Geosciences Union (EGU), Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU), Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS), Durham University, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
PhD Committee Member/Opponent/Examiner:
- Carsten Ankjær Ludwigsen (2021): Sea level change in the Arctic Ocean. DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark.
- Nahidul Hoque Samrat (2020): Ice Mass Change and its Feedback on Solid Earth Dynamics in the Antarctic Peninsula. University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
- Barend Root (2017): Gravity Field Constraints on the Upper Mantle of Northwestern Europe. Delft Technical University, Delft, The Netherlands.
- Krzysztof J. Zieba (2016): Towards Understanding the Glacial Impact on Sedimentary Basins Using Numerical Methods. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
- Amandine M.-C. Auriac (2014): Solid Earth response to ice retreat and glacial surges in Iceland inferred from satellite radar interferometry and Finite element modelling. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Editorial Board member of GeoHazards (since 2020)
Guest Editor of Advances in Geosciences (2019)
Local Organization Committee Member of and invited teacher at the 2023 Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Training School at Lantmäteriet, Gävle, Sweden
Local Organization Committee Member of and invited teacher at the 2019 Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Training School at Lantmäteriet, Gävle, Sweden
Convener at AGU, EGU, CGU, IUGG and other meetings
Member of various IAG, ILP and NKG working groups
Contribution to the EU Interreg project LYSTRA
Contribution to Pail, R.; IUGG, Writing Team: Observing Mass Transport to Understand Global Change and Benefit Society: Science and User Needs, An international multi-disciplinary initiative for IUGG; in: Pail, R. (eds.) Deutsche Geodätische Kommission der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Reihe B, Angewandte Geodäsie, Vol. 2015, Heft 320, Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommission beim Verlag C.H. Beck, ISBN (Print) 978-3-7696-8599-2, ISSN 0065-5317, 2015.
10/2010 – 05/2011 Local Organising Committee of the Annual conference of the Canadian Geophysical Union
10/2009 – 09/2011 Faculty of Science Council of the University of Calgary
2002 – 2003 Geophysics Professorship Search Committee in Jena, Germany
04/2002 – 03/2003 Local Organising Committee of the 63. General Assembly of the German Geophysical Society in Jena, Germany
04/2001 – 03/2003 Elected member of Student representation in Geoscience at the FSU Jena, Germany
My Erdős number is 5 (W. Richard Peltier - James C. McWilliams - Irad Yavneh - Shlomo Moran - Paul Erdős).