About me

I am a passionate postdoctoral remote sensing scientist and geographer with an interest in polar and cold regions, particularly Antarctica and the mountain cryosphere. By using high-volume earth observation data and artificial intelligence I create a better understanding of long-term climate change impacts on the cryosphere and predict possible future scenarios. During my doctorate at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), I developed a CNN-based algorithm to automatically detect glacier and ice shelf front positions from SAR satellite imagery along the Antarctic coastline.

Fascinated by snow and ice, I currently work in the group “Polar and Cold Regions” at DLR on several projects to detect, monitor and quantify the impacts of climate change in Alpine and polar regions (e.g. AI-CORE, Lakes4Antarctica, AI4Snow, TerraByteDNN2Sim). I am also involved in science communication and teaching, developed an operational product IceLines, chaired sessions on AI and big data for cryosphere research at international conferences and received several awards for my work (e.g. DLR Science Award 2022, Helmholtz Doctoral Prize 2021).

In my free time, I observe the effects of climate change in mountain regions not only from space but also in the field as a mountaineer and by guiding tours for the German Alpine Club (DAV).