since 2018 Vice Chair German Hydrographic Society (DHyG)

since 2018 Edtorial board "Journal of Applied Hydrography"

since 2016 Post Doc and Lecturer at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Marine Geophysics and Hydroacoustics

since 2015 Steering board member of the German Hydrographic Society (DHyG)

2013 – 2015 Post Doc at the Cluster of Excellence „The Future Ocean"

2011 – 2013 Research assistant (Post Doc) in the project ECO₂ and SUGAR II at IFM-GEOMAR, Leakage Monitoring of CO2 and CH4 using multibeam

2009 – 2011 Research assistant (Post Doc) in the project BALTIC GAS, mapping of Gas-Hotspots using sonar

2009 Doctor rer. nat. in Geophysics (summa cum laude), Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, title: Hydroacoustic and geochemical traces of marine gas seepage in the North Sea

2008 – 2009 Research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), Rostock

2005 – 2008 Research assistant (Ph.D. student) at the Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel

2005 Diploma in Geology/Palaeontology, thesis: A numerical heat flow model for analyzing in situ data of a new device for marine gas hydrate detection and stability determination (HDSD)

1998 – 2005 Studies of Geology/Palaeontology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel