GeoNet Volcano Science Operations Specialist at GNS Science, New Zealand: Development of fast anomaly detection and reporting for volcano monitoring to facilitate enhanced volcano unrest and eruption identification.

Collaborators: Nico Fournier, Steven Sherburn, Agnes Mazot

Postdoctoral Fellow in real-time Seismology at the Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich, Switzerland: Implementation, performance analysis, and uncertainty quantification of Earthquake Early Warning systems.

Collaborators: John Clinton, Georgia Cua, Carlo Cauzzi, Stefan Wiemer

Seismologist at GNS Science, New Zealand: Evaluation and implementation of signal processing routines for strong-motion records.

Collaborators: Stephen Bannister, Graeme McVerry, John Zhao, Jim Cousins

Postdoctoral Fellow in Ambient Noise Seismology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: Establishing the relation between ambient noise source distributions and ocean wave characteristics in New Zealand.

Collaborators: John Townend, Melissa Bowen, Stephen Bannister, Lionel Carter

PhD Student at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: Imaging New Zealand’s crustal structure using ambient seismic noise recordings from permanent and temporary instruments.

Advisors: John Townend, Martha Savage, Stephen Bannister

Collaborators: Fan-Chi Lin, Michael Ritzwoller, Honn Kao, Andrew Curtis

Diploma Student in Geophysics at Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany: Determining the Green’s function between stations of the Bavarian seismic network employing the correlation of diffuse wavefields.

Advisors: Joachim Wassermann, Heiner Igel

Working with Fan-Chi Lin, Yingjie Yang and Michael Ritzwoller on ambient noise tomography of New Zealand during a 6 weeks stay at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

Internship at LGIT, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France within the work group of Michel Campillo, applying reciprocity principles to the correlations of coda waves in order to find the Green’s function between earthquake locations.

Internship during the austral summer-campaign of the Alfred-Wegener Institute (AWI) in Antarctica: participation in radar measurements to determine ice-layer sequences and deployment of seismometers in the Kottas mountains for anisotropy studies.

Internship on the RV Polarstern: participation in seismic and aeromagnetic measurements above the Yermak-Plateau in the Fram-Strait between Svalbard and Greenland.

Invited speaker, 2010 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan

Best student poster, Geosciences 2009, Oamaru, New Zealand

Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Research Scholarship, Victoria University of Wellington,New Zealand (2006)

Lecturer for "Timeseries Analysis for Environmental Physics and Geophysics", undergraduate level, ETH Zurich

Instructor for "Tectonics and Structural Geology", undergraduate level, Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: "Advances and challenges for Earthquake Early Warning Systems", AGU, 2013

Organizer : Introductory workshop on ObsPy (www.obspy.org), a Python toolbox for Seismology

Reviewer : Geophysical Journal International, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Comptes Rendus Geoscience, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Systems: Unix, Linux (Debian/Ubuntu), Microsoft Windows

Programming: Proficient in C++, Python, and Bash; grid computing (Sun grid engine); client/server applications with Apache’s ActiveMQ; Ipython; SWIG; cytpes

Databases: PostgreSQL, SQLite

Version control : Git, Subversion

German: Native speaker

English: Fluent

French: Competent in speaking and writing