About me
I am a postdoctoral scientist in the Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering at the School of Science and Engineering, Tulane University, at Soenke Dangendorf’s sea-level change team, since January 2025. I hold a doctoral degree in Geodesy and Oceanography from the Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut at the Technical University of Munich and a master’s degree from the University of Hamburg. My research focuses on disentangling the individual components of regional coastal sea-level change. In addition to climate-induced sea-level rise, a significant portion of relative sea-level change at the coast results from vertical land motion, including subsidence and uplift driven by various geophysical processes. To quantify these contributions, I integrates multiple observational techniques—including coastal altimetry, tide gauges, GNSS, and InSAR—with models of ocean and solid Earth dynamics. Using these constraints, I develop and apply statistical frameworks to assess the drivers and impacts of past and future sea-level changes.
Research Interests
Oceanography, Sea-level Change, Climate Science, Remote Sensing, Statistics, Software Engineering
Current Project
Disentangling Vertical Land Motion Processes for Future Sea Level Change Projections (VLM-SLC)
Marie-Curie Postdoctoral GF @Tulane University and @TUM
More Projects
Relationship between the Atlantic meridional overturning Circulation and Coastal Sea Level
ISSI Team led by Piecuch…
2026 -
Regional variations in relative sea-level changes influenced by nonlinear vertical land motion
PhD project at TUM
2019-2024
GitHub Projects
Recent Service Roles
Convener AGU25: Coastal Subsidence and Relative Sea-Level Rise: Assessments, Processes, Projections, and Mitigation in Natural and Urban Environments
Co-convener: Understanding sea level changes: global to local, from past to future, 2023, EGU23, Vienna, Austria
Convener: Coastal Altimetry Workshop, 2023, Cadiz, Spain
Teaching
Contributions to teaching the ‘Sea-Level Change’ course at Tulane
Contributions to teaching the ‘Oceanography and Satellite Altimetry’ course at TUM
Organisation of Summer school on Earth System Modeling (EaSyMS Summer School), Hamburg, 2018