Academic Experience

Deputy Head of Institute | January 2025 – present
RWTH Aachen University | Aachen, DE
Institute for Mine Surveying, Mining Subsidence Engineering and Geophysics in Mining

Acting Managing Director to the Speaker of the Deans | April 2023 – February 2026
RWTH Aachen University | Aachen, DE
Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering

Research Assistant | January 2020 – April 2023
RWTH Aachen University | Aachen, DE
Institute for Mine Surveying, Mining Subsidence Engineering and Geophysics in Mining

Industry Experience

Mine Surveying Intern | April 2019 – June 2019
RWE Power AG | Sites in the Rhenish coalfields, DE
Opencast Mining Development > Mining Planning > Mine Surveying and Engineering

Production Intern | August – September 2016
ExxonMobil Production Deutschland GmbH | Lower Saxony, DE
District Gas West > Processing Plant Großenkneten

Engineering Intern | July – September 2014
FAM Förderanlagen und Baumaschinen GmbH | Magdeburg, DE
Opencast Mining Systems > Engineering Department

Education

Dr.-Ing. (summa cum laude), Mine Surveying | 2019 – 2024
RWTH Aachen University | Aachen, DE

  • Thesis: “Interdisciplinary concept for photogrammetric acquisition, georeferencing and visualization of underground cavities and infrastructures”
  • Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Preuße
  • Doctoral student at Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom with funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

M. Sc. (with honors), Mineral Resources Engineering | 2017 – 2019
RWTH Aachen University | Aachen, DE

B. Sc. (with honors), Mineral Resources Engineering | 2014 – 2017
RWTH Aachen University | Aachen, DE

Awards and Scholarships

GDMB-Förderpreis | 06/2025
Gesellschaft der Metallurgen und Bergleute e. V.
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Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom | 2020 – 2023
Scholarship promoting the ongoing doctoral studies
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Berliner Barbara Preis | 10/2021
Gesellschaft der Metallurgen und Bergleute e. V.
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Oskar-Niemczyk-Preis | 05/2021
Oskar-Niemczyk-Stiftung
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Friedrich-Wilhelm-Preis | 11/2020
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stiftung an der RWTH Aachen University
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Springorum-Denkmünze | 09/2020
RWTH Aachen University, Freunde und Förderer der RWTH Aachen e. V. (proRWTH)
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Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom | 2014 – 2019
Scholarship promoting the studies of Mineral Resources Engineering
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Carl-Hellmut-Fritzsche-Preis | 03/2018
Vereinigung Aachener Bergakademiker e.V.
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Memberships

  • DMV Deutscher Markscheider-Verein e.V.
  • DGPF Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung und Geoinformation e.V.
  • GDMB Gesellschaft der Metallurgen und Bergleute e.V.
  • VAB Vereinigung Aachener Bergakademiker e.V.
  • VSA Verband der Stipendiaten und Altstipendiaten der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit e.V.