Curriculum Vitae
02/2012 to date
Head of Helmholtz Young Investigator Group "Capturing all relevant scales of biosphere-atmosphere exchange - the enigmatic energy balance closure problem"
Head of Helmholtz Young Investigator Group "Capturing all relevant scales of biosphere-atmosphere exchange - the enigmatic energy balance closure problem"
02/2009 to date
Scientist at KIT/IMK-IFU, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in the group "Biosphere-atmosphere exchange in complex terrain"
Scientist at KIT/IMK-IFU, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in the group "Biosphere-atmosphere exchange in complex terrain"
02/2006 – 01/2009
Post-Doc at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Branch, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in the Air Quality group led by Dr. Raymond L. Desjardins, working on energy and trace-gas flux measurements in various environments using aircraft and tower-based systems
Post-Doc at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Branch, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in the Air Quality group led by Dr. Raymond L. Desjardins, working on energy and trace-gas flux measurements in various environments using aircraft and tower-based systems
04/2002 – 01/2006
PhD at the Department of Micrometeorology of the University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, led by Prof. Dr. Thomas Foken; thesis: ‘Quality assurance for eddy covariance measurements of turbulent fluxes and its influence on the energy balance closure problem’
PhD at the Department of Micrometeorology of the University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, led by Prof. Dr. Thomas Foken; thesis: ‘Quality assurance for eddy covariance measurements of turbulent fluxes and its influence on the energy balance closure problem’
11/1997 – 04/2002
Diplom-Geo-Ecology (M.Sc. program) at the University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Foken; thesis: ‘Analysis of turbulence sensor intercomparisons with special consideration of EBEX-2000’
Diplom-Geo-Ecology (M.Sc. program) at the University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Foken; thesis: ‘Analysis of turbulence sensor intercomparisons with special consideration of EBEX-2000’
Research Interests
- Biosphere-atmosphere exchange over complex terrain
- QA/QC for micrometeorological measurements
- Energy balance closure
- Analysis of airborne flux measurements
- Large-Eddy-Simulation
- Ground-based remote sensing
