since 2020
Director of RIAG
Senior Scientist at Department of Environmental Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

2010-2019
Postdoc in the EnMAP Core Science Team / EnMAP Science Advisory Group

2010
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.)
Title: "Charakterisierung von Forstbeständen mit Hilfe von Laserscanning und Reflexionsmodellierung" ("Characterizing forest stand using laser scanning and reflectance modelling").

since 2005
Scientific staff at the Department of Environmental Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

2007 – 2009 
Scientific staff in Interreg Projects WaReLa and Regiowood

2005 – 2007
Bologna-Assistent Faculty VI

2004 – 2005
Student assistant at Remote Sensing Department

April 2004
Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Applied Environmental Sciences. Thesis topic: »Ableitung von Forstparametern aus hyperspektralen Fernerkundungsdaten unter Verwendung geostatistischer Verfahren« ("Deriving forest parameters from hyperspectral remote sensing data using geostatistic methods")

2000 – 2004
Student assistent in the departments Remote Sensing, Geomathemtics and Physics

2001 & 2002
Internships at Gesamtverband der Aluminiumindustrie, Düsseldorf, and UN Drug Control Programme, Vienna.

1998 – 2004
Studied Applied Environmental Sciences, Trier University.