Professional experiences (selection, full CV on request)

• Head WG ‘International Safeguards’; Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-6: Nuclear Waste Management and Reactor Safety, Forschungszentrum Jülich, since 2010
• Head WG ‘Geomonitoring’; Institute of Mine-Surveying and Geodesy, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2008-2009
• Assistant professor (Juniorprofessorin) for ‘Photogrammetry/ Geomonitoring’; Institute of Mine-Surveying and Geodesy, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2002 - 2008

Current functions

• Scientific management of the German Safeguards Support Programme to the IAEA on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), since 2010
• Member of the IAEA Standing Advisory Group on Safeguards Implementation (SAGSI), since 2013
• Vice-President of the European Safeguards Research and Development Association (ESARDA), since 2015
• German Expert in the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification (WG 1: Monitoring and Verification Objectives), since 2015
• Associated Editor of the Journal of Nuclear Materials Management, since 2015
• Editoral Booard of Global Security: Health, Science and Policy
• Vice-Chair of the WG Open-Source/ Geospatial Information for Safeguards (OS/GI) of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM), since 2012
• Founding Member of the German Network Nuclear Disarmament Verification, since 2012
• Member of the International Policy Advisory Committee (IPAC), International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), since 2008

Education

• PhD in Geography, thesis title ‘Change detection and object-based classification using multispectral satellite imagery in support of safeguards verification’ (in German),, Forschungszentrum Jülich & University of Bonn, 2000
• Diploma in Geography (with minors Meteorology & Geophysics), University of Bonn, 1996