Vocational and Research Experience

November 2013 to Oktober 2015

Restorer at the German Maritime Museum, Institute of the Leibniz Association, Bremerhaven/Germany

Preventive conservation of the collection, coordinator of the working group "Bewahren" (trans. "Preserve"), coordinator of the case study EU project "COSCH"

Juni 2012 to Oktober 2013

Restorer at the Foundation Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf - Archaeological Central Workshop, Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein/Germany

Underwater Archaeological Project Fehmarn Belt. Restoration/conservation of finds from the Lindormen shipwreck

February 2010 to December 2011

Restorer at the Communauté d'Agglomération du Douaisis - Direction de l'Archéologie Préventive (CAD-DAP), Douai, Nord-Pas-De-Calais/France

Preventive and curative conservation of archaeological objects. Co-planner for the construction of a restoration laboratory

December 2009 to January 2010

Restorer at the University of Yale/USA, Saharan Archaeological Research Association (SARA), excavation of Tombouze near Timbuktu/Mali

Preventive and curative conservation of metal and ceramic artifacts

 

Research interests

  • Conservation and Restoration Science
  • Preventive conservation
  • Monitoring of deformation processes
  • Conservation and restoration of archaeological objects

 

Committee work and memberships

  • WG Conservation-Restoration of the Leibniz Association
  • Member of the German Society for the Protection of Cultural Property (DGKS) as State Commissioner for Bremen and Lower Saxony.