Research Interests:

• Science management, organizational development
• Digital transformation in the sciences
• Science dialog, policy and societal advice
• Geoecology: course of global change and consequences for the geo-resources soil and water
• Geomorphology: Quaternary landscape development and carbon cycle
• Geotechnologies: integrated sensor and monitoring systems

Career:

• since 2007: GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences;
  Head Operational Management | Executive Board (previously Head of Staff | Scientific Executive Board; 2007 - 2021) and
  Co-Director Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences (CAIAG)
• 2008 – 2010: Member of the Helmholtz Management Academy; Malik Management Zentrum St. Gallen
• 2000 – 2007: Brandenburg University of Technology, Department of Soil Protection and Recultivation
• 1996 – 2000: German Council of Evironmental Advisors (SRU) at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
• 1993 – 1996: University of Münster, Department of Geosciences
• 1990 – 1993: Dr. Thomas Gesellschaft Umwelt-System-Analyse mbH

Publications: https://www.gfz.de/en/staff/oliver.bens/opm