Employment

• 2021–present. UFZ. Leipzig. PhD Student – Topic: Estimation of high-resolution soil moisture dynamics from the synergy of multi-source data (Prof. Dr. Jian Peng and Dr. Martin Schrön)
• 2020–2021. GFZ. Potsdam. Student Assistant – Topic: Verifiability of plastics in the environment (ENSURE) (Dr. Theres Küster and Dr. Mathias Bochow)
• 2019. PIK. Potsdam. Intern – Topic: Nonlinear regression analysis of damage cost curves for coastal floods within the 100 largest European coastal cities (Dr. Diego Rybski)
• 2016–2020. AWI. Potsdam. Student Assistant – Topic: Metadata management for long-term observatories in the Arctic (SPARC) (Prof. Dr. Julia Boike)
• 2016–2017. U Potsdam. Student Assistant – Topic: Analyses of marine sediment cores from Indonesia's coasts in the sediment lab to research fossil earthquakes (Prof. Dr. Anne Bernhardt)
• 2016. GFZ. Potsdam. Intern – Topic: Set up, run, and monitor laboratory flume experiments investigating the oxidation of organic carbon in river networks (Prof. Dr. Joel Scheingross)
• 2016. C&E Consulting and Engineering. Berlin. Intern – Topic: Analysis of geoelectric resistances in correlation with soil substrates

Education

• 2021–present. U Leipzig, Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences. PhD Student
• 2018–2021. U Potsdam, Faculty of Science. MSc Remote Sensing and Geoinformation – Thesis: Theoretical Potential of Former, Present, and Hypothetical Optical Spaceborne Sensors for the Differentiation of Plastics Using Hyperspectral Analyses (GFZ, Potsdam)
• 2013–2017. U Potsdam, Faculty of Science. BSc Geoscience – Thesis: Land–Atmosphere Interactions During Winter at a Permafrost Site in Northern Siberia With a Focus on Water Vapor Isotopic Composition (AWI, Potsdam)

Memberships

• Analysis, Integration, and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES)

Summer Schools

• 2022. Online. Climate Change AI Summer School 2022

Conference Contributions

• 2024. EGU General Assembly (ESA CCI Soil Moisture Community Workshop). Vienna, Austria. Talk (invited) – Topic: ESA CCI Soil Moisture Use Cases – Ecohydrology Application (T Schmidt, M Schrön, and J Peng)
• 2024. EGU General Assembly. Vienna, Austria. Talk – Topic: Mapping Regional Sub-Surface Soil Moisture Dynamics and Extremes on the Large Scale Through Data Fusion (T Schmidt, M Schrön, S Zacharias, T Francke, and J Peng)
• 2023. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, USA. eLightning – Topic: A Data Fusion Framework for Large-Scale Monitoring of Root-Zone Soil Moisture Dynamics and Hydroclimatic Extremes (T Schmidt, M Schrön, Z Li, T Francke, S Zacharias, A Hildebrandt, and J Peng)
• 2023. 2nd TERENO–OZCAR Conference. Bonn, Germany. Talk – Topic: Gridded profile soil moisture through artificial intelligence – Emulating profile soil moisture from cosmic-ray neutron sensing using covariates from high-resolution remote sensing (T Schmidt, M Schrön, S Zacharias, and J Peng)
• 2023. Helmholtz Changing Earth General Assembly. Karlsruhe, Germany. Poster – Topic: Emulating profile soil moisture from cosmic-ray neutron sensing using covariates from high-resolution remote sensing (T Schmidt, M Schrön, and J Peng)
• 2023. EGU General Assembly. Vienna, Austria. Talk – Topic: Soil moisture products underestimated plant-relevant dry-down during the recent drought in Germany (T Schmidt, M Schrön, Z Li, T Francke, S Zacharias, A Hildebrandt, and J Peng)
• 2022. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Fernerkundung. Halle (Saale), Germany. Poster – Topic: Intercomparison of current soil moisture products from remote sensing and modeling over COSMOS field sites in Germany (T Schmidt, M Schrön, Z Li, and J Peng)
• 2022. HIGRADE Conference. Leipzig, Germany. Poster – Topic: Intercomparison of current soil moisture products from remote sensing and modeling over COSMOS field sites in Germany (T Schmidt, M Schrön, Z Li, and J Peng)
• 2022. 6th Satellite Soil Moisture Validation and Application Workshop. Perugia, Italy. Poster – Topic: Intercomparison of current soil moisture products from remote sensing and modeling over COSMOS field sites in Germany (T Schmidt, M Schrön, Z Li, and J Peng)
• 2022. EGU General Assembly. Vienna, Austria. Talk – Topic: Intercomparison of current soil moisture products from remote sensing and modeling over COSMOS field sites in Germany (T Schmidt, M Schrön, Z Li, and J Peng)
• 2022. ESA Living Planet Symposium. Bonn, Germany. Poster – Topic: Intercomparison of current soil moisture products from remote sensing and modeling over COSMOS field sites in Germany (T Schmidt, M Schrön, Z Li, and J Peng)

Teaching

• 2023/2024. U Leipzig. Remote Sensing Products for Earth System Research. MSc Earth System Data Science and Remote Sensing – Topic: Applications of Remote Sensing Products (Prof. Dr. Jian Peng)
• 2022/2023. U Leipzig. Remote Sensing Products for Earth System Research. MSc Earth System Data Science and Remote Sensing – Topic: Applications of Remote Sensing Products (Prof. Dr. Jian Peng)
• 2021. U Leipzig. Material Cycles in Floodplain Systems. MSc Geography – Topic: Introduction to Python and data retrieval (Prof. Dr. Jian Peng)
• 2019. HU Berlin. Polar Geography. BSc Geography – Topic: Introduction to QGIS (Prof. Dr. Julia Boike)

Advising

• 2024. UFZ/U Leipzig. L Braun. Student assistant – Topic: Acquisition and processing of remote sensing data for fusion with soil moisture measurements using cosmic-ray neutron sensing
• 2024. UFZ/U Leipzig. N Tannhäuser. Student assistant – Topic: Acquisition and processing of meteorological data for biomass correction of soil moisture measurements using cosmic-ray neutron sensing
• 2023. UFZ/U Leipzig. N Tannhäuser. Internship – Topic: Time- and depth-dependent analysis of cosmic-ray neutron sensing soil moisture estimates using point-based measurements

Reviewing

• Journal of Hydrology. 1 review
• PLOS ONE. 2 reviews
• Scientific Reports. 1 review