DSM Staff
Prof. Dr. Jens Greinert
geologist, geochemist
group leader
Room: 8A-103
Phone: +49 431 600-2590
E-Mail: jgreinert(at)geomar.de
Dr. Kevin Köser
computer scientist
visual monitoring methods, underwater machine vision, photogrammetry
research group leader Oceanic Machine Vision
Room: 8B-204
Phone: +49 431 600-2566
e-mail: kkoeser(at)geomar.de
Dr. Timm Schoening
informatics engineer
pattern recognition & image processing
iAtlantic project
Room: 8A-210
Phone: +49 431 600-2320
e-mail: tschoening(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
ProBaNNtproject
Room: 8A-214
Phone: +49 431 600-2111
e-mail: dhenkel(at)geomar.de
Dr. David Nakath
computer scientist
underwater computer vision, differentiable rendering, active perception
Oceanic Machine Vision
Room: 8B-202
Phone: +49 431 600-2272
e-mail: dnakath(at)geomar.de
Dr. Marc Seidel
geophysicist
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
Dr. Xiangyu Weng
computer scientist
Oceanic Machine Vision
Room: 8B-202
Phone: +49 431 600-2445
e-mail: xweng(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. Nikolaj Diller
software engineer
MOSES project
Room: 14-004
Phone: +49 431 600-1686
e-mail: ndiller(at)geomar.de
Dipl.-Ing. Everardo Gonzalez
computer scientist
machine learning and data analysis
ProBaNNt and CONMAR project (before DIGITAL EARTH project)
Room: 8A-209
Phone: +49 431 600-2561
e-mail: egonzalez(at)geomar.de
M.A Torsten Frey
business economist
BASTA project
Room: 8A-010
Phone: +49 431 600-2599 / +49 341 97-33872
e-mail: tfrey(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
Mining Impact project
Room: 8A-010
Phone: +49 431 600-2594
e-mail: kheger(at)geomar.de
Valentin Buck
information engineer
BASTA project (before DIGITAL EARTH project)
Room: 8A-010
Phone: +49 431 600-2593
e-mail: vbuck(at)geomar.de
B.Eng Gabriel Nolte
mechanical engineer
REEBUS project
Room: 14-116
Phone: +49 431 600-1480
e-mail: gnolte(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
B.Sc. Anna Jäkle
electrical engineer, Master student
BASTA project
Room: 14-005
Phone: +49 431 600-1683
e-mail: ajaekle(at)geomar.de
Flemming Stäbler
information engineer
software engineer for data exploration tool "Digital Globe"
BASTA project (before DIGITAL EARTH project)
Room: 8A-010
Phone: +49 431 600-2593
e-mail: fstaebler(at)geomar.de
Thorsten Schott
electronic technician
Room: 14-116
Phone: +49 431 600-1677
e-mail: tschott(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
REEBUS project
Room: 8A-104
Phone: +49 431 600-2562
e-mail: mkampmeier(at)geomar.de
M.Sc. Jochen Mohrmann
computer scientist, PhD student
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
COMPASS project
MiningImpact project
Room: 8A-104
Phone: +49 431 600-2562
e-mail: igazis(at)geomar.de
M.Sc. Yifan Song
computer scientist, PhD student
large scale dense deep sea reconstruction
Oceanic Machine Vision
Room: 8B-201
Phone: +49 431 600-2297
e-mail: ysong(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. Patricia Schöntag
electrical and information engineer, PhD student
Learning Underwater Visual Appearance for Robust Seafloor Mapping
MarDATA
Room: 8B-201
e-mail: paschoentag(at)geomar.de
Student assistants
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
B.Sc. Anina-Kaja Hinz
geoscientist, Master student Geophysics
student assistant for multibeam processing and geophysical methods
Room: 8A-010
Phone:
e-mail: ahinz(at)geomar.de
Alumni
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
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)
