2004 – present Professor of Geophysics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
1998 – 2004 Research Scientist, GeoForschungszentrum Potsdam, Germany
1998 – 2003 Lecturer, University of Potsdam, Germany
1996 – 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA
2003 Habilitation in Geophysics, University of Potsdam, Germany
1996 Ph.D. in Seismology, Queen’s University Kingston, Canada
1991 Diplom in Geophysics, University of Münster, Germany
2021 – 2023 Vice-Dean, Faculty of Geosciences/Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
2020 – present Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Germany
2020 – present Member, Forschungskollegium Physik der festen Erde (FKPE)
2018 – 2021 Dean, Faculty of Geosciences/Geography, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
2016 – 2024 Titular Member, Executive Committee, European Seismological Commission
2006 – 2013 Head/Speaker, DFG Research Unit FOR 703 (RiftLink)
2006 – present Member, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Africa (ZIAF), Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Seismic monitoring of deep geothermal reservoirs using vertical fiber-optic (DAS) and geophone arrays, 2024 – 2029, BMWK
Seismological observation of deep volcanic processes of the Klyuchevskoy Volcanic Group in Kamchatka, 2020 – 2023, DFG
Identifying Main Lithospheric Structures in the Eastern Alpine Domain by Joint Inversion of Receiver Function and Surface Wave Measurements for Seismic Anisotropy, 2020 – 2023, DFG
Remote seismic monitoring of deep geothermal prospects – project SEIGER, 2019 – 2023, BMWK
Characterization and correction of seismic noise generated by wind turbines – project KWISS, 2019 – 2022, BMWK
The deformation of the Earth’s mantle under the Alps and the physics of subduction-polarity reversals: constraints from thermo-mechanical modeling, seismic anisotropy and waveform modeling, 2017 – 2020, DFG
UNIBRA/DSEBRA – the German seismological contribution to AlpArray / SPP 4D-Mountain Building, 2017 – 2020, DFG
Assembly and breakup of Gondwana - seismological signatures in the lithosphere/asthenosphere system of Southern Madagascar, 2015 – 2018, DFG
Seismic anisotropy and discontinuities of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath La Réunion and the southern Mascarene Plateau, 2014 – 2017, DFG
Regional phase attenuation across the Zagros, 2014 – 2016, Missouri University
FERRY: Monitoring geothermal power plants by seismological array methods, 2013 – 2016, BMWi