Representative and coordinative tasks

Commitments and representative tasks

  • DGP (German Society for Planetary Research) Board member (Secretary & Webmaster), since 2025
  • ESA PLATO Science Team Member (since 2025); ESA PLATO Mission Consortium Member, WP 116 200 Mass-Radius Terrestrial Planets (since 2020)
  • Guest editor for ISSI Book on "Geophysics of Exoplanets" (2024-2026)
  • Chair of EPSC Board (2022-2025), Incoming Chair (2021-2022), Outgoing Chair (2025-2026)
  • Vice-Chair of EANA (2022-2028), before that EANA Secretary (2016-2022); Webmaster of EANA (since 2013)
  • DFG SPP 1992 “Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets” Board Member (2022-2024)
  • Guest editor for International Journal of Astrobiology Special Issue “Open Questions and Next Steps in Astrobiology in Europe - Celebrating 20 Years of EANA” (2020-2022)
  • LIFE (Large Interferometer For Exoplanets) Mission: Team Science co-leader (2020-2024) and member (since 2020)
  • Co-leader of ISSI working group and EAI topical team on "Towards a Universal Tracers Portal" (2021-2025)
  • Member of ISSI team on "Zooming In On Rocky Planet Formation" (2019-2022)
  • EPSC SOC Coordinator for Terrestrial Planets (2018-2021) and VOC member (since 2019)
  • Vice-Chair Diversity Committee, Europlanet Society (2018-2022)
  • Guest editor for Geosciences Special Issue “Planetary Evolution and Search for Life on Habitable Planets” (2018-2019)
  • Coordinator and initiator of the Outstanding Student Poster Award (OSPA) at EPSC (2017-2024)
  • EGU-wide coordinator of the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) contest (2016-2023), PS Division (2014-2025)
  • Member of ISSI team on “The Early Evolution of the Atmospheres of Earth, Venus, and Mars” (2016-2018)
  • WG co-leader of the COST action TD 1308 Life-ORIGINS and outreach team co-leader (2016-2018)
  • EGU Early-Career Scientists' Representative (2016-2017)
  • Early-Career Scientist's Representative of the PS Division of EGU (2014-2016)
  • AbGradE representative in the EANA council (2013-2016)
  • Foundation member of AbGradE network (2013-2016)
  • Coordinator of the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) contest of EGU-PS (since 2013)
  • Member and webmaster of the German early career scientists' workgroup "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Geowissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs" (2013-2018)
  • Member of the executive board of the Belgian alliance "Planet Topers" (2012-2017)
  • Member of the Germany-wide doctoral representatives Helmholtz-Juniors (2012)
  • Member of the doctoral representatives of the DLR (2011-2012)
  • Foundation member of the Interdisciplinary Early Career Scientists Team of the Helmholtz Alliance Planetary Evolution and Life (2010-2012)


Reviewer tasks

  • Astrobiology
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Astrophysical Journal
  • Biogeosciences
  • Communications Earth and Environment
  • Earth, Planets and Space
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Geology
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Geosciences Journal
  • Icarus
  • InderScience
  • International Journal of Astrobiology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets
  • MNRAS
  • Nature Astronomy
  • Nature Communications
  • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres
  • Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors (PEPI)
  • Planetary and Space Science (PSS)
  • Planetary Science Journal
  • Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Pure and Applied Geophysics
  • Science
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Reviewer for several national and international funding agencies incl. NASA, ERC, NERC and DFG
  • Different book chapters


Conference co-organization

  • EANA 2025, SOC member, Lisbon, Pourtugal, 21.-24. October 2025.
  • EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025, Chair, Helsinki, Finland, 7.–12. September 2025.
  • Einstein Conference "Exploring Otherness on Earth and beyond: Bridging the gap between natural sciences, social sciences and humanities", LOC Chair, Berlin, 9.-11. April 2025.
  • EPSC 2024, Chair, Berlin, Germany, 8.-13. September 2024.
  • European Astrobiology Conference EANA 2024, SOC&LOC member, Graz, Austria, 3.-6. September 2024.
  • Exoplanets 5, SOC member, Leiden, The Netherlands, 16.-21. June 2024.
  • ISSI Workshop on 'The Geoscience of Exoplanets: Going beyond habitability', OC member, Bern, Switzerland, 8.-12. April 2022.
  • ISSI Tracers Work Group Meeting, OC member, Bern, Switzerland, 25.-28. March 2024.
  • DPS-EPSC 2023, Co-Chair, San Antonio, Texas, 1.-6. October 2023.
  • European Astrobiology Conference EANA 2023, SOC member, Madrid, Spain, 19.-22. September 2023.
  • GeoBerlin 2023, LOC member, Berlin, Germany, 3.-7. September 2023.
  • Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC 2022), Incoming Chair, Granada, Spain, 18.-23. September 2022.
  • Lorentz Center Workshop 'Diversity of Rocky Planets', OC member, Leiden, the Netherlands, 5.-9. September 2022.
  • PFE-SPP1992 joint meeting '(Exo)Planet Diversity, Formation, and Evolution', LOC chair, Berlin, Germany, 12.-14. September 2022.
  • ISSI Tracers Work Group Meeting, OC member, Bern, Switzerland, 20.-24. June 2022.
  • PLATO atmospheres workshop 2021, SOC member, virtual meeting, 8.-10. December 2021.
  • Forum of ISSI Working Group ’Towards a Universal Tracers Portal’, SOC member, virtual meeting, 15.-19. November 2021.
  • LIFE Initiative All-hands meeting 2021, SOC member, virtual meeting, 8.-10. November 2021.
  • Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2021, VOC member, virtual meeting, 13.-24. September 2021.
  • EANA 2021, VOC member, virtual meeting, 7.-10. September 2021.
  • German-Swiss Geodynamics Workshop 2021, main organizer, Bad Belzig, Germany, 29. August - 1. September 2021.
  • Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2020, VOC member, virtual meeting, 21. September - 9. October 2020.
  • EANA 2020, VOC member, virtual meeting, 27.-28. August 2020.
  • ExpO (Exploring Otherness) Workshop, main organizer, TU Berlin, 19.-20. Februrary 2020.
  • EANA 2018, main organizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 24.-28. September 2018.
  • EGU Galileo conference "Geoscience for understanding habitability in the solar system and beyond", 25.-29. Sept. 2017, Azores, Portugal.
  • Astrobiology Graduates in Europe (AbGradE) 2nd Symposium 2016, 25.-27. Sept. 2016, Athens, Greece.
  • Workshop of the DFG Geosciences Early Career Scientists Work Group (AGN) 2015, 3.-5. Dec. 2015, Berlin, Germany.
  • European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA) 2015, 6.-9. Oct. 2015, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
  • Astrobiology Graduates in Europe (AbGradE) Event 2015, 5. Oct. 2015, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
  • Astrobiology Graduates in Europe (AbGradE) Symposium 2014, 10.-11. Oct. 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon) 2014, 27.31. Jul. 2014, Troy, New York.
  • Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon) 2013, 10.-14. Jun. 2013, Montreal, Canada.
  • PhD-Networking-Day of the Helmholtz Association 2012, 12.-14. Sep. 2012, Berlin, Germany.
  • Geodynamic Workshop 2012, 10.-12. Sep. 2012, Wandlitz, Germany.
  • Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon) 2012, 26.-30. Aug. 2012, Los Angeles, California.
  • Graduate Student Week 2011, Helmholtz Alliance Planetary Evolution and Life, 19.-23. Sep. 2011, Templin, Germany.
  • Doctoral symposium of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) 2011, 24.-25. Aug. 2011, Berlin, Germany.
  • Graduate Student Week 2010, Helmholtz Alliance Planetary Evolution and Life, 25.-27. May 2010, Wandlitz, Germany.