Curriculum vitae

Professor at the Ruhr-University Bochum since 2024

Head of the Working Group of soil science and soil ressources 

PostDoc-Phase at Justus Liebig University Giessen 2015-2024

Working at the Jan Siemens soil sciences and soil resources lab (including times of parental leave)

Promotion at the University of Heidelberg 2008-2015

PhD student at the Institute of Earth Sciences (including time of parental leave) with a PhD-graduation in 2015 in the topic of "Volatile Organohalogens from Fluid Inclusions of Rocks and Minerals" (Supervised by Prof. Dr. H.-F. Schöler, Environmental Geochemistry)

Study at the Texas A&M University 2004-2006

Student at the Soil & Crop Science Department, College Station, TX, USA to archive the degree M.Sc. with the work about "Smectite Clay Adsorbents of Aflatoxin B1 to Amend Animal Feed" (Supervised by Prof. Dr. Joe B. Dixon✝, Soil Mineralogy)

Study at the University of Hannover 2001-2004

Student of geosciences - Vordiplom (B.Sc. equivalent)

Publications

Memberships

Since 2025                  member of steering committee of DTTG

2024/2025                  Guest editor of Special Issue on Soil Mineral Analysis in JPNSS

2022-2025                  Elected chair of the commission VII soil mineralogy of the DBG

2021-2025                  Nominated as Early carreer clay scientist DTTG

2022- 2024                 Speaker of sub-project-unit “Umwelt” in LOEWE “GreenDairy” project

2022- 2024                 Member of SPP 2333 Soil Systems Working Group “Organo-Mineral Interactions & Carbon Sequestration”

Since 2016                 Member of the DTTG (Deutsche Ton- und Tonmineralgruppe)

Since 2015                  Member of the DBG (Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft)

Reviewer                  

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Sciences, Discover Soil, Chemosphere, Clays and Clay Minerals, Earth and Space Chemsitry, Environmental Sciences: Processes and Impacts, Journal of Hazadous Materials, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Environmental Sciences and Technology and others

Research Interests

As a soil scientist, I specialize in the fields of soil chemistry and soil mineralogy. I am particularly interested in the interactions between anthropogenic activities and soil functions and processes. The central research topics of the Chair of Soil Science and Soil Resources are:

1. Soils as regulators in nutrient and carbon cycles
2. Mineral-organic interactions and transformations in soils
3. Filtration and buffering capacity of soils for pollutants