DSM Staff
Prof. Dr. Jens Greinert
geologist, geochemist
group leader
Room: 8A-103
Phone: +49 431 600-2590
E-Mail: jgreinert(at)geomar.de
Astrid Ulbrich
European executive secretary
group assistance
Room: 8A-104
Phone: +49 431 600-2507
e-mail: aulbrich(at)geomar.de
Dr. Inken-Marie Preuss
environmental scientist
research coordination & group assistance
e-mail: ipreuss(at)geomar.de
Dr. Daniela Henkel
marine biologist
scientific project manager
ProBaNNt and CONMAR project
Room: 8A-214
Phone: +49 431 600-2111
e-mail: dhenkel(at)geomar.de
M.A. Torsten Frey
business economist
VAlidITy, ProBaNNt and CONMAR project (BASTA project)
Room: 8A-010
Phone: +49 431 600-2599 / +49 341 97-33872
e-mail: tfrey(at)geomar.de
Dr. Samar Ensenbach
ecologist/environmental manager
data analysis, stakeholder workshops, economic evaluation
CONMAR project
Room: 8A-104
Phone: +49 431 600-2506
e-mail: sensenbach(at)geomar.de
Dr. Marc Seidel
geophysicist
SAM project
(before BASTA project)
Room: 8A-209
Phone: +49 431 600-2561
e-mail: mseidel(at)geomar.de
Dr. Mario Veloso
acoustical engineer
development of hydroacoustic techniques for detection, monitoring and quantification of underwater gas emissions
(Thesis title: Determining the flow rate of free gas in the water column using hydroacoustic systems 03/2015-03/2017 )
Room: 8A-210
Phone: +49 431 600-2418
e-mail: mveloso(at)geomar.de
Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Tim Weiß
software engineer
Room: 14-004
Phone: +49 431 600-1648
e-mail: tweiss(at)geomar.de
M.Sc. Marcus Krüger
datamanager
CONMAR project
Room: 8A-104
Phone: +49 431 600-2506
e-mail: mkrueger(at)geomar.de
Valentin Buck
information engineer
ValidITy
(before DIGITAL EARTH and BASTA project)
Room: 8A-010
Phone: +49 431 600-2593
e-mail: vbuck(at)geomar.de
M.Sc. Anne Hennke
geologist
ValidITy
Data Science Unit
Phone: +49 431 600 2890
e-mail: ahennke(at)geomar.de
B.Eng Gabriel Nolte
mechanical engineer
Room: 14-116
Phone: +49 431 600-1480
e-mail: gnolte(at)geomar.de
Flemming Stäbler
information engineer
ValidITy
(before DIGITAL EARTH and BASTAproject)
Room: 8A-010
Phone: +49 431 600-2593
e-mail: fstaebler(at)geomar.de
Regina Surberg
geochemical technician (ICP-OES, GC, GC-MS)
Room: 8D-031
Phone: +49 431 600-2211
e-mail: rsurberg(at)geomar.de
Andrea Bodenbinder
geochemical technician (GC, GC-MS)
Room: 8D-031
Phone: +49 431 600-2211
e-mail: abodenbinder(at)geomar.de
PhD Students
M.Sc. Mareike Kampmeier
geologist, PhD student
multibeam data processing
CONMAR project (before UDEMM and REEBUS project)
Room: 8A-209
Phone: +49 431 600-2418
e-mail: mkampmeier(at)geomar.de
M.Sc. Jochen Mohrmann
computer scientist, PhD student
ProBaNNt project (before ROBUST project)
Room: 8A-010
Phone: +49 431 600-2597
e-mail: jmohrman(at)geomar.de
M.Sc. Iason-Zois Gazis
marine scientist, PhD student
(before COMPASS and MiningImpact project)
Room: 8A-104
Phone: +49 431 600-2562
e-mail: igazis(at)geomar.de
Benson Mbani
PhD student
semantic seafloor mapping
MARData
Room: 8A-010
Phone: +49 431 600-2595
e-mail: bmbani(at)geomar.de
M.Sc. Tim Benedikt von See
electrical engineer, PhD student
Navigation and real-time sensor fusion for automated observation and data assimilation,
MarDATA
Room: 8A-010
Phone: +49 431 600-2595
e-mail: tkupke(at)geomar.de
M.Sc. Christian Kanarski
electrical engineer, PhD student
Real-time Autonomous Hydroacoustic Bubble Detection
MarDATA
Phone: +49 431 880-6144
email: ckanarski(at)geomar.de
Student assistants
B.A. Sophie Baban
Environmental Economist
Master student Environmental and Resource Economics
Room: 8A-010
Phone: +49 431 600-
e-mail: sbaban(at)geomar.de

B.Sc. Rakesh Kumar Swain
geoscientist, Master student Marine Geosciences
student assistant for multibeam and image processing
Room: 8A-210
Phone: +49 431 600-2418
e-mail: rswain(at)geomar.de
Alumni
Prof. Dr. Kevin Köser
CAU Marine Data Science
Emmy Noether research group leader Oceanic Machine Vision
visual monitoring methods, underwater machine vision, photogrammetry

M.Sc. Yifan Song
computer scientist, PhD student
CAU Marine Data Science
Oceanic Machine Vision
M.Sc. Patricia Schöntag
electrical and information engineer, PhD student
Learning Underwater Visual Appearance for Robust Seafloor Mapping
MarDATA
CAU Marine Data Science
Oceanic Machine Vision
Dipl.-Ing. Everardo Gonzalez
computer scientist
machine learning and data analysis
ProBaNNt and CONMAR project(before DIGITAL EARTH project)
e-mail: egonzalez(at)geomar.de
Dr. Timm Schoening
informatics engineer
Head Data Science Unit
IDRZ (Informations, Daten und Rechenzentrum)
Room: 4/304
Phone: +49 431 600-2320
e-mail: tschoening(at)geomar.de
M.Sc. Karl Heger
B.Sc. thesis: Localization of remotely operated underwater vehicles by merging position data from both ultra-short baseline system and Doppler velocity log. Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, Maritime Technologies (2016); Otto Krümmel Award 2017
Marispace X project
Phone: +49 431 600-1825
e-mail: kheger(at)geomar.de
M.Sc. Nikolaj Diller
software engineer
MOSES project
Room: 14-004
Phone: +49 431 600-1686
e-mail: ndiller(at)geomar.de
Dr. Amir Haroon
PostDoc
DIGITAL EARTH project
Room: 8A-215
Phone: +49 431 600-2563
e-mail: aharoon(at)geomar.de
Lasse Petersen
Master's student, software engineer
Oceanic Machine Vision (before COMPASS project)
Room: 8A-010
Phone: +49 431 600-2596
e-mail: lppetersen(at)geomar.de
Dipl.-Ing. Peter Urban
electrical engineer, PhD student
hydroacoustics
05/2013 -06/2021
M.Sc. Mia Schumacher
hydrographer
team assistance for DSM group
DIGITAL EARTH outreach
01/2019-04/2020
M.Sc. Furkan Elibol
computer scientist
Deep Quanticams - Visual Deep Sea Mapping and quantitative Imaging using Cameras
Oceanic Machine Vision
07/2019-07/2020
Hongbo Liu
optical engineer, PhD student from Ocean College at Zhejiang University.
Underwater hyper/multi-spectral imaging years.
09/2016-08/2018
Dr. Cuiling Xu
geologist
Thesis title: Methane Seepages and Their Impacts on Landsliding on the Upper Bulgairan Slope, Black Sea.
10/2014-09/2016
Alumni students & interns
B.Sc. Anina-Kaja Hinz
geoscientist, Master student Geophysics
student assistant for multibeam processing and geophysical methods

Franziska Rupf
student physics of the earth system
Julia Zindel
Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Mechanical Engineering
Bachelor thesis: Entwicklung und Konstruktion einer mechanisch justierbaren Laser-Halterung zur Skalierung optischer Bilder am Meeresboden (2020)
Petersen Prize of Technology 2020, 1st Bachelor Prize

Inga Krel
Master student of Geosciences
Jana Katherina Kröger
Fachhochschule Kiel: project on a video summary for video material taken by underwater vehicles
Ole Wagenknecht
Fachhochschule Kiel, Informatik und Elektrotechnik
Bachelor thesis: Analyse und Evaluation einer Visual-Data-Mining-Erweiterung für eine Web-Anwendung zur manuellen Annotation von Bildern im maritimen Umfeld (2018)
Andrea Schütt
TU Munich
Master thesis: Towards hierarchical classification of taxonomic datasets (2017)
Bertrand Beunaiche
ENSTA Bretagne, Hydrography & Oceanography
Master thesis: Multifrequency approach in angular range analysis for habitat mapping in a mine dump area (2017)

Sergei Zorin
HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Master thesis: AUV-based multibeam echo sounder data processing: workflows and specific considerations for artifact removal by means of open source software (2017)
Eva Peschke
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Bachelor thesis: Modellierung von beampattern-/ positionsabhängigen Veränderungen von Gasblasensignalen in Multibeam-Rückstreukarten und daran angepasste Vorverarbeitungsschritte (2017)
Corinne Melchior
HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Master thesis: Geologic Interpretation of Multibeam Echosounder Based Bathymetric and Backscatter Data in the Equatorial Eastern Pacific (2017)
Shashank Shekhar
Visiting Intern working on the processing of data from the Bubble Box.
12/2016-02/2017

Hauke Müller
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Master thesis: Multibeam echo sounder simulation and calibration(2015)